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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Take Notes by Hand for Better Long-Term Comprehension:

It's conventional knowledge that writing notes by hand is better for learning than typing, but now there's science to back it up. Psychological researchers have found that students who hand-write notes remembering conceptual information over a longer period. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University reckon that writing by hand forces note-takers to process information and then selectively write it, while laptop users are more prone to transcribing information verbatim. Their study, published in Psychological Science, says:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/22/09 56797614524581.abstract [sagepub.com]

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news /releases/take-notes-by-hand-for-better-long-term- comprehension.html [psychologicalscience.org]

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