Summer break is over and Scribble is grading thousands of handwriting samples per day
Mitch Forest - edu/acc
@MitchForest
building @ScribbleDotApp
- Can any Gen Z/Gen Alpha help this elder millennial understand what is going on here? Is it a vibe thing (like curating your IG grid so it all looks cohesive)? Or is it an anti-dopamine thing (greyscaling TikTok and Snapchat to make tapping them less appealing)?If you are a Millennial in tech and think you understand the next generation of software users I would like you to consider this unaltered photograph of my 16-yo daughter’s iPhone. We are not ready.
- Handwriting automaticity. If letter formation is effortful, it eats the working memory you need for comprehension. Automatic, effortless handwriting is 'free', so you can focus almost 100% on the lecture.Replying to @C_Hendrick @the_culturist_ and @SirEvanAmatoI know the papers debunking this stuff, but what do you call it, then, when some people can take notes during a lecture fairly easily - I.e. without strain - while listening and others can't?
- Writing = transcription × composition Transcription is handwriting & spelling. Transcription needs to become automatic to free working memory for composition. Two research findings shape Scribble's design (Wolf, Abbott & Berninger, 2017): 1. Handwriting practice transfers best
- Handwriting is not important for note taking, especially for already fluent college-age writers. The strongest evidence for handwriting is for elementary students learning to read and write. For reading, James & Engelhardt (2012) showed preliterate 5-year-olds who formeda famous study said handwritten notes beat laptop notes. typing makes you transcribe instead of think. professors banned laptops over it. then two labs reran it, and the famous part fell apart: 1) no reliable difference on the quiz. 2019: no difference. 2021: no difference
