This one is about how to effectively take notes.
- Do not write down everything down world-for-word
- Do not even grab exact phrases
- Add flesh to the text within 24 hours
- Write the notes with a pen or pencil, by hand, not by typing on an electronic device.
Benefits:
- To absorb more info
- Have a written record to look back on later
- Do not write down every word.
- Do not grab exact phrases.
- Add flesh within 24 hours.
- Write by hand, dont type.
- Think through the meaning of those words and summarize it.
- Only take note with your own word after you understand it.
- If you don't understand it, just ask (immediately).
- Take 10~15 min to add in other stuff to your note, before go to bed, or within 24 hours.
- Only use pen or pencil.
- Sit at the front row (to avoid any distraction) of the class if professor allow to use laptop to take note.
Notes:
- Student who use laptops in class spent considerable time multitasking.
- the level of laptop use was negatively related to several measures of student learning including self-reported understanding of course material and overall course performance.
- participants who multi-tasked on a laptop during a lecture scored lower on a test compared to those who did not multi-task, and participants who were in direct view of a multitasking peer scored lower on a test compared to those who were not.
- divided attention reduce long-term retention of the classroom lecture, which impaired subsequent unit exam and final exam performance.
- Class-related Internet use was not associated with a benefit to classroom performance.
- [even] there is not wifi or internet access. -- processing get shallower
- Students in the open laptop condition suffered decrements on traditional measures of memory for lecture content.
