This article came to my attention recently and is worth sharing. The study printed in the Scientific American outlined details of the study of many hundreds of students after lectures.
Half of the students were instructed to take notes with a laptop, and the other half were instructed to write the notes out by hand. As in other studies, students who used laptops took more notes. In each study, however, those who wrote out their notes by hand had a stronger conceptual understanding and were more successful in applying and integrating the material than those who used took notes with their laptops.
Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material.
The article also explains how social media impacts the students using laptops, how writing notes helps students analyse the information. "Instead, they listen, digest, and summarize so that they can succinctly capture the essence of the information."
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