As digital devices have taken over society, "keyboard activity" is now often recommended as a substitute (替代物) for early handwriting, a new study notes. .
"Some schools in Norway have become completely digital," notes Audrey Vander Meer, the new study's leader, who works at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. . The human brain has developed to interact with the world in as many ways as possible, she notes. She believes that young children should learn to write by hand successfully, and, at the same time learn to manage a keyboard.
. Her new findings prove this. This is because writing and printing involve complex movements that activate more areas of the brain. The increased brain activity, "gives the brain more ‘hooks' to hang your memories on," she explains.
Think about it. The same movement is required to type each letter on a keyboard. By comparison, when we write, our brain needs to think about and recover memories of each letter. . And we need to control our hands to press a pen or pencil to shape the different letters. All of these use and connect more areas of the brain.
Along the way, these processes appear to "open the brain up for learning", says Vander Meer. . She expresses her worries.
Vander Meer also points out that taking notes by hand stimulates "visual note-taking". Rather than typing blindly, the visual note-taker has to think about what is important to write down. Then, key words can be "interlinked by boxes, and arrows, and supplemented by small drawings".
A. Young kids should learn several basic drawing skills.
B. It is believed that typing may be easier for young children.
C. Using a pen involves more of the brain than using a keyboard.
D. It has to be done by hand, not necessarily typing on a keyboard.
E. So learning through only one format—digital could be harmful.
F. She measures brain activity to better understand learning and behaviors
G. It is also necessary for us to use our eyes to watch what shapes we are writing.
