Computers or Notebooks? The on-going Debate Between Students and Teachers
February 3, 2023
After two long years or so, the sophomores have taken notes on laptops for many classes ever since the Pandemic, and so the questions are: Is switching from taking notes on a laptop to taking notes on a notebook, the best even though becoming so accustomed to a way of analyzing and studying notes? What is better: taking notes on a laptop or in a notebook?
There is evidence that actively supports that note- taking in a notebook is proven to be more beneficial than writing notes on a laptop. One of the studies made by ( Mueller & Oppenheimer, 2014) consists of sixty-seven people, with an equal number of men and women, were studied based on their performance on a task after roughly a fifteen minute lecture. During this lecture, both a laptop and a notebook are provided per each person in the pair. After the lecture the subjects were to do a short, five-minute task, therefore, the results from the tasks can be collected and analyzed in regards to what is better to take notes on. The results from the experiment illustrate that the people who applied longhand-study (note taking using a notebook) during the lecture performed better in three areas which are: combined, factual, and conceptual than those who preferred to use a laptop to write notes.
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