Why We Remember More by Reading Rather Than Audio or Video
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Factors like the tendency to multitask while consuming digital content contribute to this difference. Print is the best way to consume content in terms of concentration, learning, and remembering. During the pandemic, many college professors abandoned assignments from printed textbooks and turned instead to digital texts or multimedia coursework. As a professor of linguistics, I have been studying how electronic communication compares to traditional print when it comes to learning. Is comprehension the same whether a person reads a tex...