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Re:The Cornell Note Taking System
by mathman314 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:38PM
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Were? It still happens. My friend's kids are forced to use such a system now.
Note taking is about the note taker's relationship with the subject so it's idiosyncratic. A potentially useful technique can become a harmful prescription by stupid teachers.
Showing student's lots of techniques and helping them develop there own methods seems more useful.
But it is easier to make a rubric to test stuff like this then help a kid figure out what works.
Re:The Cornell Note Taking System
by garbagecoder on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:25PM
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Thanks for the edit because most students have no clue how to do it at all. Sure, doesn’t work for everyone, but at least a way to do it can be taught. It’s like handwriting. Almost no one reproduces the letters perfectly, we all have our own writing but if we didn’t start with the standard letters we’d have no place to start.
I imaging most people on this site did ok in school.
Re:The Cornell Note Taking System
by core-utility on Saturday January 07, 2023 @08:02PM
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I was this generation, we literally got graded on how well we followed the format of taking notes this way. I hate(d) the system and would only do the bare minimum to get the grade, meanwhile leaving me with notes that were near useless to me because they couldn't just let me take notes outline style like a teacher 2 years prior had taught (and I voluntarily adopted because it happened to work well for me)
There is an entire generation of school children (at the very least in my locality) who were forced to use an incredibly poor implementation of this method by teachers who barely understood the intent themselves.
On which we were punished for not doing correctly.
The biggest gripe I had about this method was that the lessons in middle school and high school never had enough information density to make this meaningful in any way.
Anyways, I can’t take notes like this anymore. Being punished an entire letter grade for not having enough questions on my notes when I was aceing every single test made me never want to take notes like this ever again.