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If you're a student looking for the most advanced learning machine available, give laptops a pass—and pick up an age-old notebook.
You'll absorb and retain more information if you take notes by hand, according to a study by UCLA, giving you an edge on your tests.
That spiral-bound stack of paper has other advantages, too: You can't zone out on Facebook and Instagram during a lecture, so you are more likely to stay focused.
Putting pen to paper requires a different kind of mental processing than typing does. Sure, typing on a laptop gives you the power to record a lecture nearly word for word—but transcribing verbatim is associated with what's called "shallow cognitive processing." The words may be captured on your screen, but they basically went in one ear and out the other.
Also, your notebook doesn't run Fortnite.
(Score: 2) by jb on Thursday May 09 2019, @06:41AM
Better still, make use of the sequence field in the right-most few columns -- that's what it's there for (and for a true belt-and-braces approach, draw a diagonal line in pencil across the side of the deck too).
With that simple precaution in place, sure dropping a deck remains a bit of a hassle, but it's much easier to recover from.