Typing vs. Handwriting: Which Is Better for Your Memory?

If you want better grades in school, studies suggest it might be worth switching out your laptop for a trusty, old-fashioned notebook. Why Is Learning So Hard?

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In an age where your phone can scan your face and buttons are becoming obsolete, who thinks of writing anything by hand anymore? I know it feels archaic to pick up a pencil and use, ugh, lead, but writing down your notes could help you pass your classes. Note-taking is very difficult. You have to listen, understand, and transcribe concepts all at the same time. As technology integrates more and more into classrooms, computers have become the new notebooks. So we’re not writing things down or summarizing, we’ve completely changed how we encode information. Somewhere down the line the emphasis for perfect cursive faded, and kids were taught to type; as fast, and as accurately as they could. A lot of college students now note-take on laptops. However, typing leads to copying a lecture v...