I really really don't like reading studying material from a computer monitor tbh. Dunno why but I just can't stand it.
pen & paper all the way.
pen & paper all the way.
inane little opines
I'd also like to revise that to "there is a mnemonic quality to simply writing something out rather than clacking away at a keyboard."Shahter wrote:
this^. taking notes is a skill in itself. a very useful one.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
There's an almost mnemonic quality to simply writing something out rather than clacking away at a keyboard. Sharing notes on a regular basis isn't doing anyone long-term favors.
Last edited by menzo (2011-06-20 15:29:38)
Last edited by Uzique (2011-06-21 02:23:00)
lulz. i just have the lecture notes on my lappy and just type my own notes on the bottom of powerpoint in the comment section.Uzique wrote:
we have online powerpoints and resources, too... but to me that's even less of a reason to take a laptop. you can hear the expert explain it to you, face-to-face, in the lecture theatre... surely the idea of web resources is that you can download them and revise from them anytime? i dunno... after 3 years of lecture-heavy teaching i have a long list of complaints about the format. i really love academic lectures in principle, but it's the other people you have to share it with that suck. undergrads are cunts.
I understand. I had surgery on my right elbow. I was losing the feeling in the right hand and it was difficult to control my pressure (cubital tunnel). I started writing with my left after surgery and now I favor writing with my left over my right. I was fairly ambidextrous to begin with though .Cybargs wrote:
i got a fractured finger on my right hand that makes my handwriting horrid when i write fast... yeah shit fucking sucks when i have to write for exams lol i just need to write REALLY REALLY goddamn slow. yeah i get marks off sometimes for neatness shit fucking sucks lol.
Last edited by Uzique (2011-06-21 02:57:33)
Then again the same goes for missing said lecture by lying in your bed!Uzique wrote:
not to mention that with student fees over here and the average number of contact-hours per week, a lecture ends up costing like £250 for the hour...
that's an expensive facebook session!
yeah least you dont annoy other people at schoolRDMC wrote:
Then again the same goes for missing said lecture by lying in your bed!Uzique wrote:
not to mention that with student fees over here and the average number of contact-hours per week, a lecture ends up costing like £250 for the hour...
that's an expensive facebook session!
Since I can use both maybe that means I'm batting both ways .Uzique wrote:
left-handedness is often associated with advanced systematizing ability or 'genius', though, owing to developments of testosterone changing the structure of the brain in the early stages of pre-gender foetalhood. so look on the bright-side, you now come across as being intelligent as well as 'mild' on the autistic spectrum.
that or gay. left-handed people are queer.
There's something about the way the brain processes reading and writing, compared with typing.Uzique wrote:
profs ban laptops because a) they're fucking noisy, b) it's not much fun lecturing to the back of a laptop, c) the internet/computers are a huge distraction, whereas a pen and paper aren't (doodles notwithstanding). i'd be pissed too if i'd trained for 8 years to reach a lectureship position and then had to spend my days talking to a bunch of 18 year old morons engrossed in farmville and checking their facebook picture comments.
and i type about 4x faster than i write... that doesn't mean anything. when i write notes, they're absorbed better. touch typing is a mechanical action - thoughtless, easy, detached - whereas writing and formulating sentences with a pen somehow involves a little more engagement and cognition. don't quote me on the science behind that but i think newbie is onto something with his mnemonics-of-writing. there's a reason why people for years and years have recommended copying/re-writing notes as a primary revision technique.