Adding to the challenges is note-taking from online resources. Piolat, Olive, and Kellogg (2005) suggested that notetaking
is more demanding than reading as students need to comprehend what they are reading, select important
points, and record them. Typical problems in middle school students’ note-taking from online resources include
copying information verbatim with little thinking, manual recording on paper that is time-consuming and error-prone,
and taking notes irrelevant to their research questions (Zhang & Quintana, 2012). Moreover, notes taken on paper are
often disconnected to the original sources. When students forget to record the URL of a site in their notes, it is
difficult to return to the original website.