Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. laptop and a notebook, and a piece of paper is bouncing between them like they're playing a game of tennis How you prefer to take ...

Note-taking can help in class or a meeting—and if you do them right, they'll help you afterward as well. Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity ...

Note-taking is a valuable skill that can come in handy throughout your college career and beyond. Whether you’re trying to learn new material, prepare for an exam or simply get through a fast-paced ...

Taking effective, meaningful notes is a crucial skill. Not only do good notes help you recall important information when you review them, actually just writing things down can help you learn that ...

This year I tried a new writing practice in my 8th grade English class, and it led me to an important realization about writing development. Like many great classroom moments, this one happened by ...

Kids are adaptable, and if you put a rule in place, they will find a way to get around it. Case in point: school cell phone bans. As more and more states are banning phones in school, they have to get ...

NYC teacher offers suicide writing class to ease fear of death, prevent suicide. May 23, 2013— -- Philosophy professor Simon Critchley from New York City's New School said he believes that the ...

Instapoetry. I will never, ever miss an opportunity to bash it. Published screenshots of lazy three-line verses, they are everything they sound like. Uninteresting, unoriginal, unstructured and ...

Thousands of people now speak to their smart devices to make their grocery lists. Students are more likely to type out notes in class than write them down. And we often type or dictate calendar ...

I’m sure you’ve heard that if you want to achieve a goal, you need to write it down. I know it sounds a bit cliché, but it actually does work. One of my studies, called "The Gender Gap and ...

Many students bring laptops to class, thinking that typing their notes will make them better learners than the 'old fashioned' method of writing by hand. They're wrong. Taking notes is not about ...

Tired of writing class notes by hand? Digital note-taking offers many practical advantages. We show you how to use Microsoft OneNote to format, organize, and preserve your class notes. I’ve been ...