http://www.shawnday.com/randomosity/2007/09/07/notetaking/ strikingly random thoughts and 'maximum data existentialisation' Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:55:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.shawnday.com/randomosity/2007/09/07/notetaking/#comment-1208 This Cornell Note-Taking Thing » randomosity » Blog Archive This Cornell Note-Taking Thing » Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:31:52 +0000 http://shawnday.com/randomosity/2007/09/07/notetaking/#comment-1208 [...] week I pointed readers to the excellent article by Dustin Wax comparing note-taking methodologies and weighing the pros and cons of a couple techniques. I was not personally aware of the Cornell [...] […] week I pointed readers to the excellent article by Dustin Wax comparing note-taking methodologies and weighing the pros and cons of a couple techniques. I was not personally aware of the Cornell […]

]]> http://www.shawnday.com/randomosity/2007/09/07/notetaking/#comment-1123 Dustin Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:56:34 +0000 http://shawnday.com/randomosity/2007/09/07/notetaking/#comment-1123 Thanks as always. This is the other side of professor's complaints about student note-taking, I think: the unwillingness to imagine ourselves in their shoes. We remember when we were students and how nobody needed to hold our hands -- but professors are, by definition, academically talented (or desperately misguided in their career choices!). We are usually the top few percent of our academic cohorts, people who are innately drawn to academic pursuits and comfortable in that milieu. Most of our students are like most of the people we went to school with (but paid little attention to): much less interested and much less innately skilled/talented at the "stuff" of academic life. Unless we resign ourselves to teaching the few percent of our students who are basically like us, we have to think about how these skills and talents can be developed in people to whom they don't come naturally -- as well as figuring out what might work better for those students. Thanks as always. This is the other side of professor’s complaints about student note-taking, I think: the unwillingness to imagine ourselves in their shoes. We remember when we were students and how nobody needed to hold our hands — but professors are, by definition, academically talented (or desperately misguided in their career choices!). We are usually the top few percent of our academic cohorts, people who are innately drawn to academic pursuits and comfortable in that milieu. Most of our students are like most of the people we went to school with (but paid little attention to): much less interested and much less innately skilled/talented at the “stuff” of academic life. Unless we resign ourselves to teaching the few percent of our students who are basically like us, we have to think about how these skills and talents can be developed in people to whom they don’t come naturally — as well as figuring out what might work better for those students.

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