Why handskills are important

[ChuckM]

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46019429

 

[Mario Turcot]

That's NOW you tell me that  [tongue]

 

[zapdafish]

Wonder how using a gamepad / keyboard comes into play with this?  Seems like it takes alot of mental and hand dexterity and pretty good reaction times.  At best I am a smash the buttons kind of guy in the hopes I do something, lol.

 

[PeterJJames13]

Am I the only one who laughed when I read about "Prof Kneebone"?? [big grin] [eek]

 

[Job and Knock]

Wonder how using a gamepad / keyboard comes into play with this?  Seems like it takes alot of mental and hand dexterity and pretty good reaction times.  At best I am a smash the buttons kind of guy in the hopes I do something, lol.

But that requires very little strength and in reality only limited dexterity - certainly not enough to use a handplane or hand chop a dovetail or mortise quickly, accurately and repeatably. I'd love to see how a bunch of gamers would go on putting in a king post truss with something like 10 x 3in timbers. That takes geometry, trigonometry, spacial awareness, hand and power tool skills and a wee bit o' brute force

 

[Sanderxpander]

I think something like "general dexterity" only transfers in a very limited way. At least, I'm a professional pianist and I suck at using hand tools. I play some guitar as well but again, it's not like a 1:1 transfer of "quick fingers". In other words, if you want to learn to use handtools, use handtools.

 

[Kodi Crescent]

I've been telling my wife how important hand skills are, and she just won't listen!

 

[Milvus]

Interesting!

If using the game pad, mouse and keyboard were training enough for woodworking, my twelve years old would cut half blind dovetails faster than Frank Klausz, but the reality is that he struggles opening a potato chips bag