Tuesday 19 January 2010

Students taking notes

Just some comments about what I have observed about student note taking recently.

One star note taker was taking handwritten notes in two colours with a highlighter - so coordinating 3 pens at once.

Interesting increase in the number of laptops and electronic notebooks in some lectures - observed one student who appeared to have downloaded the powerpoint slides as a text document and was formatting it and adding the occasional note during the lecture.  Other students follow the powerpoint on their own screen.  Some alternate between the powerpoint and wikipedia or facebook (the latter perhaps demonstrating less engagement perhaps).

David Andrew
Head of Academic Practice
Educational and Staff Development: Queen Mary, University of London


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