Handwriting is declining in Australia. Here's what it could mean for learning

Gavin Bannerman is the director of memory at the library, and says the story of handwriting is the story of communication for hundreds of years. "And that's actually considered to be a good thing because it allows the cognition of what we're working with to actually move through the visual processes, move through the physical processes of handwriting, and it allows us to have that time to think about the content that we're writing about." "Doing it on pen and paper is slowing down my thinking, and it's actually allowing me to just get some clarity of thought that I wasn't able to get with the busyness of the digital interface," she said.

Author: Ned Hammond

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