Nostalgia Thread

>>59513265
what is this anon

>>59513084
>to work on essays and shit.

Sure thing Anon, our school had these too. They weren't for essays, they were for students whose handwriting was so atrocious it was completely unreadable by anything approaching a human being.

Sorry to hear about your disability.

>>59513084
I had one of those, but it was more I was too lazy to learn how to write better and american education never cared enough to make me improve it.

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>>59513349
Ok assfag. It's not like they gave them to the whole class or anything, you're right, it was just me.

>>59513325
it's a postcard

>>59513365
Literally from the Wikipedia entry on them:

>AlphaSmarts were very popular in schools for their affordability and durability. Elementary schools and high schools used them; and they were particularly popular among special education departments for use by students with graphomotor challenges.

>they were particularly popular among special education departments for use by students with graphmotor challenges.

>for use by students with graphmotor challgenges.

>graphmotor challenges.

OP confirmed for not being able to write for shit

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>>59513431
Y'all are retarded
>>59513349
Ur also autistic

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>>59513431

Well good job on being able to read anon.

These were given to the whole class from 4th-6th grade to use at home to work on essays.

When we got back to class the class would plug them into the macs and transfer their papers to the computer lab computers.

The school only gave laptops to 7th and 8th graders.

>>59513431
Or the school doesn't want to bother spend the time to improve their handwriting and just give them that so they can continue treating education as an assembly line.

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>>59513499
This and really pushing the "learn to type" agenda. My school was big on that. I think they were trying to try and compensate for being a tiny private christian middle school

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Get on my level.

>>59513499
I grew up learning cursive, and having to hand essays in in hand-written format to some teachers (with the title underlined in red pen, of course), and I think handwriting is almost a complete waste of time now. There's literally no reason to learn anything beyond signing your name in cursive.

If you know the alphabet, that's good enough. I can hand write and still print shit out when I write stuff down because the extra time it takes to read it after really isn't worth it.

>grumblegrumble fuckin kids these days

there's a reason kids aren't taught how to use slide rules anymore (graphing calculators are far superior), or how to look stuff up in encyclopedias (we have the internet), how to use balancing scales (we have digital scales), etc. Its a waste of time and not relevant anymore

>>59513084
Was that because you are retarded?

>>59513431
>I don't know what "particularly" means: the post


>>59513499
>>59513533
>>59513635
If the student's difficulty with writing is due to a physical disability, rather than their earlier schooling being shit, it makes more sense to just let them type, rather than try to teach them to write. No matter what you do, when those people grow up, 99.9% of the writing they do (basically everything apart from signing their name) is going to be on the computer anyway, so trying to get them to write efficiently by hand is pretty pointless.