Is Handwriting Worth Teaching?
手寫還值得教嗎？
— English reading, C1
文章
As schools adopt tablets and laptops, some educators question whether children still need to learn handwriting. After all, few adults write anything longer than a shopping list by hand.
隨著學校採用平板和筆電，有些教育工作者質疑孩子是否還需要學手寫。畢竟，很少有大人會用手寫比購物清單更長的東西。
Neuroscience, though, offers a compelling counter-argument. Brain scans show that writing letters by hand activates areas linked to memory and learning far more than typing does.
不過，神經科學提出了一個有力的反駁。腦部掃描顯示，用手寫字比打字更能活化與記憶和學習有關的腦區。
Students who take notes by hand also tend to understand lectures better, since they must summarize rather than copy word for word.
用手寫筆記的學生，通常也更能理解課程內容，因為他們必須歸納重點，而不是逐字照抄。
生詞
adopt 採用
educator 教育工作者
neuroscience 神經科學
compelling 有說服力的
counter-argument 反論
activate 活化
lecture 講課
summarize 歸納；摘要