Notes-by hand or laptop?

cbeley
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:34:26 +0000

If your teacher follows the text(s) closely take hand-written notes before class then write down the extra info during class. After class type the notes.

This way you copy the material twice and hear it being presented.

That’s what I do…yep…

That’s actually some pretty good advice. Though, it also depends on the individual’s learning style (quite frankly, writing things down causes me not to be able to memorize material as well as I could just by listening…though, that is assuming that I’m actually interested to an extent about what is being taught…the complete opposite is true for many others though, everyone is different. :))



Seven or eight years ago I was in conversation with a Duke law student and a Case law professor and they each said that is was almost universal at their schools that students used laptops for in-class notes. From my engineering colleagues I know that the opposite is true in most engineering programs.

That isn’t horribly surprising. I have been hearing that blackberries are encouraged for buissness majors, and as a person in law, I imagine you won’t be taking notes or having research printed out on paper (too much of a mess, doesn’t allow you to collaborate, not as easy to consolidate a bunch of information into a small package and have backups of everything).

An enginner, for any field, is probably going to grab a pen and paper to jot some things down and for keeping track of a bunch of little things or for dealing with less-organized thought, pen and paper probably is better. Every game that I have written started with a bunch of notes on paper (though, that may change soon as I can write my diagrams on the computer fairly easy when I get my special mouse).