How Planners Help Students Learn Organizational Skills
By Ann Logsdon Planning and organizational skills aren’t just for grownups anymore, and that’s a good thing. With all the pressure on students to learn more material in less time than ever, they need tools to be successful in school. This pressure can be stressful…
Why Using Pen And Paper, Not Laptops, Boosts Memory: Writing Notes Helps Recall Concepts, Ability To Understand
By Lizette Borreli Note-taking using pen and paper has quickly become obsolete, at least in college classrooms. In the digital age, using laptops, or “notebooks,” to transcribe lectures has become common practice, but can typing electronic, copious notes be harmful to academic performance? According to…
Some Notes on Note Taking
By Wray Herbert I went to college long before the era of laptops, so I learned to take notes the old-fashioned way: ink on paper. But that does not mean my note-taking system was simple. Indeed it was an intricate hieroglyphic language, in which asterisks…