To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand

This news reminds me of this earlier post. And this one.

“We don’t write longhand as fast as we type these days, but people who were typing just tended to transcribe large parts of lecture content verbatim,” Mueller told me. “The people who were taking notes on the laptops don’t have to be judicious in what they write down.”

She thinks this might be the key to their findings: Take notes by hand, and you have to process information as well as write it down. That initial selectivity leads to long-term comprehension.

From theatlantic.com: To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand