When I was in high school, I got a special exemption to be allowed to use a laptop to take notes because my hand would cramp trying to jot down everything the t

When I was in high school, I got a special exemption to be allowed to use a laptop to take notes because my hand would cramp trying to jot down everything the teacher wanted us to. Once I was at university, everybody was using a laptop. They were incredibly distracting. I now know that I never needed one. If a teacher uses the Socratic method, I learn very effectively as long as the dialogue is engaging. Note taking slows me down and doesn’t allow to me fully process what has been said. I always had to spend a large amount of time reviewing the notes after class and realized how much didn’t soak in when I was taking them. The issue was, far too many teachers would add one random bit of trivia into a quick sentence they said and use that as a question on the next exam. Even if that bit of knowledge wasn’t in the related books or could be naturally deduced by understanding the topic. The best teachers I had didn’t require me to use laptops. I realize that now that I am attending Greek school as an adult and only use a small notepad to take quick notes on something to follow up with later like vocab to add to Anki. A class of 12 engaged in dialogue is far more effective for myself.