by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 11/28/2017 at 11:39
by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 11/28/2017 at 11:39
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But I know this is fake news because there is no mention of students reading the comments on their Oppositelock posts...
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
11/28/2017 at 11:45, STARS: 4
When I was in college in the late 90s, a lot of people had laptops but you would never dare bring them to class, even with 400 students. The professor would probably stare you down and assume you were doing something else. We had to use a pencil to doodle our own porn.
Seriously, though, the act of writing things down and being able to draw charts/graphs/diagrams is so much better on paper and it also leads to better retention for almost everyone. I also don’t think professors should put their notes online, that just encourags laziness. Sure, fraternities, sororities, and notetaking services will always have their archives, but showing up and taking notes is still the best way to learn the material.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
11/28/2017 at 11:48, STARS: 0
solidly disagree. taking notes on laptop is the ONLY way I retain anything. Sometimes I am legit taking word for word minutes. It really helps.
"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
11/28/2017 at 12:02, STARS: 0
Some of the older professors in my university will still pause their lecture, in order to complain about opened laptops.
As I’m from the last generation at my university that got really heavy university issued laptops (later generations got lighter ones) I would never use it in a lecture room, as the flip up tables sometimes fold back down under the weight of my laptop. So paper notes it was for me, and I must say that works way better too.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/28/2017 at 12:02, STARS: 1
In her senior year of college, Mrs. Ttyymmnn managed straight As (it probably helped that I was away at grad school). She took her notes in class in a notebook, then went home and recopied them more coherently in a second notebook. My high school freshman stares at his Chromebook and calls it studying.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 12:11, STARS: 0
I totally concur with everything you’ve written, except that I wouldn’t be drawing porn.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 12:12, STARS: 2
Interesting. I wouldn’t allow laptops unless I had the class doing something that directly required them.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 1
You just don’t have the flexibility to record notes on a laptop like you do on a piece of paper.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 12:17, STARS: 1
I feel.
"diplodicus" (diplodicus)
11/28/2017 at 12:19, STARS: 1
I’ve always found physically writing things helps keep them in my brain. Where I can type stuff out word for word but it just goes right through me.
"TheRevanchist" (therevanchist)
11/28/2017 at 12:19, STARS: 2
Best way to take notes:
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 12:20, STARS: 0
What do you study? In liberal arts classes where everything is words, I could see how a word processor might be helpful. But if it’s mixed information, then that would be tough. I do respect your opinion and if you’ve managed to find a way to make a laptop an effective way to succeed at studies, then more power to you.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 12:21, STARS: 1
Cornell Notes?
"TheRevanchist" (therevanchist)
11/28/2017 at 12:27, STARS: 1
You’re darn skippy there, pardner.
"tpw_rules" (tpwrules)
11/28/2017 at 13:24, STARS: 0
Counterpoint: pen-enabled tablets are the best way to take notes. You get the freedom to draw arbitrarily with the pen, plus a keyboard when convenient. Notetaking software can even help substantially, with the power of searching, copy/paste, rearranging, colors, highlighting, etc that’s difficult or impossible on paper. I would be so much worse off without my tablet.
Some of my classes even require special paper, but it’s better and easier for me to do it on the computer then feed that paper into my printer.
Not to say that boring classes aren’t spent entirely on Jalopnik...
"Azrek" (azrek)
11/28/2017 at 13:28, STARS: 0
I’d take notes in a notebook and then play tetris on my Ti-85 calculator I programmed from a codebook I bought at the store.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 14:00, STARS: 0
But to the original post, that’s not a laptop. My experience with tablets was when iPad first came on the scene and school districts were falling all over themselves trying to buy them and IT people were having nightmares trying to maintain and deploy them. I wrote a masters degree paper on how not-good iPad was for public education.
But I’m sure the apps have matured quite a lot since then. A convertible laptop like a Yoga would probably be the ideal.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 14:02, STARS: 0
PERFECT!!
"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
11/28/2017 at 14:21, STARS: 0
Exactly, you never know when a lecturer might spontaneously draw a graph, or a schematic or whatever (especially in engineering) , and paper has always allowed me to copy it fully.