085: Why Your Students Need to be Writing More Than They Type
- Author
- Lisa Burns
- Published
- Thu 03 Mar 2022
- Episode Link
- https://sites.libsyn.com/259343/085-why-your-students-need-to-be-writing-more-than-they-type
Let's chat about teaching students to write by hand using both printing and the much-debated cursive. In our digital world, students physically write less and less every year and it turns out, that's a huge problem for their brains.
Here's the skinny...a recent study by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that physically writing created the best learning and memory of the material being studied. And that, as they say, is just the tip of the iceberg...
Listen in to find out more [and don't forget to grab the free Crossing the Midline Guide in the show notes]!
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