benefits of handwriting lecture notes

Not a question as such but news of some interesting research reported in The Economist this week into the benefits of handwriting your lecture notes. Research by Muller & Openheimer (2014) found that while students who typed their lecture notes wrote twice as many words and verbatim passages than handwriters, they did not understand the material as much as handwriters.
Handwriting may take longer (and therefore make it virtually impossible to capture lecture material verbatim) so it requires notetakers to convert lecture material into their own words. This, they argue, aids conceptual understanding at the moment of writing. It was also found that handwriters performed better on tests when based on revising their notes.
I would add to this that handwriting in a lecture and then typing notes up later would add another layer of understanding. Or, if time is limited, going over handwritten notes immediately after the lecture to highlight, edit or add stuff would be beneficial.

This is the research that I have been foisting upon my students for almost ten years. They still don't listen

This is the research that I have been foisting upon my students for almost ten years. They still don't listen

This is the research that I have been foisting upon my students for almost ten years. They still don't listen

My daughter handwrote for term 1 but her friends told her she was wasting her time and being inefficient. 😁