Professor says kids no longer need to learn spelling and grammar because of smartphones:
"Several skills that every kid once learned in school are going the way of the dodo in
a hurry. Diagramming sentences is practically an extinct art, for example. Cursive
handwriting and memorized multiplication tables look to be swiftly headed that way.
Apparently, the next thing that kids will no longer need to learn is spelling and
grammar.
Sugata Mitra, a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University in
northeast England, announced that traditional language rules are out of fashion,
reports the Daily Mail. Kids don’t need to waste time on those things, see. State-
of-the-art computers and mobile phones can make the necessary corrections."
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