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Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away

Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away

  •  For questions that asked students to simply remember facts, like dates, both groups did equally well.
  • But for “conceptual-application” questions, such as, “How do Japan and Sweden differ in their approaches to equality within their societies?” the laptop users did “significantly worse.”
  • “The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective — because you can’t write as fast as you can type. And that extra processing of the material that they were doing benefited them.”

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