Generation Z is losing handwriting skills according to study

It is no secret to anyone that the vast majority of young people in the Generation Z They have developed important skills and abilities when making use of all kinds of digital innovations.

However, despite the importance of this factor in the digital world we live in, this series of “advantages” have also become the main barrier that has prevented this population group from communicating clearly.

More specifically, the Generation Z has started to lose the ability to write by handa practice that humanity has carried out for more than 5 thousand years.

What repercussions does the lack of this skill have on Generation Z?

According to a study by the University of Stavanger, Norwayone of the main reasons why these young people have lost this skill is due to their preference or “need” to write on keyboards over paper and pencil.

In the same study, the norwegian university showed that, in just one year of focusing solely on digital writing, 40% of young people lost fluency when time to write by hand.

In the tests carried out, the vast majority presented a unintelligible handwritingin addition to not being able to follow a linear pattern on the sheet of paper despite the guides drawn on it.

The above, despite being a clear reflection of the lack of manual skills to write by hand, also revealed that the Generation Z Avoid using long sentences or avoid constructing paragraphs with meaning or coherence.

Due to the above, and according to the studies carried out, it showed that the writing of this population group is chaotic, difficult to understand and incoherent.

The results of the study, according to the same analysis, call into question the dispute between technology and manual writing during the following years.

Despite all of the above, it was also discovered that despite not being able to construct coherent and long paragraphs, the Generation Z They have an important capacity for synthesis that allows them to explain, in less than 10 words, any concept or situation.

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