"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS (at least our FCPS elementary) is trending back towards having kids write things down, take notes on paper, etc., for this reason.

Added benefit of handwriting things - it's harder to use AI. Especially if assignments are handwritten in class. Many college professors are going to having students do handwritten in-class essays instead of long research papers for this reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS (at least our FCPS elementary) is trending back towards having kids write things down, take notes on paper, etc., for this reason.

Added benefit of handwriting things - it's harder to use AI. Especially if assignments are handwritten in class. Many college professors are going to having students do handwritten in-class essays instead of long research papers for this reason.

Until they realize they can't read half of the papers.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for posting this. I think it's been studied and known for a long time – at least a decade – that kids and adults process and retain information much better when it's handwritten versus typed out.

It's crazy that educators – who should know things like this – don't force or at least encourage handwritten notes. In my DS's middle school, no one is encouraged to take handwritten notes, ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for posting this. I think it's been studied and known for a long time – at least a decade – that kids and adults process and retain information much better when it's handwritten versus typed out.

It's crazy that educators – who should know things like this – don't force or at least encourage handwritten notes. In my DS's middle school, no one is encouraged to take handwritten notes, ever.

You can encourage all you want but that doesn't mean it will happen. My DS was graded on his in-class notes in private school. My neighbor says she is required to give her notes and copies of slides to so many students who have accommodations that she just gives them to every kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Send your kids to Catholic schools. My son had to hand write all of his class notes from ES up until mid HS. They could use laptops after that but some teachers still required them to rewrite the typed notes by hand for homework.

My dad was molested at a catholic school as were many many children. That doesn’t work for our family but Montessori also emphasizes cursive at a young age.

[Anonymous]

My uncle was molested in public school so there’s that. No public school for our family ever since.

[Anonymous]

Should we start posting the weekly public school molestation cases that pop up (pe coaches, bus drivers, teachers, etc). Yeah sexual abuse only occurs in Catholic school yall!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS (at least our FCPS elementary) is trending back towards having kids write things down, take notes on paper, etc., for this reason.

Added benefit of handwriting things - it's harder to use AI. Especially if assignments are handwritten in class. Many college professors are going to having students do handwritten in-class essays instead of long research papers for this reason.

Until they realize they can't read half of the papers.

At our public ES the 3rd grade teachers had a sit-down with the 1st grade teachers several years ago and told them to add handwriting back in the curriculum, because they could no longer read student work. It's not great, but it's been better ever since. We're one of the few that still does cursive in 3rd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full

"Our findings suggest that the spatiotemporal pattern from visual and proprioceptive information obtained through the precisely controlled hand movements when using a pen, contribute extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote learning. We urge that children, from an early age, must be exposed to handwriting activities in school to establish the neuronal connectivity patterns that provide the brain with optimal conditions for learning."

They confuse observation of increased neuron activity with results (ie task performance), but luckily there are dozens of fairly rigorous papers that provide the results side: handwriting is much better for learning.

In any case, this demonstrates how, for equity, the local school administrations need to redouble their efforts to ban pencil and paper from the classroom.

Yup.

This is a huge reason that we chose BASIS over DCPS. my son spends all day furiously taking notes. it really works.

[Anonymous]

The study is nonsense garbage. They made the typists type with one hand only, and didn't let them look at their writing.

[Anonymous]

This makes perfect sense. Handwriting is a fine motor activity that requires way more precision than typing.

As someone in the tech industry, I look around the classroom and see a lot of evidence that the sales strategies employed in the education market have been very successful. That does not in any way mean that these technologies have value. It just means there was budget available and someone made a sale. I would much rather see all this money go to teacher salaries or to programs that are proven to engage kids in a non sedentary/non passive way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes perfect sense. Handwriting is a fine motor activity that requires way more precision than typing.

As someone in the tech industry, I look around the classroom and see a lot of evidence that the sales strategies employed in the education market have been very successful. That does not in any way mean that these technologies have value. It just means there was budget available and someone made a sale. I would much rather see all this money go to teacher salaries or to programs that are proven to engage kids in a non sedentary/non passive way.

Wouldn't we all - except your sales people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes perfect sense. Handwriting is a fine motor activity that requires way more precision than typing.

As someone in the tech industry, I look around the classroom and see a lot of evidence that the sales strategies employed in the education market have been very successful. That does not in any way mean that these technologies have value. It just means there was budget available and someone made a sale. I would much rather see all this money go to teacher salaries or to programs that are proven to engage kids in a non sedentary/non passive way.

Wouldn't we all - except your sales people.

I don’t know! I get the sense that a lot of parents expect to see fancy tech in the classrooms and want to see more instructional time overall. Whenever I comment offhand about the overuse of screens and tech, I feel like I get strange looks.