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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If my students who don't have classroom accommodations (and I know who the accommodated students are: I have their paperwork) are _not_ taking notes, it makes me assume all kinds of things about their academic work before they ever turn anything in.  And most of my assumptions turn out to be true.

If you don't have a need for learning accommodations, take notes, by hand, on paper, with a pen, while the professor is speaking.  It is one of the best ways to learn, and annotating on a computer doesn't do it.  Neither does recording class on your phone and assuming that just because you have it you know it.  Or you could know it.[/quote]

Yeah, why bother thinking when you can be transcribing?
Oh, because the school threw away the textbooks except for the one the teacher reads to you. [/quote]

Same PP.  The whole point of taking notes is that notetaking is _not_ transcribing.  It is pulling out important ideas and summarizing them, making lists of key words and ideas, jotting down reminders of what to look up later, creating an outline of the lecture...  It is about the furthest thing in the world from transcribing, which is why it is a learning experience.  Kids who haven't been taught _not_ to transcribe quickly get lost and discouraged. [/quote]

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