Aux Etats-Unis, plusieurs états décident de ne plus rendre l’apprentissage de l’#écriture cursive obligatoire. Mais l’on n’écrit pas de la même façon avec un #crayon sur du #papier et avec un clavier sur un ordinateur...
Putting words down on paper : How we write affects what we write | canada.com
▻http://o.canada.com/2013/06/24/putting-words-down-on-paper-how-we-write-affects-what-we-write
I learned to type when I was nine. I’ve been writing on a computer for more than 30 years. But I can tell you I would feel something vital had been lost if I could not express my thoughts longhand. Often when I am stuck at the keyboard, unable to find my way out of whatever mental cul-de-sac I have put myself in, I will pick up a pen and start writing — and the words start to come again.
This is not by accident. You’re using different parts of the brain. Typing is file retrieval, remembering where a letter is. With handwriting, you create the letters anew each time, using much more complex motor skills. Whether it’s the flowing motion of the arm, or the feel of the page under your hand, or the aesthetic satisfaction of a well-turned “f”, it seems to engage the more intuitive, right-brain aspects of cognition.
