We so uninhabated to write in Penna, that when we do it the wrist is indulged after a few minutes: but with all the technology and ease of writing we have nowadays, Is it really necessary that children learn to write by hand? The answer is Yes: as evidenced by a study published on Frontiers in PsychologyIndeed, Handing by hand activates a greater number of brain cells, increasing our ability to learn a subject.
“We have noticed a greater neural activity in the regions of the brain that deal with memory and interpretation of new information, and this activity plays a key role in the learning process,” explains the author Audrey Van der Meer.
Simpler to the PC. Write by hand, therefore, makes the brain work more: And if we think about it it is logical, since taking a pen in your hand and tracing signs on a sheet, paying attention to each letter we write, it is more demanding than pressing the buttons of a keyboard.
“There Hand writing involves more senses: On the keyboard we repeat the same movements of the fingers, regardless of the letter we want to type », explains Ruud Van de Weel, the other author of the study.
Reading difficulties. If therefore there was a need for a further reason to avoid the use of tablets and PCs for children, we found it: as the researchers point out, the little ones in preschool they need to do Activities that develop fine motor skillshow to write, draw, color or compose puzzles.
Furthermore, children who learn to write to the computer before they often have difficulty distinguishing the most similar letters between them – such as “B” and “D” – because they have never tried to trace them. The expert’s message is clear: “Children must first learn to write by hand, to be able to form neural networks underlying learning».
