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Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? - WSJ
Taking notes by hand with pen and paper helps students to retain information longer and understand it better than typing notes on a laptop.
- handwriting appears to focus classroom attention and boost learning in a way that typing notes on a keyboard does not, new studies suggest.
- Students who took handwritten notes generally outperformed students who typed their notes via computer, researchers at Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles found.
- Compared with those who type their notes, people who write them out in longhand appear to learn better, retain information longer, and more readily grasp new ideas
- something about writing things down excites the brain, brain imaging studies show.
- laptop note-takers tested immediately after a class could recall more of a lecture and performed slightly better than their pen-pushing classmates when tested on facts presented in class.
- Any advantage, though, is temporary. After just 24 hours, the computer note takers typically forgot material they’ve transcribed, several studies said. Nor were their copious notes much help in refreshing their memory because they were so superficial.
- those who took notes by hand could remember the lecture material longer and had a better grip on concepts presented in class, even a week later. The process of taking them down encoded the information more deeply in memory, experts said. Longhand notes also were better for review because they’re more organized.
- The problem is a typist’s tendency to take verbatim notes. “Ironically, the very feature that makes laptop note-taking so appealing—the ability to take notes more quickly—was what undermined learning,” said Dr. Kiewra.
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3 Places Families Should Make Phone-Free | Common Sense Media
- There's scientific proof that the blue light emitted from cell phones disrupts sleep.
- Phones in the car also interfere with those conversations you tend to have with your kids when you're driving them around.
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Word Clouds Revisited! 35+ Activities, Web Tools & Apps – Teacher Reboot Camp
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Trusting My Children as They Trust Me
This piece is related to "How to Raise an Adult."
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This article is written by the same woman who wrote How to Raise an Adult. It discusses the trap of overparenting and asks parents to let their children take responsibility for themselves.
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