You can even do it without thinking about the content at all should you choose to. Verbatim note-taking involves a shallower form of cognitive processing.
When it came to remembering facts, it didn’t matter which method of note-taking they used, but when asked to explain the concepts covered in the lecture, the students who took notes by hand did better. Six reasons your memory is stranger than you think.An effortless way to improve your memory.Afterwards the students were given some tricky intelligence tests to distract them, and were then quizzed on the content of the lecture. The students using a keyboard were more likely to type the lecturers’ words verbatim, while the students writing more slowly by hand had no choice but to engage with the information in order to allow them to summarise. You might expect little difference in the notes, since students are so used to using a keyboard these days. Half were given laptops and half took notes with a pen and paper. In an experiment, run by Pam Mueller at Princeton University published in 2014, students were given Ted talks to watch and were told to take notes. This is a hugely useful skill of course and allows you to take copious notes, quickly and easily, which must surely be a good thing, right? But first, the replication.These days many people can type faster than they can write by hand, particularly if they’ve grown up using laptops. What is actually important is instructors need to foster note-taking, in whatever form it is done.
Will the pendulum swing with faculty being more open to laptops in class? Beware of misdirection. Stand back: A brand new study (Urry et al. Here, finally, was empirical evidence for the benefits of taking notes longhand and something many faculty believed (and still believe). This study is one of the most cited in recent history and led to faculty around the countryside banning students from using laptops in class. You may remember a well-publicized study that claimed the pen was mightier than the laptop- Essentially that students who took notes by hand did better on exams than those who used a laptop (Mueller & Oppenheimer, 2014). Misdirection can thwart the nefarious plans of movie villains and sometimes (temporarily) prevent the heroine from saving the day. You get so caught up in something that you completely miss what is actually more important.
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