Comment by Barrin92
Apart from learning I'd also like to see more research into the effect switching to digital devices had on tactile skills. I used to mentor at a makerspace a few years ago and at least anecdotally, younger people seemed to have what we in Germany call "two left hands" (don't know if that's an English idiom too).
At least to me it seemed like there's a real loss of fine motor skills. Digital devices are pretty impoverished interfaces. Even if I compare my own handwriting to my parents, who learned cursive more seriously and wrote more by hand I feel like my penmanship is just worse.
> I feel like my penmanship is just worse.
You cannot learn everything. Is good penmanship worth spending time on? What are the other options. What if I gave you (8 year old you, your parents when you were 8, and you today - I want all 3 answers) a choice: you can learn cursive, piano, or go out to the playground. What is the best use of your time? My parents would have selected cursive, but on hindsight I can say it was a waste of my time. I always wished I could play piano (this is why I put piano in the list - there are millions of other options you can teach a 8 year old that we do not), but playground time is also valuable and would have appealed to me as a kid.