Participants in the laptop note-taking group used a word processing program to take notes.
Participants in distracted conditions (1, 4, & 6) performed worse on the post-test than participants in the non-distracted control, paper-and-pencil, and laptop note-taking groups.
Two-hundred and four university students were randomly assigned to one of six classroom conditions: (1) Facebook distracted; (2) paper note-taking; (3) no media use control group; (4) mixed distraction; (5) laptop note-taking; and (6) distracted combination.
Aside from that, Laptop notes some subtle updates in the form of a chassis similar to the 901 series (except for the round edges), a new logo on the lid, slightly separated touchpad buttons, and the assumption that these machines will use Intel's Atom processor.
"The very feature that makes laptop note-taking so appealing -- the ability to take notes more quickly -- was what undermined learning," educational psychologist Kenneth Kiewra told the Wall Street Journal.
The Taiwan-based company has announced five laptops (note: I refuse to use the term "notebook" when referring to laptops; I think the name "netbook" is dumb, too, so at least I'm consistent) that range in size from 13.3 inches to 17.3 inches, all of which use Optimus.
Recent Princeton University and University of California studies took this into account while investigating the differences between note-taking on a laptop and note-taking by hand.
Some examples are obvious: a laptop permits note-taking at the library or lecture hall.
Hunched over a laptop taking notes, he barely looked up as a group of child actors rehearsed a scene in which they bang out a passage from "The Magic Flute".
Her laptop and notes for a paper on Descartes recently disappeared from her hotel room in Birmingham, England, but Stevenson's aunt had fortunately saved some of the research and early drafts.
