Our research shows children produce better pieces of writing by hand. But they need keyboard skills too

Our research on children in early primary years, show they are better are writing with a pen or pencil than a keyboard. Credit: Cottonbro Studio/ Pexels, CC BY Children today are growing up surrounded by technology. So it’s easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard. But our research suggests this is not necessarily true. We need to actively teach students to be able to type as well as write using paper and pen or pencil. Our research Our research team has published two recent Read More