Posted AT 9:20 AM EDT on 18/04/05
Is the pen mightier than the keyboard?
He struggles with reading. He butchers spelling words. And his handwriting used to be an illegible scrawl. But Robert Hughes is the envy of his Grade 5 classmates.While they sit at their desks at Ecole Gron Morgan in Thunder Bay with pens in hand, crafting sentences about ancient civilizations, Robert uses a sleek new laptop computer -- complete with spell-checker, Internet hook-up and software that dictates his voice into words on the screen -- for all his writing assignments.
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