This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Nuwa Pen is a smart ballpoint pen that digitizes the words you write on paper as you write them. The pen uses a standard D1 ballpoint ink cartridge in conjunction with AI, computer vision and motion ...

A new system may help address that problem, utilizing a "smart" pen. The technology is being developed via the German-French "Kaligo-based Intelligent Handwriting Teacher" (KIHT) project. It ...

It is important to promote good handwriting in kids. The computer — more accurately, the Internet — has brought us so much. So much information, resources, power. But what it has taken away in return ...

Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...