Note Taking And Other Study Skills Online Do Not Seem To Be Effective

ONLINE TOOLS DON’T HELP STUDY SKILLS
A study of undergraduate note-taking and studying online has found that students have taken lousy study skills from the pre-Internet era and simply moved them online. The study was published in the Journal of Educational Psychology. A summary of the findings in Science Daily states that students “mindlessly over-copy long passages verbatim, take incomplete or linear notes, build lengthy outlines that make it difficult to connect related information, and rely on memory drills like re-reading text or recopying notes.” This information is from Carnegie Foundation.

I talked with a research university professor who walked around classes and saw what students were doing when their lap tops were open during  a lecture. Two thirds were doing something else than taking class notes., or anything related to the class. Maybe professors should not pass out their power points before classes begin , or use other teaching techniques.