Friday, August 30, 2013

How writing by hand makes kids smarter

With the ubiquity of keyboards large and small, neither children nor adults need to write much of anything by hand. That's a big problem, says Gwendolyn Bounds in The Wall Street Journal. Study after study suggests that handwriting is important for brain development and cognition — helping kids hone fine motor skills and learn to express and generate ideas. Yet the time devoted to teaching penmanship in most grade schools has shrunk to just one hour a week. Is it time to break out the legal pad?

Read the full story here.

1 comment:

  1. Education is on a pendulum - what they think is better one year shifts the next year.

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