The Importance Of Handwriting

For some people handwriting is an art, a form to express themselves, the form to put ideas-notes in a paper; throughout the years handwriting has become less important in education, relationships, jobs. The development of technology affects the art of handwriting; many people prefer to type, because is easier for them, or because they don’t like their handwriting. Many people will think that typing is the best for them, but handwriting is very important for people 's creativity, memory, and even their relationships or identities. Handwriting has become vanished due to the development of technology and that people don’t know how to keep both, handwriting and typing. To understand the importance of handwriting in our society, the understanding

When children improve their abilities in handwriting this benefits them on the understanding of complex words in texts, on retaining more information and having inferences or connecting patterns to develop new solutions for new problems and make connections between them. Cahill emphasizes “handwriting is closely linked to academic achievement, especially composition and literacy skills” (1). Many teachers can see throughout the years how the skills of handwriting in students are getting low, due to the use of technology as a “complement” for their writing and reading assignments. Technology can be a useful source for students because is easier to get information and is just one movement they do, press a button, but it also can be a distraction for them. Technology brings the access to a lot of information at the same time, but the retention of this information is not easy, because children are used to having everything that they need just searching, their brain is used to getting information copying the same or paraphrase, without comprehending and analysing the real significance of their

Some may believe that handwriting is a slow process, and that typing will benefit them more because is easier to find the information, to keep information. Many people think that typing benefits children education because is they type faster, they will have more ideas to write about and more time to improve their ideas, also the corrections of assignments are easier because the teacher can just leave comments on their assignments in specific parts of it. But people not only think typing is good, they also believe that technology use helps with the development of society; technology has become a daily source for people’s lives, without technology many people cannot be successful at their work, school, college, etc. The use of technology brings many benefits to children in schools, they can search faster and more specific topics for their activities, it gives students instant access of answers that are beyond what books provides, more teacher support because technology makes easier communication between students and teachers. Many people choose the use of computers, tablets, cell phones over the use of handwriting. Seattle Times states “ it’s always about teaching as a tool for the really important thing: idea expression and communication”(3). The changes in schools of choosing technology and typing as the main source is due to fulfill the really important idea and purpose of children going to school , to prepares them for society , to improve their reading comprehension and