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[quote=Anonymous]Neuroscience shows that reading and writing on paper is vastly better for your brain than reading/writing on the computer. First, your eyes move differently on the computer. On paper, your eye moves left to right horizontally. On the computer, your eye moves up and down. If you learn to read by training your eye to read up and down, it is much harder to read long text (like a novel) on paper. In addition, you absorb less information when your eye moves up and down and you remember up to 30 percent less. Reading on a computer - an inherently "noisy" environment - also takes more cognitive effort than reading in a quieter space (like in bed with a book.)

Second, there is well documented evidence for the hand-brain connection. If you want to remember something, writing it out by hand is much better than typing it. The simple act of physically forming the letters with a pencil "engraves" it in your brain. Typing notes basically does nothing to help you remember.

Your kids are undergoing a great "tech" experiment. Generations from now, people will wonder why we did this to our kids - much like smoking rooms in high school. This generation will be the least educated generation since public schools were created. [/quote]

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