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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh god….Get him OTTER.AI and NotebookLM.
It will change his life and make him super organized and effective.

record Lectures with Otter AI. Then export transcripted lecture to notebookLM.

get the online versions of the Textbooks and upload to the same folder no NotebookLM and Boom! You are way ahead than 99% of the people.[/quote]

What the heck is this?[/quote]

Your kids will know. If they dont, tell them to research it. This whole “buy a notebook” BS is old and never going to fly. Waste of time. We live in a tech world and there are tools that EVERY smart student is using right now. Just google OTTER AI and NOTEBOOKLM and you can see. What i suggested is the way to go. You can focus on the classroom while Otter AI records and transcribes the WHOLE class. You can them add this to notebookLM and have it create a full document about the class along with a summary of the most important concepts and even a create a Quiz for you. It will even create a short, medium or long podcast about the subject, It makes learning super easy. You have to really TRY to not want to learn with these tools. [/quote]

Yes, but...

...AI is very, *very* often wrong about what is important or even correct.
...The point of attending class isn't to have a real-time snapshot of content.  It's to interact with new material rapidly, in real time, and perform the difficult intellectual act of following key ideas and distilling them into a personal record of your own learning. 
...Passive listening (which is manifestly not "focusing on the classroom") followed by listening again to a machine summary followed by a self-validating quiz at the level of an HR training doesn't comprise learning, doesn't instill knowledge, and doesn't create understanding.  If it did we'd just all watch YouTube and take personality quizzes instead of going to college.
...Recording class without learning accommodations and permission isn't just an intellectual-property concern.  It's also a privacy problem for the other people in the room, especially if the content is sensitive.
...Pretend this was how your surgeon got through med school: never lifted a pen, cracked a book, or wrote their own lab report.  Ready for your surgery?
...Or pretend your kid came home from a really expensive school and bragged that all they had to do was make sure at least one friend AI-ed every class, and then they were good to go.  Barely knew any of their professors, never bought the books, almost never went to class, pulled off Ds with just enough Cs not to get kicked out.  How are those internship applications going?

Learning takes work.  And no one and nothing can learn for you.  Learning is self-transformation.[/quote]

No you are wrong. Single source document summary is never wrong. Specially with the latest versions. You can cruy about it all your want. The fact is that I can learn the material from a 3 hour class pretty quickly with these tools. Clearly you have not tried it yet or have not been to any top 10 classroom lately. At my school (I’m a Junior at a t10) 90% of the kids in my class are doing this protocol or something very similar. It is a much more efficient way to learn. You get to pay attention in class and interact with your professor. You then have the whole class transcribed and a nice document is created for you for the whole class (not a summary). You can then ask questions and get your answers. If there is a topic in class you were a little confused, you can create a podcast of that specific question and interact with it. The most difficult subjects, if I pay attention in class, it will take me 45 minutes later in that day to master every single concept.

You can leave in past and sink or live in the present. It does take work to learn. But please, be efficient with the work and you can learn faster. It has worked for me.[/quote]

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