Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:33:16AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The contrarian in me would buy him a course in shorthand instead.
> > (I remember that the very act of hand-copying blackboard notes --
> > while thinking about which were the most important -- most
> > successfully burned information into my brain, and typing took too
> > much focus away from other tasks.)
>
> Consider yourself lucky. While in college, I develop (not fully
> willingly) the ability to copy what was written without really paying
> attention to what I wrote. That is not good (and I'm not proud of it),
> but even copying can become and automatic hability.
For me, it was easier to just sit and listen, ask question, understand
the content. No notes. Read the text book. Think. Write essays.
Write the exam. If I understood the content, no notes were necessary.
If I didn't understand the content, no notes could have helped.
Doug.
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