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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writing or drawing by hand is a natural process that every child is fascinated by. Children tend to exhibit their artistic skills on the walls of homes. In school, they are taught to write the ...