A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop - Scientific American - 0 views
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students who write out their notes on paper actually learn more.
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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.
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taking notes by hand forces the brain to engage in some heavy “mental lifting,” and these efforts foster comprehension and retention. By contrast, when typing students can easily produce a written record of the lecture without processing its meaning
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