Note Taking

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Anonymous wrote:It is mind-blowing that they don't teach kids how to take notes or study in middle school.

Note taking was important when the teacher (and the text book) was the only source of the information. And then came the internet with all the information taught in MS/HS easily available in multiple formats. What really is the point of notes anymore? Good classroom teachers don't just "lecture" to students anymore. They have a variety of activities, simulations, labs, readings, etc. to engage students in the material. Copying from slides is not engaging to students at all, and a terrible way to learn material.

The research on handwriting does not support your argument. Writing something helps create neuronal connections/memories that typing or reading from a screen do not.

That's what Luddites say.

No, that's what an academic department chair at a university with more than 20 years of teaching experience from freshman through doctoral says. (And I'm not even the one who originally wrote it.)

So academic department chair is a Luddite?

Apparently Luddites are the only ones to read scientific research...

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Anonymous wrote:It is mind-blowing that they don't teach kids how to take notes or study in middle school.

Note taking was important when the teacher (and the text book) was the only source of the information. And then came the internet with all the information taught in MS/HS easily available in multiple formats. What really is the point of notes anymore? Good classroom teachers don't just "lecture" to students anymore. They have a variety of activities, simulations, labs, readings, etc. to engage students in the material. Copying from slides is not engaging to students at all, and a terrible way to learn material.

The research on handwriting does not support your argument. Writing something helps create neuronal connections/memories that typing or reading from a screen do not.

That's what Luddites say.

No, that's what an academic department chair at a university with more than 20 years of teaching experience from freshman through doctoral says. (And I'm not even the one who originally wrote it.)

So academic department chair is a Luddite?

No, academic department chair refuses to take the easy way out, because academic department chair feels a strong sense of responsibility towards students and those who fund them. It's a lot simpler to just let the students play with tech in class (or outside of class, if they'd rather watch recordings than actually attend) than it is to teach them how to organize information in real time, synthesize new input with older material, summarize arguments, and perform actual analysis instead of just writing up content summaries. They'd rather download PowerPoints and believe that they have what they need to do well, but that's not learning, and that's not what parents, guardians, and givers of scholarships are paying me for.