Handwriting v. Laptops? Why People Ask the Wrong Question (and Why Think Pair Share Rules Yet Again)

By Cathy Davidson. Do students learn less when they are taking notes on a laptop than they learn when they take notes in a lecture class by handwriting?  Apparently, according to this one much-quoted popular report on an actual study, the answer is yes.  ( I'll add something later, in the Comments section, about the study itself, which apparently does not say some of what the media says), but the point is why do people keep asking this question, the wrong question:  handwriting versus laptops in a lecture hall.   Okay, so if that is your binary, maybe you should have them take notes. More...