If you’re a student looking for the most advanced learning machine available, give laptops a pass — and pick up an age-old notebook. You’ll absorb and retain more information if you take notes by hand ...

A recent New York Times article, Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting, resumed the debate over whether laptops and other digital devices should be banned from classrooms, and if ...

Handwriting might be a lost art, but educators should make sure it lives on in the classroom. According to a new study , Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles ...

The primary purpose of note taking is to encourage active learning and to prepare study materials for exams. Developing note taking skills should help you organize information into an understandable ...

I just finished my 23 rd year of teaching at universities. There have been several changes in the way students approach their classes in that time. The most noticeable is that when I started teaching, ...