Note-taking is productivity porn from a bygone error before mechanical and computer text reproduction.

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Check community college summer camps.

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.

Or you can buy a notebook at the dollar store.

This is a bit off-topic, but I think many students now take notes on an I-Pad with an Apple pencil and then it converts the handwritten notes to text (I am not 100% sure about the conversion part). You can get a screen cover for the I-Pad that simulates the texture of paper and it makes it easier to take notes.

Yes. They are that dumb. Can barely listen.

Have our kids become that dumb that they can’t listen and write at the same time? Lordy. My kid had to take hand written notes in all classes starting in 6th grade. They were spot checked for a grade. Ditto in HS and some teachers wanted Cornell notes and some wanted a modified T method. Some didn’t care if you took them on your laptop but often part of their homework would be to do recall questions in writing.

Anonymous wrote:I just had a flashback to the notes class our HS had us take before 9th grade. We learned Cornell notetaking.

What's funny about that is that none of the 4 people in my life who went to Cornell knew about note-taking.

My college sophomore was tortured by having to turn in extensive Cornell notes for APUSH. I had never heard of it so I looked it up to ask my family about it.

Now that he's at college there is nothing like the notes busywork imposed by his high school. He loves that. His grades are still good. Things have changed because of computers. A lot of profs share digital files of slides that you can annotate in class. They want you to listen to them talk instead of notetaking. It takes away an excuse to be looking at the computer instead of the prof.

It’s called high school. Why didn’t your kid take notes in high school?

Anonymous wrote:Learning how to learn by Barbara Oakley ( there's a MOOC)
How to be a 4.0 student by cal Newport
How to take smart notes by sonke ahrens
Ultralearning by Scott Young
Understanding how we learn: a visual guide

YouTubers I recommend: Benjamin Keep, Justin Sung. For Obsidian, Nicole van der Hoeven

Are these books?

I just had a flashback to the notes class our HS had us take before 9th grade. We learned Cornell notetaking.

Learning how to learn by Barbara Oakley ( there's a MOOC)
How to be a 4.0 student by cal Newport
How to take smart notes by sonke ahrens
Ultralearning by Scott Young
Understanding how we learn: a visual guide

YouTubers I recommend: Benjamin Keep, Justin Sung. For Obsidian, Nicole van der Hoeven

High school

Is there a study skills or notetaking class you recommend for incoming college freshmen?
Online or in person?