ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
UPI

Writing on paper, instead of tablet or smart phone, boosts brain activity

March 19 (UPI) --Writing on paper, instead of on a tablet or smart phone, boosted the brain activity of a group of Japanese university students when they tried to recall information they'd learned an ...
Psychology Today

Why Does Writing by Hand Promote Better and Faster Learning?

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...
The New York Times

With Kids Learning From Home, Children’s Publishers See a Spike

As schools close during the coronavirus crisis, sales of reading and writing workbooks, flash cards and activity books have skyrocketed. By Alexandra Alter The top-selling book on Amazon at the moment ...
New Atlas

EEG study finds brain activity differences between handwriting and typing

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...
Miami University

Writing and AI in College Education

This brief case study was written by Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Ronald E. Bulanda, J. Scott Brown, Aaron Abbott, & Rena Perez. Educators often incorporate extensive writing into their coursework to ...
The Conversation

Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges

Assistant Teaching Professor of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies, University of California, Merced Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text ...