Teachers and parents, present at a new WEBDIDACTICA conference "The benefits of handwriting in the age of digital education"

A new WEBDIDACTICA conference about „The benefits of handwriting in the age of digital education" took place on 26th of july, starting at 17:00. The event was held online on the Zoom Webinars videoconferencing platform.

The Dan Voiculescu Foundation for the Development of Romania brought together well-known psychologists, specialists from the European Society of Neurology and international experts in digital education to show teachers how they can give students the benefits of handwriting while preparing them for the digital world by combining traditional educational resources with modern digital ones.

Participants had the opportunity to learn relevant information from specialists and experts in technology and psychology such as:

• Danut Eremenco, expert in technology for Education;
• Gabriela Maalouf, psychologist;
• Cătălin Anghelache, Neuro Change Practitioner, Psychologies Magazine Romania;
• Alexandra Chiriac, neurologist at the Emergency Clinical Hospital "Prof. Dr. N. Oblu" in Iasi;
• Petre Crăciun, children's writer, journalist.

Conference Moderator: Ramona Mezei - Director General of the Bucharest Metropolitan Library, Associate Professor of the University College of Media Production "Spiru Haret" Bucharest and founder of the School of Speaking, journalist, teacher and trainer of diction, public speaking and debate.

WEBDIDACTICA Conference: Guest speakers and presentations

1. Gabriela Maalouf, psychologist, psychotherapist and NLP trainer for children and parents, initiator of the Parenting Workshop "Guide to the Fulfilled Family";

• Title of the presentation: "Handwriting, essential in children's psychomotor development!"

2. Cătălin Anghelache, Neuro Change Practitioner, Revista Psychologies România;

• Title of the presentation: "Neurocognitive development through handwriting at school age"

3. Alexandra Chiriac, neurologist at the Emergency Clinical Hospital "Prof. Dr. N. Oblu" in Iasi, well-known medical influencer

• Title of the presentation: "The power of handwriting: impact on the brain and development"

4. Dănuț Eremenco, expert in technology for Education, Wacom and Newline specialist;

• Title of the presentation: "Modern handwriting tools using modern technology"

5. SPECIAL GUEST: Petre Crăciun, President of the Children and Youth Branch of the Writers' Union, children's writer, historian, journalist.

• Presentation theme: "Romanian pens, a handwritten story"