Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting

Re:Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting by kinkrtyavimoodh on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:30AM (#15788031)

It really depends on how the notes were taken. Jotting down thoughts when you study on your own is helpful. But it's extremely common for your brain to just copy words from the board / screen to the notebook without any cognitive involvement.

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Re:Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting by Bartweiss on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:20PM (#15790839)

I think this was a big part in why pen-and-paper outperformed typing for me.

I'm slow at handwriting; to keep up with a lecture I basically have to use shorthand and restrict myself to the most useful observations. But typing, I can just be a pipe moving every word from powerpoint to a text file. That distracts me from the content of the lecture and doesn't do anything for retention.

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