{"id":4084,"date":"2014-05-05T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2014-05-05T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:07:17","slug":"taking-notes-by-hand-is-more-effective-than-by-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/05\/05\/taking-notes-by-hand-is-more-effective-than-by-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Notes By Hand is More Effective Than By Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/05\/laptop-with-pen-and-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/05\/laptop-with-pen-and-books-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"laptop-with-pen-and-books\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4086 aligncenter\" height=\"199\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/05\/laptop-with-pen-and-books-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/05\/laptop-with-pen-and-books.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study conducted by UCLA researchers Daniel Oppenheimer and Pam Mueller found that traditional handwritten notes are far more effective than notes taken on a laptop or other electronic device. In their experiment, students took notes by hand or on a laptop while watching a video lecture. They were then quizzed, &#8220;either after 30 minutes of difficult problem solving or a week&#8217;s time&#8221;. The students who took notes by hand outperformed those who took notes on a laptop. The researchers believe that the desire to write down the lecture word-for-word without analyzing the content is what led laptop note takers astray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">To many people, a laptop is the clear choice of note-taking device because it allows them to take down more of what the speaker is saying. But according to UCLA researchers Oppenheimer and Mueller, the temptation to capture <em>everything<\/em> we&#8217;re listening to might actually be the biggest issue with typed notation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;We don&#8217;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,&#8221; Mueller tells <em>The Atlantic&#8217;s <\/em>Robinson Meyer. &#8220;The people who were taking notes on the laptops don&#8217;t have to be judicious in what they write down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">In other words: Transcribing on a laptop in real-time may lead to verbatim notes, but doing so means you spend less time processing the lecture, and more time focusing on typing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/students-do-better-on-tests-when-they-take-notes-by-han-1571328675\">here<\/a> and let us know if you agree or disagree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study conducted by UCLA researchers Daniel Oppenheimer and Pam Mueller found that traditional handwritten notes are far more effective than notes taken on a laptop or other electronic device. In their experiment, students took notes by hand or on a laptop while watching a video lecture. They were then quizzed, &#8220;either after 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}