Jaquet Droz Signing Machine: Keeping Handwriting Alive, With A Machine – Quill & Pad

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2021-05-25 22:30:18

Not all schools today even offer courses in handwriting or cursive, as a majority of classwork is now done on personal laptops or school-provided tablets. Since tapping and typing have replaced manual notation, efficiency has steadily increased while information retention has steadily declined.

It turns out that writing something down by hand is one of the best ways to commit it to memory. This has to do with the fact that the physical action of writing out letters and words uses different systems of the brain than typing, leading to an increased use of different neural pathways – which strengthens short- and long-term memory retention.

Combine that with the fact that writing something by hand compared to typing it on a keyboard – like lecture notes, for example – forces you to consider, summarize, and understand something more completely due to the slower nature of taking the notes, increasing comprehension as well.

If that isn’t enough to encourage the continued use of handwriting and cursive instruction, how about the fact that nearly all historical documents use some form of handwriting script or extensively flourished cursive?