From: Education Week
Laptop Note-Taking: External Brain-Booster or Memory Drain?
September 11, 2014
Education Week:
As more and more districts roll out 1-to-1 laptop and tablet initiatives, new research suggests students may be better off sticking to traditional pen and paper longhand for taking and studying notes.
In a series of experiments published in the June edition of Psychological Science, Pam Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel Oppenheimer of the University of California Los Angeles found that students taking notes on a laptop could include more material—but that wasn’t neccessarily a good thing.
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