{"id":1761,"date":"2016-04-13T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mylessonslearned.co\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2016-04-13T21:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T21:15:51","slug":"learning-by-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylessonslearned.co\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Learning by Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, there&#8217;s been a lot in the press about the advantages of writing vs typing. They have shown students do better when they take notes writing them down versus typing them into their laptop.\u00a0 Typing doesn&#8217;t give you the same benefits: you&#8217;re now in the mode of court stenographer&#8230;and I find\u00a0it gets in the way of <em>listening. 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