Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting

Re:Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting by bpyne on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:54AM (#15788248)

I'm of the same opinion. I realized in college that I can write or think about the material being presented, but I can't do them simultaneously. So, I stopped taking notes and relied much more on memory and text books. I'm still that way in the work world.

My major was math. It would have been significantly better for my learning if we spent class time solving problems rather than watching the professor write out a proof, which was often enough already in the text. Active learning is really critical for me.

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Re:Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting by shortoncash on Monday November 27, 2017 @11:10AM (#15788380)

We are similar and I studied math as well.

I solved this problem by just buying a friend coffee regularly in exchange for notes. She used to take fantastic notes and they were probably the reason I even excelled in a lot of classes. However, there was no substitute for being deeply engrossed in whatever the lecturer was saying. My only regret is not having figured this out sooner.

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Re:Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting by sand500 on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:06PM (#15788878)

Same for me. I could take notes but then I would just be blindly copying what was on the board.

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