Schools should no longer teach skills that can easily be carried out by technology is surely a controversial topic. There is no doubt, innovators and companies have invested a lot of time, effort, and money into making gadgets and technology that will make learning more appealing, portable, convenient, and feasible for everyone. But I am representing the disagree side and I think that teachers should educate the student about multiplication tables, cursive writing, spelling etc. and all these must not be dependent upon technology.

Let’s first start with the multiplication table. Surely, it is very easy for a student who is 15 years old to use a calculator on their smartphone to do all the calculations and they need not remember the multiplication tables. However, I am agree with Kelly, it is essential for all students to comprehend basic principles of mathematics, as we would not want them to implement facts they do not comprehend, so I believe they need to grasp multiplication in aspects of groupings; for example, students must not just take lessons that 4 x 3 equals 12, but also understand that 4 x 3 is four groups of three, which equals three groups of four so that students could indeed pictorially perceive what the multiplication fact implies, which technology will not be teaching them.

Children should know their multiplication tables up to 10 x 10 by the age of 6, yet many still remember them up to 12 x 12. Students must also understand the meaning and operation of the tables. The curriculum, on the other hand, does not specify how this should be taught; alternatively, teachers must give a variety of methods for students to acquire their tables.

I believe that keyboarding has been introduced into the educational curriculum, although cursive writing is still required. It’s a long way from only a few generations earlier when typing was a high school elective pursued by young women interested in pursuing a secretarial career.

Nevertheless, data reveals that a writing tool and paper are still used for a significant portion of standard primary school classroom time – upwards of 85 mins every day. And, while tests may be administered using a keyboard or perhaps voice identification technology in the future, I believe that the mental advantages of learning to write using a hand will remain, As said by Durston also, writing is also improving reading skills, fine motor skills and it is good for hand-eye co-ordination. And study reaved that, who write notes by hands are more problem solver, critical thinker and good decision maker.

If youngsters were to merely use a keyboard to learn how to write, all that is needed is for them to perceive the outline of a letter and press it.

However, when you take lessons to manually write it, you’re synchronizing a lot of sensory and motor action, therefore you are thinking about how to shape the alphabet in a manner that facilitates more mental processing as compared to just visual perception. Learning appropriate letter formation aids youngsters in learning cursive, and being capable of writing confidently by hand provides mental advantages in addition to the ability to type quickly.