Keyboards have replaced paper as the note-taking medium of choice, especially for college students. But Wray Herbert writes about an experiment that concluded the old-fashioned handwritten method is more effective for understanding: "The students using laptops were in fact more likely to take copious notes, which can be beneficial to learning. But they were also more likely to take verbatim notes, and this 'mindless transcription' appeared to cancel out the benefits."
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