Pros and Cons: Handwriting Versus Digital Writing

Digital Pen Technology’s Suitability to Support Handwriting Learning

While digital technology is entering today’s classrooms and learning environments, handwriting is still primarily taught using regular pencil and paper. In our research we explore the potential of digital writing tools to augment the handwriting process while preserving its cognitive benefits. In particular, we are interested in (1) how the characteristics of digital writing tools influence chi...

Finemet versus Ferrite — Pros and Cons

There is a new magnetic alloy called Finemet which has very constant μ′pQf up to ∼2 kG and is very stable at high magnet flux density and temperature. It may be a good candidate for high-gradient rf cavities.However, it has a rather low quality factor and is therefore very lossy. We compare the pros and cons of Finemet versus the common ferrite, when used in low-energy accelerating cavities, in...

Picture Storybooks Go Digital: Pros and Cons

Compensatory Efforts; A Critique of the Pros and Cons

Compensatory efforts, positive discrimination or reverse discrimination are the terms which nowadays are used in applied ethics for a set of efforts and privileges which are scheduled for compensation of the historical oppressions and discriminations imposed upon some groups and classes in the society. The mentioned oppressions and discriminations may be applied deliberately or inadvertently or...

Handwriting or Typewriting? The Influence of Pen- or Keyboard-Based Writing Training on Reading and Writing Performance in Preschool Children

Digital writing devices associated with the use of computers, tablet PCs, or mobile phones are increasingly replacing writing by hand. It is, however, controversially discussed how writing modes influence reading and writing performance in children at the start of literacy. On the one hand, the easiness of typing on digital devices may accelerate reading and writing in young children, who have ...