I've spent years trying to find a faster way to learn the ins and outs of a class, but every time I try something else, I come back to writing everything out. No matter the subject matter or the type ...

Columnist Olivia Healy urges students to ditch their computers and bring out handwriting in notebooks to improve their cognitive processing in the classroom.

When it comes to taking in a new piece of information, there’s something about putting pen to paper that just hits differently, compared to typing something on a laptop, tablet, or phone. While ...

Recently I was in McCosh Hall 10 for the first lecture of PHI 202: Introduction to Moral Philosophy. It’s a large class with around 300 students. The lecture hall is large, with a balcony. I sat near ...

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If you are a student at the University of Michigan or any medium-to-large university, you have probably looked up in a large lecture to see a sea of students on laptops playing The New York Times ...