Is Writing by Hand Better?

1. What is your opinion about the study?
This article ratifies my experience when I was studying at the university. It is very difficult to take note of exactly what the professor is saying and if you manage to do it most of the time you are not getting what the professor is explaining. The best thing to do is to try to grasp the general concept and transcribe it in your own words as this makes it easier to assimilate and therefore to learn.
As researchers said in this piece of news I strong believe that the students who wrote notes long-hand had a deeper understanding of ideas and concepts. When we take notes in class, this information is gradually stored in our brain: what the eyes see, the brain records it.

2. How can computers affect us in a negative way?
Using a laptop as an object to study from my point of view makes people lose skills that are important for life.
We lose the ability to handle books and to practice reading as a means to get information and process it by transcribing it to paper using our own words. It is about summarizing information and internalizing it and then writing it down on paper. This allows us to not only increase our knowledge of language and expressions but also to assimilate the information faster in our brain.
Computers have the advantage that we can transcribe what a person is saying through a program but while that happens the person is only a listener and by not writing the brain does not process information and is not active learning constantly.
Computers provide us with immediacy of information through the use of the internet facilitating the search for information, which is not always accurate or real. They are also a powerful tool for learning as they allow us to study a career from home without moving because we have all the information digitized.

3. Do you still prefer writing some of your notes?
As a former student, I still believe that traditional old-school methods are still effective and that computer use in classes has to be just a supportive complement and not a substitute for note-taking.
It is great using a software to transcribe what the teacher says in class just to have it as support in case of doubt but the main thing is to use our hands to take notes and thus accelerate learning and establish a study method that relay on an handmade outline.

4. What do you do to help yourself remember some things like birthdays or errands or even names?
To remember someone’s birthday or a medical appointment I usually use the agenda of the mobile phone selecting the day and time if necessary.
For the rest of the cases I only put a note on the phone with an alarm as a reminder.