Re: [Phys-l] note-taking, or not

[Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu>]

On Apr 30, 2012, at 4:04 PM, John Denker wrote:
> So far as my own personal learning goes, I certainly find 
> it next to impossible to take notes and pay attention at 
> the same time.
>
> OTOH there are a lot of students who insist that the
> /process/ of taking notes in class helps them learn.  I 
> am skeptical of this, and I certainly don't understand it
> ... but I am not quite ready to tell these students they 
> are wrong ... not all of them, anyway.  It may be that 
> some of them are simply better than I am at taking notes, 
> so they can still pay attention while taking notes.
>
> On the third hand, there are some ...

That topic certainly deserves to be discussed. Note taking was a necessity; textbooks did not exist in Poland (during the first decade after WWII, and even later). 

Ludwik
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