It turns out there is. A new study —conducted by Mueller and Oppenheimer—finds that people remember lectures better when they’ve taken handwritten notes, rather than typed ones.

Columnist Eric Najera comments on the difference between taking notes on a laptop and handwriting notes in a notebook. Credit: Sydney Curran As soon as a lecture begins, instead of hearing what we ...

Laptops and organizer apps make pen and paper seem antique, but handwriting appears to focus classroom attention and boost learning in a way that typing notes on a keyboard does not, new studies ...

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 ...