{"id":248,"date":"2003-06-10T19:18:09-04:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T03:18:09+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2003-06-10T19:18:09-04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-11T03:18:09+00:00","slug":"cursive-cursed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/cursive-cursed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursive&nbsp;cursed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Presented without comment for your perusal:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><cite>[Founder of Google Larry] Page<\/cite>: <q>I&#8217;ve been waiting for them to start teaching searching, alongside spelling, in school.<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;I can tell you that if my kids didn&#8217;t know how to search the Internet, I&#8217;d be worried.  It&#8217;s a basic skill along with reading, writing and calculating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0104634\/2003\/06\/09.html#a1962\" title=\"Oh, you think you know how to search the Internet, do you?\"><cite>Ernie the Attorney<\/cite><\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshiftedlibrarian.com\/2003\/06\/09.html#a4085\" title=\"We Seem To Have Forgotten That Librarians Are Teachers, Too\"><cite>the shifted librarian<\/cite><\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p><q>They&#8217;ve got good handwriting now, and they love cursive,<\/q> Bolton says as her students filter in from recess. <q>But it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if they just walked around with their little keyboards and typed everything a few years from now.<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Rachel Konrad<\/cite> (CBS), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/06\/09\/national\/main557572.shtml\">Penmanship: A Dying Art?&#8221;<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/06\/09\/1924218\" title=\"Why Johnny Can't Handwrite\"><cite>Slashdot<\/cite><\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presented without comment for your perusal: [Founder of Google Larry] Page: I&#8217;ve been waiting for them to start teaching searching, alongside spelling, in school. &#8230;I can tell you that if my kids didn&#8217;t know how to search the Internet, I&#8217;d be worried. It&#8217;s a basic skill along with reading, writing and calculating. Ernie the Attorney,&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}