Handwriting:

Word after word, my mind continues to spiral as the teacher’s fast-paced voice spews out confusing information. During writing, the phrases I thought I grasped during the lecture jumble together, turning into nothing I could understand. As the flimsy notebook endures more and more erasing, each piece of paper deteriorates, and my patience wears thin as each second goes by. I’m infuriated and only become more enraged when I realize that I have to type up all the notes for an online assignment, which adds more stress and time to the process. 

This is an issue that is all too common among students, but there is a solution. What if life could be as organized and simple as a note page without any smudged pencil markings? Welcome to the world of digitized note-taking! According to a study conducted by Imed Bouchrika, PhD, chief data scientist, note-taking online advances the retention of information by forcing students to process and rephrase the information because they aren’t writing verbatim. The Learning Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill agreed with Bouchrika, recognizing that digital note-taking is more effective for the comprehension of factual information rather than conceptual information. 

In addition, digitized note-taking is faster, can be easily uploaded to Google Drive or other platforms in an organized way, and is quicker to edit and reorganize for later retrieval. As LASA students, it is crucial that there is a reliable and trustworthy method of note-taking: one where we don’t have to depend on our flimsy notebook being durable. Digitized note-taking is the way to go for the countless hours of note-taking ahead.

Typing:

Word after word, my mind continues to spiral as the teacher’s fast-paced voice spews out confusing information. During writing, the phrases I thought I grasped during the lecture jumble together, turning into nothing I could understand. As the flimsy notebook endures more and more erasing, each piece of paper deteriorates, and my patience wears thin as each second goes by. I’m infuriated and only become more enraged when I realize that I have to type up all the notes for an online assignment, which adds more stress and time to the process. 

This is an issue that is all too common among students, but there is a solution. What if life could be as organized and simple as a note page without any smudged pencil markings? Welcome to the world of digitized note-taking! According to a study conducted by Imed Bouchrika, PhD, chief data scientist, note-taking online advances the retention of information by forcing students to process and rephrase the information because they aren’t writing verbatim. The Learning Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill agreed with Bouchrika, recognizing that digital note-taking is more effective for the comprehension of factual information rather than conceptual information. 

In addition, digitized note-taking is faster, can be easily uploaded to Google Drive or other platforms in an organized way, and is quicker to edit and reorganize for later retrieval. As LASA students, it is crucial that there is a reliable and trustworthy method of note-taking: one where we don’t have to depend on our flimsy notebook being durable. Digitized note-taking is the way to go for the countless hours of note-taking ahead.