{"id":2892,"date":"2015-11-13T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2016-05-21T21:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:41:29","slug":"dont-take-notes-with-a-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2015\/11\/dont-take-notes-with-a-laptop.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Take Notes with a Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/notetaking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/notetaking-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"notetaking\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/notetaking-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/notetaking.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Taking notes by hand requires different types of cognitive processing than taking notes on a laptop, and these different processes have consequences for learning. Writing by hand is slower and more cumbersome than typing, and students cannot possibly write down every word in a lecture. Instead, they listen, digest, and summarize so that they can succinctly capture the essence of the information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thus, taking notes by hand forces the brain to engage in some heavy \u201cmental lifting,\u201d 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, as faster typing speeds allow students to transcribe a lecture word for word without devoting much thought to the content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\">A learning secret: don&#8217;t take notes with a laptop<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/review.antiochcollege.org\/fall-2015\/old-things-used-things\" target=\"_blank\">The Antioch Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Shock-Of-The-Old-Technology\/dp\/1861973063\" target=\"_blank\">David Edgerton<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getbettergradesnow.com\/blog\/tag\/note-taking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Picture credit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Taking notes by hand requires different types of cognitive processing than taking notes on a laptop, and these different processes have consequences for learning. Writing by hand is slower and more cumbersome than typing, and students cannot possibly write down every word in a lecture. Instead, they listen, digest, and summarize so that they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,315,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}