+ - Ask Slashdot: best way to take notes in the modern classroom? 3
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Krau Ming
Krau Ming writes "After about 8 years spent in research, I've made the decision to go back to school... medical school. When I last spent the bulk of my days sitting in lectures, I took notes with paper, and if the professor wasn't technologically impaired, he/she would have posted powerpoint slides as a pdf online for us to print and make our notes on. Since it has been so long, I am looking for some options other than the ol' pen and paper. Is there an effective way of taking notes with a laptop? What about tablet options? Are there note-taking programs that can handle a variety of file types (eg: electronic textbooks, powerpoint slides, pdfs)? Or should I just sleep in and get the lectures posted online and delay learning the course material until the exam (kidding)? Thanks Slashdot!"
Paper and pencil (Score:2)
I just graduated last May. For a humanities class (where notes were all text) you might have 10% of the students taking notes on a laptop. For science or math classes, it was below 1%. There's a reason for that. Paper and pencil is still the easiest, cheapest, and most effective method.
The only place I saw any significant number of students using laptops were computer science classes -- and then it was still at most five out of thirty students using them, and those five were either playing games/checking Fa
Just record the lecture (Score:2)
You can do that with a phone or a computer, you'll have the whole thing to go back to, and you're actually listening to the instructor rather than trying to pay attention to what (s)he says while writing.
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