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 ...

Writing thank you notes might be one job plenty of people would be willing to let AI and robots take over. Turns out, they already are. The company Handwrytten deploys artificial intelligence to help ...

Glancing across a Dartmouth classroom, it can be hard not to notice the different ways students take notes. Some hands, with pen or pencil in hand, rapidly fly across a sheet of paper, while others ...

Imagine you’re a student in high school or college. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple ...

While the Amazon Kindle does simulate the experience of reading a paper book, it doesn't let you hand-write notes onto the pages – at least, not until now. The new Kindle Scribe allows users to do ...

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

I realized that I've always written thank-you notes from a place of guilt. I recently decided to stop writing them, and I'm not making my kids write them, either. We express our gratitude in other ...