Point: Laptops are a menace, undermining how students take notes in class and distracting not only those using them but also their neighbors. Counterpoint: Laptops are a lifeline, allowing students ...

Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University. His students vigorously took notes by hand in paper notebooks. There wasn’t a laptop in sight. Nor an ...

There’s plenty of scientific evidence that writing by hand has benefits over using a computer to take notes. It has been shown to improve your ability to remember new information, for instance.

As students rely increasingly on technology, some professors are growing stricter about laptop use in their classes. Many Penn students enjoy using laptops in classes to take notes because typing is ...

For incoming college freshmen, one of the biggest academic challenges is learning ... well, learning how to learn. And experts say that using a laptop to take notes in class is a step in the wrong ...

It is a common sight: students packed into a lecture hall with the glow of laptop screens illuminating their faces as the sound of click-clacking keys fills the room. Students pay careful attention to ...

Professors increasingly frustrated by students who use laptops for non-class activities—like updating their Facebook pages—may be heartened by news from the University of Colorado at Boulder. A ...

Cornell faculty have begun cracking down on extraneous laptop use in class. While opinions on the benefits of laptop use in classrooms vary among faculty members, there has been a growing trend toward ...

I’d like to propose a truce in the perennial battle over laptops in the classroom. Proponents of laptop banning cite studies from the U.S. Military Academy in which professors divided students into ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...