Leslie Slater The Vanishing Art Of Handwriting

The issue of whether or not handwriting will become obsolete has gained increasing prominence in Australian media recently after the education minsters’ agreement that in 2016, the State wide Naplan test will be done online. In her opinion piece titled, “The vanishing art of handwriting”, a supplement magazine for a weekend paper, Leslie Slater expresses her concern that the growing use of technologies intended to replace traditional “pen and paper” could mean that handwriting will eventually, no longer be an “everyday skill.” Targeted at adults, mainly consisting of parents, Slater urges that writing by hand should continue to be encouraged in schools or else handwriting will indeed one day, “vanish.”
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