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Thing is, making you write what you hear improves meomory and info retention and retrieval. PDFs Are a nice tool for the big books where you need lots of texts
by leidenfrost 3y ago
Thing is, making you write what you hear improves meomory and info retention and retrieval.
PDFs Are a nice tool for the big books where you need lots of texts, images and diagrams. The scribbles are more for helping to remember past lectures.
But when everything is a PDF, knowledge becomes too fleeting to even remember past the exams.
- jacobolus 3y agoPlease don't speak for everyone. I learn best from lectures by paying careful attention with my eyes and ears, and keeping the narrative flow structured in my brain; trying to write a substantial amount disrupts my focus and leads to dramatically worse understanding/retention. Other people learn best from lectures by writing everything down (but never looking at it again); just the act of writing helps them focus. Still others learn best from writing without worrying about understanding the first time, and then afterward repeatedly reading their written notes. (If I wanted to be e.g. an ethnographer or journalist, I would have to be the type to write notes after the conversation, rather than during.)