https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/06/01/longhand-luddites-and-a-plea-for-pencraft/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/06/01/longhand-luddites-and-a-plea-for-pencraft/#comment-49360 Sun, 05 Jun 2016 19:37:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24112#comment-49360 Beautifully and gently said, and I appreciate that it was written from the perspective of one who is not technology-averse. I’m not currently in a classroom setting, but I do use a pen and notebook for weekly sermon notes, which I’ve found I refer back to for years. Handwriting these notes allows me much more flexibility than an electronic format.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/06/01/longhand-luddites-and-a-plea-for-pencraft/#comment-49359 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 09:32:50 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24112#comment-49359 […] and Productivity: Longhand Luddites – This is a helpful article on why you should put the computer down, and pick up your […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/06/01/longhand-luddites-and-a-plea-for-pencraft/#comment-49356 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:15:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24112#comment-49356 It also helps if the lectures are recorded. This way you can go back and see what you missed in your notes. The material will “stick” better and you could use the second hearing as a way to transfer notes to a digital medium.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/06/01/longhand-luddites-and-a-plea-for-pencraft/#comment-49355 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:39:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24112#comment-49355 It’s funny to read that students are returning to the “old” technology I used through high school, university and grad school. I used a clipboard with notebook paper writing on one side of the page then consolidating the notes on the back side of the page when I got home. This allowed me to compare the notes with the text books and eliminate mistakes.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/06/01/longhand-luddites-and-a-plea-for-pencraft/#comment-49351 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 22:10:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24112#comment-49351 Even as an IT professional, I disliked note taking on a laptop in my modular seminary classes. However, I have always experimented with technologies that offer a stylus. It is what I recommend to future students. I would be curious how you would feel with a middle-ground of a Samsung Note device or Microsoft Surface and inking on OneNote.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/06/01/longhand-luddites-and-a-plea-for-pencraft/#comment-49349 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:35:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24112#comment-49349 I just attended a week long module at my seminary where we met from 9:00-4:00 every day. I do not have a laptop (I use a desktop by choice) so I took what I always take: a Leuchtturm1917 squared notbook and a Staedler mechanical pencil. I left every class kind of wishing that we could have had another 30 minutes or so of discussion.

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