I detest having to write by hand, but when I was in school, there was no such thing as a laptop. Not sure what I’d do now, or why handwritten note takers get better grades.
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I detest having to write by hand, but when I was in school, there was no such thing as a laptop. Not sure what I’d do now, or why handwritten note takers get better grades.
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Probably links the memory to more parts of the brain, making the memory physically stronger. I wonder what the results would be with people writing with a stylus on a tablet and having the writing converted to text for studying later.
An analysis of the actual notes might be interesting. Were the laptop users actually using Facetagram part of the time?
But is this a distinction that makes a difference? I hope they will check bar exam pass rates in a few years.
Finally, the experiment they will never do is discard lecture entirely for one group and just have them read the professor’s notes.
The writing implement you use matters more than you’d think. No matter how sloppy you pencil or ballpoint writing is, a fountain pen will make your writing elegant and readable (unless you’re a clutz who promptly squirts himself in the face). The problem with a stylus is the lack of feedback. I do my initial artwork on paper, with pencils, pens (including a 1930s Speedball set, where you have to dip the nib in an inkwell) and brushes. Then I scan it up (with an 18″ Epson flatbed) and transfer the workspace to an XP-Pen Artist 22E tablet for final work and special effects. A lot of my initial pencil work us done on a Huion 18″ LightPad.