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The computer has become a major part of children’s everyday life and has come to be used in schools everywhere. Arne Trageton, educationalist, has done research on how computers can benefit children’s learning process. Instead of starting their writing careers using pen and pa-per, the children will be using a computer. They will write their own texts and will use these texts to learn how to read. Because of children’s problems holding a pencil correctly, which is very time-consuming, they get to write on a computer instead, and therefore the children will directly write correct letters. Learning proper handwriting will be postponed until 2nd grade, and instead of learning handwriting during the 1st grade, the children can focus on the content of their written texts.During my research on Arne Trageton’s theory, I visited three schools to see how this works in reality. By studying the children using computers I came to the conclusion that by learning how to write on the computer, children will write longer and better texts compared to children who are writing only by hand. When they start writing by hand they will do this at least as good, or better, as children of the same age who have only been writing by hand.