Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. laptop and a notebook, and a piece of paper is bouncing between them like they're playing a game of tennis How you prefer to take ...

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Businesses have been using PowerPoint presentations to corral and show off information since Microsoft added the software into its Office Suite, taking advantage of being able to print out or ...

Computer laptops may be doing more harm than good in university classrooms, a recent study has found. Students who use laptops for taking notes write more but retain less than classmates who write ...

Dust off those Bic ballpoints and college-ruled notebooks — research shows that taking notes by hand is better than taking notes on a laptop for remembering conceptual information over the long term.

Q. I’m a graduate student. Most of my peers are taking their notes on a laptop during class lectures, but I prefer to take notes on paper. I used to live near a paper plant, so I have a sense that ...

Many people take notes during interviews, presentations and lectures not with pen and paper, but with a laptop. But a newly published study concludes that people actually remember better when they’ve ...