Worst of all, laptop note-takers may be hurting the learning of their classmates. “The act of typing effectively turns the note-taker into a transcription zombie.” Not surprisingly, the ones who weren’t online did better on a post-class quiz. In 2003, Cornell researchers let half of students browse the Web during a lecture while the other half had to keep their laptops closed. Last year, a study out of Princeton and UCLA found that when students take notes on laptops, their “tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning.”Īnd the Internet is just so much more fun than a lecture. For one, we’re not paying as much attention to the actual words we’re typing.
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