Students, take note.
Close the lid of your laptop: New research shows that taking notes by hand helps you remember conceptual information better than typing notes on your computer.
And it doesn’t have to do with browsing Reddit when a lecturer is being boring: The inclination to take notes verbatim on a computer can hinder learning.
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Researchers asked note-takers to listen to a TED Talk and later asked questions about it that either recalled facts or required conceptual thinking.
For example, "What year was the Eiffel Tower built?" (factual) versus "Why did the French Revolution begin?" (conceptual).
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Both groups of students did equally well recalling facts, but laptop note-takers did considerably worse answering conceptual questions.
Even though students who took more notes overall did better, the laptop users who tended to transcribe did worse, whereas pen-and-paper students were more selective about the information they wrote down.
The hand-writers also remembered conceptual information better a week later!
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Researchers believe that the verbatim transcribers processed information more shallowly than students who reframed it in their minds and wrote it in their own words.
Next time you’re in a note-taking setting, consider what information you'll need to remember — and adjust your tool accordingly to maximize your recollection results.
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