{"id":19087,"date":"2022-10-30T21:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T09:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kamiapp.com\/?p=17922"},"modified":"2022-12-14T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:37:50","slug":"importance-of-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.kamiapp.com\/blog\/importance-of-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of Handwriting in the Modern Classroom | Logitech"},"content":{"rendered":"
The need to flex our writing skills with physical pen and paper is becoming increasingly rare.<\/p>\n
So, why do we still bother teaching handwriting in schools? Technology gives us interactive, instant letter formation through typing and apps. Isn\u2019t it obvious that the next generation will need even less handwriting practice than we did?<\/p>\n
If writing was only about recording information as fast as possible, that might be the case.
\nBut research shows us it\u2019s definitely not.<\/p>\n
Teaching young learners from pre-k onwards to form letters is not about speed (as any kindergarten teacher will tell you!).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Beyond the educational benefit, the fine motor skills that learners develop through handwriting practice are something that typing does not provide. The pencil grip is applicable to a multitude of modern-day tools, from soldering in electronics to fine arts and many medical devices.<\/p>\n
The act of taking notes by hand, as opposed to typing has been studied by multiple occupational therapists. Not only do learners who form letters by hand maintain a better level of legibility, their ability to recall lesson content improves over learners who type notes. Amazingly, these learners had better recall even if they didn\u2019t reread their notes afterward. This means that the motor pattern of handwriting itself helps us remember concepts. How cool is that!?<\/p>\n
So how can we combine the benefits that handwriting skills provide with the interactive technology that we see in modern learning environments?<\/p>\n
Enter the stylus. A tool for developing and maintaining handwriting skills on a touchscreen device instead of traditional pen and paper. There are dozens on the market, but our favorites are the Logitech Pen for USI-enabled Chromebooks<\/a> and the Logitech Crayon for iPads<\/a> (2018 and later), which were designed and tested with students in mind. They are light, pixel-precise, and, perhaps most importantly for the classroom, durable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n As you already know, Kami works well with a keyboard and mouse. But adding a Logitech stylus to your handwriting resources can help young learners build their handwriting skills in a modern environment. Now you can check remote learners\u2019 handwritten assignments without having them hold pages up to the camera; their writing will appear in collaborative Kami documents!<\/p>\n Here are some activities for handwriting practice you can introduce to your learners to develop those fine motor skills and ignite their development. Even just one or two of these will make a great supplement to your lesson plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Recognizing the benefits that well-developed handwriting skills provide to learners of all ages is integral to maintaining handwriting instruction in our schools. You\u2019ll be surprised at how much more interaction your learners will demonstrate when they\u2019re able to apply handwriting skills to your lesson plans.<\/p>\n Perhaps there is still a place for cursive in the age of keyboards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The need to flex our writing skills with physical pen and paper is becoming increasingly rare. So, why do we still bother teaching handwriting in schools? Technology gives us interactive, instant letter formation through typing and apps. Isn\u2019t it obvious that the next generation will need even less handwriting practice than we did? If writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[27,28,29],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n