Blogging: Is the pen mightier than the computer?
Graham Jones writes Use your pen for your blog, not the keyboard.
However, speed of production was not the real finding in this study. What is important is the creative aspect. Writing with a pen led to more words, more quickly. In other words, the children were able to convert what was in their head to something on paper more easily with a pen than they were with the keyboard. Brain imaging studies have also shown that when we have to form the letters of a word by drawing them out with a pen, our brain engages with the process more than when we simply have to select the letters from a keyboard.
I’ve recently been thinking about how using a typewriter differs from writing on a computer keyboard. More on that subject later.
Meta: It’s been a while since we’ve talked here. Microblogging (here and here) stole my soul. But I’ve managed to break free.