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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I prefer that my kid learns to write, compose and take notes on a screen which is what he'll be doing in college and in real life.  No one writes with a pencil and paper anymore except kids in early elementary who are being taught to write their letters.  The sooner they learn to type the better.

Bring on the chrome books!

- signed a mom who hasn't written anything by hand in years other my signiture.

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See, that's the thing: they WILL learn how to write, compose and take notes on a screen no matter what.  They'll do plenty of it at DCI even if they only take half their classes on tablets.  The idea that they somehow would not learn that is really odd and pretty much impossible.

Balance means both.  And that's fine that you haven't written anything by hand in years - the fact that you're a mom still means you did once learn how to do it and you have no idea of the benefits vs. costs of kids today NOT learning writing by hand or reading physical books.  When I started law school, even though there was Lexis and Westlaw and all these easy ways to do legal research online, the school FORBID us to use online legal research our first year as 1Ls and we had to learn to research everything by book in the law library.  They explained it very clearly: they felt that was the best way for us to understand the way case law is organized, not just literally where is it in the library, but how do you follow an argument or a situation to find out what happened in the string of cases, how do you craft an argument and find the case law to support it, and how is legal information organized.  Sure you can just plug in key words or the name of a case online, but you don't learn all the logical underpinnings of it that way.

That is a long way of saying: even then, where there was an easier, more "modern" way to do the work, there was a clear and understood benefit to learning the paper way, and my school still has that policy and is a top 15 law school nationally.  And somehow we still all graduated very skilled at online legal research.  Both are possible.[/quote]

When did you go to law school?  I graduated in the late 90ties from a top ten law school and they taught us how to look up stuff in a library one time.  We never had to do it again and I have never had to do it since.  I don't remember how anymore either.  If you talk to current law students, no one does legal research aside from Westlaw and Lexis anymore.

Even when I went to law school, it was all laptops.  No one writes by hand except the people who are 40+.

I don't remember the last time I read anything on paper, book or newspaper. [/quote]

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