Imagine you’re a student in high school or college. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

How you prefer to take notes is very personal. Some folks swear by the tactile nature of pen and paper — others feel they’d never be able to keep up without the speed of a keyboard. But is one ...

The post Student With Disabilities Has Trouble Writing Notes By Hand, But One Professor Insists That He Needs To Do It Anyway ...

I’m no stranger to the pitfalls of forgetfulness. It’s easy for things to slip our minds, especially when we’re working on a million things at once. Sure, we’ve all got a calendar and automated ...

Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. After recording the brain activity of ...

Research by Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote them by hand during the same time. In terms of immediate results, laptop users ...

Science reveals handwriting significantly improves how the brain learns and retains information. Using pen and paper slows ...