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Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard for Schoolkids?
Virginia Berninger, a University of Washington professor of Educational Psychology, looked at the ability of second, fourth, and sixth grade children to write the alphabet, sentences, and essays using a pen and a keyboard.
"Children consistently did better writing with a pen when they wrote essays. They wrote more and they wrote faster," said Berninger.
The researcher further said that only for writing the alphabet was the keyboard better than the pen.
Results were mixed for sentences.
However, when using a pen, the children in the three grade levels produced longer essays and composed them at a faster pace.
The study also showed that fourth and sixth graders wrote more complete sentences when they used a pen, and that this ability was not affected by the children's spelling skills.
The research also showed that many children don't have a reliable idea of what a sentence is until the third or fourth grade.
"Children first have to understand what a sentence or a complete thought is before they can write one. Talking is very different from writing. We don't talk in complete sentence. In conversation we produce units smaller and larger than sentences," Berninger said.
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