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Then 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
by ivanbakel 8y ago
Then 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?
- ivanbakel 8y agoWhat does that have to do with anything?
- jki275 8y agoA lot. Laptops are generally disruptive to the entire class, and (anecdotally, but I’ve done a lot of higher learning) almost all of their use is not for note taking or anything related to the class. So why not ban them? Many professors do.
- asimilator 8y agoSo when you get to the real world and everyone in the meeting is on their laptop? ...