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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again - I am a professor and I require my intro students to handwrite notes for credit (unless they have a specific typing accommodation).   They grumble and some try to submit typed notes and I give them zeros until they rewrite them.  Many of them tell me mid-way through the semester that they are really learning and that the handwritten notes actually help!  [/quote]

You are a college professor?  That seems very hand-holding for college.

Don’t get me wrong, the science is on your side as far as handwriting is the way to reinforce the knowledge.  I’m just surprised a college professor would require this and give credit for it.  Seems like a middle/high school thing.[/quote]

Yup - it is hand holding and crazy, I agree.  FWIW - this is a community college, so some of my students are coming in without study skills, but some are high performers.  By the time they get to my advanced classes, I expect them to know how to take good notes without me telling them to.  Took years for me to break down to this level, but I eventually came to the decision that my goal was for my students to learn, and I do whatever I can to facilitate that.  The points only add up to about 1% of their grade, but it's an incentive to do the work.  Too many kids are not learning basic note-taking skills in high school anymore, so it's pushed off to the college profs to deal with the repercussions.  It's not only an issue at community colleges, as you can tell from the kids/parents posting about it on DCUM.[/quote]

I’m the person who asked if it was college.  Makes more sense for community college and good for you.  They have to learn study skills somewhere so it’s great that you do that.  If you were at a top college I’d roll my eyes with all of the bragging parents do on here about what great students their kids are.  Both of my kids take handwritten notes, but one has dysgraphia so sometimes cannot later read their notes and has to go back to class recordings or ask classmates.[/quote]

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