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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 looorg on Thursday May 09 2019, @05:59PM (1 child)
That should be the standard way. Students are supposed to read ahead, so if they come to class you should already have read what is to be the topic of the day. That way it is easier to follow what is said and taught and they can also ask suitable questions.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday May 10 2019, @12:42AM
The topic is one thing - the specific path of coverage is another.
I suspect a large part of the benefit was that he always had a (seemingly at least) well-planned path to cover the topic, while many professors tended to meander across it, sometimes revisiting the same or closely-related topics several times over the course of a lecture, making it all but impossible to take well-organized notes.