{"id":17060,"date":"2015-04-07T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17060"},"modified":"2015-04-07T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T08:00:38","slug":"is-it-best-to-take-notes-by-hand-or-electronically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17060","title":{"rendered":"Is it best to take notes by hand or electronically?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to this article<\/a>, a study suggests that students who use a laptop to take lecture notes do not learn as well as those who make handwritten notes. I’m not so sure about this.<\/p>\n

At every meeting, conference and lecture I attend, I take notes on my iPad. I believe that there are the following benefits to using a computer rather than a notebook.<\/p>\n

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  1. I can read my notes much more easily because they are more legible than my handwriting and and the text can be formatted later with highlighting or bullet points.<\/li>\n
  2. I can have all my notes over several years with me all the time, instead of these notes being in various notebooks accumulating at home.<\/li>\n
  3. I can organise the notes thematically, so all the meetings of a particular organisation, all the conferences on a particular subject, and all the lectures on a particular course are grouped together.<\/li>\n
  4. As the event progresses, i can build up a list of action points at the bottom of my notes.<\/li>\n
  5. I can connect to the web to check on a term that I do not understand or a website that is mentioned.<\/li>\n
  6. I can easily e-mail any meeting note to a colleague.<\/li>\n
  7. Since all my notes are routinely uploaded to the cloud, if I should lose my iPad or change it, I can easily download all my material to the new device.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I can see two potential downsides to this approach:<\/p>\n

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    1. I type more slowly than I can write. However, many students can type as fast or faster than they can write.<\/li>\n
    2. There is a temptation to look at e-mail or web pages instead of concentrating totally on the event. However, very few meetings or conferences are so interesting that they merit full attention 100% of the time. Multi-tasking can be an efficient use of time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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