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Our research shows children produce better pieces of writing by hand. But they need keyboard skills too

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Our research shows children produce better pieces of writing by hand. But they need keyboard skills tooNorma Mortenson/ Pexels , CC BY

Children today are growing up surrounded by technology. So it’s easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard.

But our research suggests this is not necessarily true.

We need to actively teach students to be able to type as well as write using paper and pen or pencil.

Our research

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