Australia Association for Research in Education
Keyboarding and handwriting
Write at the start, all kids need to keyboard
In Australia, children are expected to develop computer-based writing skills as soon as they start schooling yet the writing performance of students is plateauing or even declining. Across the globe, results from national standardised tests show a large percentage of students writing at or below basic proficiency. That includes Australia. The role of research in …
In these pandemic school days handwriting still matters!
During the last 1000 years handwriting has been the prevalent mode of writing. In today’s increasingly digital world, …
Why Australia is falling behind in teaching keyboarding and handwriting
When we write we want to produce a text that can be easily read by our intended audience. …