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New research indicates that writing by hand, as opposed to using a keyboard, enhances learning and memory.

The study suggests that brain connectivity patterns during handwriting are more elaborate and crucial for memory formation and encoding new information.
The study suggests that the careful forming of letters during handwriting, involving precise hand movements and sensory engagement, contributes extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote learning.
The researchers recommend the importance of incorporating handwriting in education, emphasizing the benefits of pens and pencils.
When children learn to write by hand, they not only learn to read more quickly, but they are better able to generate ideas and retain information. Berninger (cited in Konnikova, 2014) found when children wrote text by hand, they produced more words, more quickly than on the keyboard, but they also expressed more ideas.