July 2, 2013
Praise the pen. Curse the keyboard.
fastcompany:
“ “We learn more and retain more. Creative pathways are opened up as we engage more of our senses. Forming letters by strokes, as opposed to selecting each by keys, opens regions of the brain involving...

Praise the pen. Curse the keyboard. 

fastcompany:

“We learn more and retain more. Creative pathways are opened up as we engage more of our senses. Forming letters by strokes, as opposed to selecting each by keys, opens regions of the brain involving thinking, language, and memory that are not opened through typing. Writing, real writing, makes you smarter.”

Need to get focused? Try turning off your computer and doing some good old fashioned hand-writing.

[Image: Flickr user Lali Masriera]

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