Should Kepler Students Take Note By Hand Essay

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Should Kepler Students Take Notes by Hand?
Most of universities which use blended learning system, students always take note using their computer. However the research shows that taking note by hand is more effective because it increases students ability to maintain information longer (Meyer), it improves writing and reading skills (Chemin), and also it expands student’s ability to generate more ideas (Konnikova). Hence, for Kepler to produce competitive students in job market, instructors should encourage students to take note by hand instead of computer.
Why should Kepler students take note by hand? Well, according to the research made by Mueller a graduate student in psychology department at Princeton. Shows that it is easy for any student to answer remembering realities questions; however students who take note by hand perform best on conceptual questions than others who don’t. You may wonder why? The main reason that those students perform well is because when they are taking note their process information in their mind (Meyer). Which increase their ability to have a good long-term comprehension. This means …show more content…

In order to think critically, you have to be able to generate more ideas in short time and then analyses them. According to Konnikova, act of taking note by hand has a great contribution in the process of idea generation. Which means that while taking note by hand our ability of generating more ideas increases. He also mention that when children take note by hand, an increase in three areas of the brain such as left fusiform gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus and posterior parietal cortex occurs as it does when adults read and write. This proves that we are more luckily to generate more ideas on something if we are writing using our hands. In addition, employers want someone who think critically because that is the right person who can help him expand his

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