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ERRR #079. Daniel Willingham on How to Study

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The Difference Between Longhand Notes and Laptops

The debate between laptops versus longhand notes is a point of debate. I can type probably about 10 times faster than I can write and so I might get less of the generative benefit from typing but I know I get much more of the recording benefit, he says. The most important factor these are going to be these effects might be real that we've been discussing but what is definitely going to be very real is the probability of distraction if you're typing. Dan: If it's the beginning of a lab section then the details matter and you need to get this down so that you are doing the lab correctly and typing makes all the sense in the world. It was my job to

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