Cursive is the term we used for writing script or longhand. There's formal and casual cursive. There's looped, italic and connected. Everything we know about cursive, though, is not very important - it has left the curriculum of today's school classrooms as we really aren't writing much anymore.
What other skills are no longer needed?
reading paper maps
writing cheques and balancing a cheque book
telephone etiquette
sewing
ironing
Add these to the list:
long division or any arithmetic
metric conversions
finding true north
clipping coupons
remembering .... e.g. phone numbers
I asked the all-important question: What are the replacement skills that we need to learn now?
Here's one list I found:
expert data analysis
advanced social selling mobile expertise
multi-platform UX (UX is user experience) design
network and information security
creative thinking
It is the last one that worries me. It is not in the same class as clipping coupons. I am warned that the fourth industrial revolution is here next year - in 2020 - bringing advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. What will we need for these areas?
And then I also wonder: what skills will seem like clipping coupons in 2030?
Today's pictures are of the Kingston waterfront sculpture named "Time" - created by Kosso Eloul in 1973 to celebrate Kingston's Tercentenary. There was so much driving rain though - you can see the spots on the lens. There are too many to photoshop them away.
