I homeschooled for many years...taught phonics and cursive writing. We utilized brain gym and the practice of a sideays figure 8 (infinity) actually balances the left/right brain and helps to be the basis for achieving the flow of all the cursive letters. The video correctly points out the advantages to the brain of writing in cursive...the video also points out it is no longer required core curriculum in public schools...it amazes me how they absolutely destroy everything they get their hands on...
You can "think" whatever you want...I believe there is more to this that has been researched than you would like to believe...so I am certainly not going to argue with you...think and believe whatever you want...but here is an article that may shed some light on the issue...read it or not...
Psychology studies are of a highly dubious nature though, as are most of the 'soft' sciences. Reproducibility and replication of study results have been extremely difficult in the past decades because of the loose nature of these fields, and given that replication is core to science as a whole, it's questionable to point at a pop-science magazine summary of a paper and claim it as 100% truthful to the real world.
"A new EEG-based study by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) reaffirms the importance of "old-fashioned" cursive handwriting in the 21st-century's Computer Age."
Makes it seem that EEG's would be able to authenticate results....
I homeschooled for many years...taught phonics and cursive writing. We utilized brain gym and the practice of a sideays figure 8 (infinity) actually balances the left/right brain and helps to be the basis for achieving the flow of all the cursive letters. The video correctly points out the advantages to the brain of writing in cursive...the video also points out it is no longer required core curriculum in public schools...it amazes me how they absolutely destroy everything they get their hands on...
You can "think" whatever you want...I believe there is more to this that has been researched than you would like to believe...so I am certainly not going to argue with you...think and believe whatever you want...but here is an article that may shed some light on the issue...read it or not...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain
Psychology studies are of a highly dubious nature though, as are most of the 'soft' sciences. Reproducibility and replication of study results have been extremely difficult in the past decades because of the loose nature of these fields, and given that replication is core to science as a whole, it's questionable to point at a pop-science magazine summary of a paper and claim it as 100% truthful to the real world.
From the article...
"A new EEG-based study by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) reaffirms the importance of "old-fashioned" cursive handwriting in the 21st-century's Computer Age."
Makes it seem that EEG's would be able to authenticate results....