Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
Re tweeting: I'm not sure what you meant, shootingstar, but in Norway at least debate on twitter is by no means mindless. It's a political playground.
Sure, if tweeting is used as quick disseminator link to more extensive article on the 'Net, it's helpful. Certainly during Obama's political campaign and even here in the city where I live, the mayor's first election win, was partially due to his team's reach to a huge younger set of electorate via twitter. First day in office, the mayor sometimes tweeted himself or his staff helped.. It's good but one needs yet another few daily hrs. of staff set aside for careful tweets, in addition to other regular media channels.

Cursive handwriting: If that is subsumed over computer typewriting, then it would be helpful to child to learn something detailed in with using their hands that's more manual and takes patience to ...create. This is another reason why we should always welcome all the younger generation uptake on DYI skills....traditional skills of sewing, knitting, gardening, woodworking, machine repair, word games with others, making perogies (a finer cooking skill) or just chopping up veggies manually, making your own meals..these are skills to my mind, that slow down a person and for a child, teaches them discipline without technology, to master something that demands focused attention, eye-hand coordination and above all, patience, plus detailed problem-solving. .WITHOUT computer technology.

Kind of like taking patience to walk for 15 min. to a store nearby to buy something and the weather is great, you have time ...instead of jumping into a car for such a short car ride. Healthier, cheaper....