Controversy Over Hand Writing

Trubek wishes to provide her audience with a convincing argument that shows how handwriting in this time is inferior to typing on computers. In other words, her primary purpose is to illustrate the idea of focusing on typing automaticity (the ability to type without looking at keys) in schools over handwriting automaticity (the ability to write without conscious effort). This is seen when Trubek explains how if “…the goal of public education is to prepare students to become successful, employable adults, typing is inarguably more useful than handwriting.” (Trubek, 2016, para. 4) Trubek argues that if public schools are working

Leslie Slater is a handwriting enthuses who believes that the future of technology is crippling our art of writing and her strong evidence suggest that she might be on to something. The tone in opinion piece is pure and evidential, Leslie mention a substantial amount of studies and she really worry about good old fashion ink writing.

The research article “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking” was written by Pam A. Muller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer, and published by the Psychological Science in 2014. The article focuses on a series of previous research on the topic and studies with the goal of providing evidence to answer their two main questions. The first question is which one the two note taking strategies works better and increases academic performance longhand note taking or laptop note taking. The second question is how verbatim overlap (word for word) affects our learning. In the article, three studies were conducted similarly but as the studies were made something new was added to explore new aspects of learning.

According to Jame Doubek, in the article “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away”, writing notes by hand is much more effective than typing notes in class.He used an example of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s study that published in Psychological Science to demonstrate that writing notes by hand can be more potent than typing on the computer.First, Mueller and Oppenheimer suggest that with the development of technology, students are relying more on the laptop because laptops are small and and typing notes is much faster than writing by hand, so students love to type notes in class and always “try to transcribe all thing they heard”. However, the more words they copied verbatim, the worse

Teaching children handwriting has been an accepted and integral part of early childhood education. But the Common Core Standards that many schools have now adopted no longer require that handwriting be taught past kindergarten and first grade. Should such methods be abandoned? Is writing even helpful? Don’t we have computers to do the writing for us, so do we really need handwriting? Is writing effective? Maria Konnikova addresses these questions in her article What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades published in The New York Times on June 2, 2014. She cites the concerns of neuroscientists and psychologists that handwriting has long term benefits in both children and adults. Writing stimulates neurons in the brain to increase learning, memory, and

Writing overpowers in the success of students retaining the information that they are taught. It's easier for a student to retain information when writing it down individually rather than typing everything their teacher has said or shown. Even with that being said, high school students as well as college students, are most likely required to turn in typed assignments rather than handwritten or cursive written

Throughout school, students are taught to handwrite notes. In college, many students transition from handwritten notes to electronic notes, such as on tablets and laptops. In the article “Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away”, National Public Radio, or NPR, explains that although many students prefer taking notes on their electronics, handwritten notes have been proven to be much more effective despite technology.

Today, everything is electronical, so not many use hand writing anymore. Using computers and other ectronical devices is a big thing in our schools today. Most schools don't have paper back books anymore so they don't take notes from books. They type everything they hear.

The author’s mood throughout the entire article was pushing toward handwritten notes. In the selection the author states, “ The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective- because you can’t write as fast as you can type “ this means that the students who took handheld notes are forced to think more critically about the points written down. This note-taking strategy requires a student to focus more

When you write, putting a pen to the paper it stimulates the brain more than any other activity. You even work your brain sending e-mails, texts, and tweets. Studies show that when writing in cursive it improves brain development. Cursive helps stimulate your mind in the way of thinking, language, and working memory. When typing you have then absence to all of those critical parts of working your mind. The College Board even found that people/kids who wrote in cursive they got higher tests scores, than those who didn’t.

Handwriting has been taught to children for hundreds of years, but should the children of today be forced to learn handwriting? Although the history of things written down on paper goes back thousands of years, today our writing is mostly digital, and we record our thoughts on computers and tablets.

In the second article, the author states that, "Handwriting has taken a backseat to typing as technology dominates the way we communicate." but why should we be forced to choose one over the other? Being proficient in typing should not compromise your ability to read and write in cursive script, as both are extremely valuable skills to have in the twenty-first century. Though it is true that we are evolving into a keyboard based society, technological advancements and cursive script can co-exist, and for the better. The author of the

But, actually writing something down instead of typing it, has been proven to be more helpful. In one study, psychologists found that students learned more and understood what

Many different aspects come into play when perfecting your penmanship. From an early age children are taught all the same way to write. As people get older the fine motor skills required for legible writing become better and tighter. When children expand out to cursive, the flow and distinctive marks become more visible and present. The penmanship of a person is as unique as a finger print (Carroll, 2003).

(Bui in Aragon-Mendizabal 2016) This is because cognitive processing is shallower when using a keyboard. (Mueller and Oppenheimer 2014) Most typists tend to take notes verbatim, (Kiewra in Holz 2016) leading to very superficial levels of actual understanding. (Aragon- Mendizabal 2016) On the contrary, higher order thinking such as attention and memory are required when people take hand written notes. (Aragon- Mendizabal 2016) When taking notes longhand, writers must summarize, paraphrase, and relate concepts to one another in order to record the information in a timely enough manner. (University Wire 2016) Also, proofreading abilities are reduced on typed work, possibly due to the over usage of tools such as grammar and spelling check. (Lessien 2013) Success for students who hand write is documented not only for college students, but for young learners as well.