Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In our digital age, writing by hand is becoming less and less common. Shawn Datchuk, a professor at the University of Iowa, tells Vox’s Jonquilyn Hill why it’s important that we keep teaching younger generations how to write.

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