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If you're a student looking for the most advanced learning machine available, give laptops a pass—and pick up an age-old notebook.
You'll absorb and retain more information if you take notes by hand, according to a study by UCLA, giving you an edge on your tests.
That spiral-bound stack of paper has other advantages, too: You can't zone out on Facebook and Instagram during a lecture, so you are more likely to stay focused.
Putting pen to paper requires a different kind of mental processing than typing does. Sure, typing on a laptop gives you the power to record a lecture nearly word for word—but transcribing verbatim is associated with what's called "shallow cognitive processing." The words may be captured on your screen, but they basically went in one ear and out the other.
Also, your notebook doesn't run Fortnite.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:58PM (6 children)
In the really slow/obvious classes, I would program a lunar-lander type game on my programmable calculator... it's kind of BASIC and differential equations practical experience, and God knows I wasn't missing anything in the lecture details.
Social media, of all forms, is far more tempting and engrossing than anything you could ever do with a programmable calculator.
If people in-class are going to connect to the network and participate with outside stuff during the lecture, I'd far prefer that they just stay home and remote in to an AV feed from the lecture room. It's the same in work meetings - if there's a 60 minute meeting with 2 minutes of content relevant to me, I'd much rather be 95% productively working in my office, passively listening until the good bit (for me) comes up, then I can chime in via remote, say the 15 seconds of information I need to communicate to the group, answer the 45 seconds of followup questions, and not only save 58 minutes of time sitting in the room being less than 5% productive, but also save the time & energy travelling to-from the room.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 09 2019, @05:13PM (5 children)
I can't imagine what classes would be like today with cell phones going off, social media, etc. Babies crying?
As for work meetings, I don't have it too bad.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 09 2019, @06:59PM (4 children)
My favorite form of this is: the beatings will continue until morale improves.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 09 2019, @07:25PM
I was trying for as many oxymorons into as short a phrase as possible.
The best way to avoid conflict and encourage diversity is to force everyone to voluntarily think alike.
Conflict is created by Diversity.
Diversity is when everyone does not think alike.
Force and Voluntarily.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 09 2019, @07:26PM (2 children)
Here's another one I've posted here a few times:
Religion is the best way to heal a world that is deeply and violently divided by religion.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 09 2019, @08:50PM (1 child)
I wouldn't say it's the best way, perhaps the most frequently attempted way, but based on success rates to-date surely there are better ways out there.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday May 10 2019, @01:39PM
It is to get a laugh more than it is to suggest that as the best way.
The best way to fix your problems with XML is by using more XML.
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