Incorporating handwriting lessons can have numerous benefits for older students—here’s how to get them started.

Long, structured and sequential texts are valued by the academic world, sometimes at the expense of a more global vision. Imagination, visual thinking and subjectivity have little place in this ...

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

tends to give better grades than taking notes on a PC or smartphone. A study of the effects of handwriting such letters has revealed that children who do handwriting may grow up smarter, and the ...

Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...

Turns out, there is something that even artificial intelligence (AI) can't create. At a time when celebrity deepfakes run rampant and platforms host online games to see if you can spot a fake ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We love our kids’ first drawings. They draw before they write, so their drawings seem somehow miraculous in those early ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Handwriting is dead, long live keyboard skills! So says the Finnish education system. From 2016 handwriting will no longer ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school grandson ...