The Globe and Mail

Learning the lost art of cursive writing

With a pencil still in hand, eight-year-old Mitchell Cait-Goldenthal takes a break from the handwriting exercise he’s working on to explain why it’s important to have good penmanship. “When you’re ...
Psychology Today

Learning to Type Before Learning to Write?

One of the most important and simplest lessons in preschool and Kindergarten are the ABCs. At an early age, children learn to recognize the letters, then to print them, in both lowercase and uppercase ...

Students spend more time learning to write on paper than computers—does this need to change?

Similar to previous overseas studies, teachers in our study spent significantly more time teaching paper-based writing than ...
KQED

Handwriting Helps Kids Learn. Here’s How to Make the Most of It

In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...
The Conversation

5 reasons kids still need to learn handwriting (no, AI has not made it redundant)

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English and the Australian Research Council. Maria Nicholas receives funding from The Australian Research Council ...
The Straits Times

Learning to write by hand is vital for kids, but they need keyboard skills too

Children today are growing up surrounded by technology. So it is easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard. But our research suggests this is not necessarily true. We need ...
Yahoo

Scientists use Matrix-style learning to ‘write’ skills into human brain noninvasively

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester, Yale University, and Princeton University has made a big stride in neuroscience. They have shown a method to induce learning through the direct ...
The Independent

Five surprising ways to help your child learn to write

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Inside Higher Ed

Eliminate the Required First-Year Writing Course

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I have a Ph.D. in English, more specifically, in rhetoric and composition. My decades of academic life have been occupied by the study and teaching of ...