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Ditto, EE too. I bought a copy of Abramowitz and Stegun just for the great table of Laplace Transforms. If I were a professor, I’d ban all electronics from th
by madengr 8y ago
Ditto, EE too. I bought a copy of Abramowitz and Stegun just for the great table of Laplace Transforms.
If I were a professor, I’d ban all electronics from the room. All the decent professors handed out copies of the notes anyway, or wrote them in real-time on an overhead projector, for easy copying later.
- andrepd 8y agoRidiculous. You're forcing your own preferences and quirks onto a class-full of students. They are adults, they can make their own decisions and do what suits them best. As we can see from this very article what works for some does not match what works for you.
- srean 8y ago> They are adults, they can make their own decisions and do what suits them best They can, but do they ? Given my experience as a student in the US long time ago, it rarely seemed so. I am all for treating them as adults as long as its not disturbing/distracting others in the class.
- ivanbakel 8y agoThen you'd be a terrible professor, because that attitude is not pro-learning. Students take their own notes because writing is an aid to memory. Students take electronic notes because those notes are easier to organise, edit, and search through. Many "decent" professors will not hand out notes, and the writings they put on the projector might be scanned and put online, but those writings have none of the benefits of actually typeset notes. Moreover, since you would ban electronics, students couldn't access those scans in a later lecture anyways.
- madengr 8y agoYep, I’ll be just like this guy. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ksnt.com/amp/news/local-news/ku-professor-removed-from-teaching-class-after-telling-student-to-learn-english-/1835483764 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ksnt.com/amp/news/local-new...
- jki275 8y agoYou know people used to hand-write notes, right? The act of writing them actually helps one to remember -- I never went back and organized, edited, or searched through notes I took, because I remembered most of the material, and what I didn't was in the book.
- andrepd 8y ago>You know people used to hand-write notes, right? They also used to write cuneiform :p What's your point here? >The act of writing them actually helps one to remember Source for this, in comparison to typing?
- jki275 8y agoIt’s been widely reported for several years. Here’s the first link I found. www.medicaldaily.com/why-using-pen-and-paper-not-laptops-boosts-memory-writing-notes-helps-recall-concepts-ability-268770%3famp=1
- zrobotics 8y agoWell, I gave up entirely on taking notes in high-school because laptops weren't allowed, and I can barely read my handwriting if I'm quickly taking notes. Whereas in uni I actually used my notes, and have even referred to them years later since they're actually readable and useful. Granted, I would have them 1/2 typed while reading the material before lecture and did a final-draft cleanup after lecture, but typed notes were far more helpful than handwritten notes. Assuming that everyone learns the same way you do is just false. Some people really like mind maps, I don't find them personally helpful but I don't tell people it's a useless technique or that they're wrong. If a student can't be trusted to have a laptop without spending the lecture browsing Facebook, then why should the lecturer care? That student is only hurting their own academic performance, it shouldn't stop others from being able to learn in a manner that benefits themselves.
- jki275 8y agoHave you ever sat in the back row of a lecture hall and watched what the students are doing on their laptops?