What fun to read this…against the backdrop of pushing Gen AI in K-12 for student use. When we know better, do we really do better?

To help sell this policy, I presented in the first lecture of the course a study showing that students who were required to take class notes by hand retained significantly more information than students who used computers.

The reason is that with computers, students can type as fast as I speak and strive for verbatim transcripts, but there is almost no mental processing of the class’s content. Conversely, virtually no one can hand write 125 words per minute for 90 minutes.

Thus, handwritten notes require simultaneous mental processing to determine the important points that need recording.

This processing encodes the material in the brain differently and facilitates longer-term retention. (Source)