Digital innovations are causing the Generation Z we’re just abandoning the ability to writebut also the basic knowledge to express oneself clearly. The doubt about whether it is part of the transformation that society is experiencing or a problem of Generation Z that must be addressed worries experts.

Although we had to wait until the Industrial Revolution and the creation of the printing press to see how learning was democratized. Although it was then that writing was able to jump from a selection of experts to the rest of the population, it could be said that our ability to write has been with us since the first cultures. Around 5,500 years in which the Sumerians, Egyptians and Chinese marked a path that Generation Z is leaving aside.

The loss of writing among Generation Z

According to several studies and statements collected by Türkiye Today led by professors from different universities, the young people of the Generation Z They have become so accustomed to using keyboards that they have ended up blanching when jumping from digital to traditional writing.

Like any skill that is lost little by little by not using it, students now show a considerable loss in their way of thinking. write by handoften crooked on the page and demonstrating unintelligible handwriting. A study carried out in the University of Stavangerin Norway, showed that in just one year of focusing solely on digital writing, it caused 40% of students to lose fluency in their handwriting. However, they assure that having “bad handwriting” or getting more tired than necessary when writing on paper is not the worst.

Motivated by the use of social media as a means of communication, they often avoid long sentences or fail to construct meaningful paragraphs. The Generation Z not only do they have more difficulties writing and communicating effectively, but regardless of whether they do it by hand or with a keyboard, they fail to create paragraphs with independent sentences, which makes it more chaotic and difficult when trying to understand their texts.

The good news is that their synthesis ability to try to explain any concept in less than 10 words has improved significantly, but in the long run it makes delving into more complex topics especially difficult for them. Between the loss of certain spelling rules, and the ability to structure correctly What they want to convey, the concern about the path that writing will take as technology continues to grow is, increasingly, a tangible reality.

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