
Think about when you make a handwritten note. Secondly, note taking on a laptop in a lecture setting tends toward verbatim transcription, and thereby reduces the cognitive processing that happens when notes are jotted out by hand. The first is that laptops come with lots of distractions and therefore add another attentiveness burden for the user-thank you, Internet. Why does this happen? Researchers posit two reasons. In fact, a Princeton study found that when laptops are used solely to take notes, it may actually impair deep conceptual learning.

Apparently it’s not such a good idea-science tells us that typing notes is less effective than the old-school pen and paper method.


Have you ever seen a classroom full of students typing furiously into a laptop computer during a lecture? Perhaps you do this yourself during meetings or seminars.
