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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid “learned” her math facts on a computer and then I had to teach them to her a couple years later. There is a hand to brain connection that doesn’t happen on a computer. You can learn to type when you are older but primary is about acquiring the basic skills to learn anything and hand to brain is the most important one.[/quote]

Everyone has a different learning style but I agree that for many, writing things down is the best. It definitely is for me - I still take notes the old fashioned way, with some people looking at me like I am crazy. But that is how I retain information. When I was in business school, for many classes we could have a one page cheat sheet for exams, and the process of sorting through information then handwriting it on the sheet of paper was all the studying I needed to do well.

That being said, for classes where kids are writing papers of more than a few sentences, starting in late elementary or early middle school, typing is critical. It makes it much easier to edit and learning to think this way is critical for professional success. My child insisted on handwriting and we had to force them to type these essays as erasing is just not practical, and it is hard to move things around.[/quote]

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