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What is learning handwriting good for?

Audio 48:30

Research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience shows that handwriting acts on the brain to facilitate learning.

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

We all write less and less with pen and paper.

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Smartphones have taken over, including for shopping lists, and more and more students are taking notes on their computer.

However, research carried out in cognitive psychology and neuroscience shows that writing with the gesture of the hand acts on the brain to facilitate learning, unlike the keyboard.

What are these mechanisms?

How to use writing at school to develop fundamental knowledge?  

With :

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Grégoire Borst,

Professor of Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences of Education (

University of Paris

) and Director of the

Laboratory of Psychology of Child Development and Education (LaPsyDÉ - CNRS)

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Claire Doquet,

linguist specializing in school writing and trainer at the

National Higher Institute for Teaching and Education (Inspé) in Bordeaux

.

And at the end of the program, 

the chronicle of psychologist Ibrahima Giroux, Parents, children, from here and elsewhere

: when children are used in marital conflicts.

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A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist in Dakar, Senegal. 

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