Good note taking skills start before the class begins. It is important to read all the required assignments ahead of time. Lectures are designed to supplement the reading assignments, not replace them ...

A recent New York Times article, Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting, resumed the debate over whether laptops and other digital devices should be banned from classrooms, and if ...

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

This article was updated on October 10, 2023, with additional contributions by Mars Girolimon. How you take notes can affect how much information you’re able to recall. You could make reviewing course ...

There are so many factors that go into a class that could either make it dreadful or enjoyable. There’s the subject, the teacher and something often overlooked – class notes. Class notes play a huge ...

The Daily Campus Life section discusses their favorite form of taking notes in classes, whether that be handwriting or typing digitally. Illustration by Van Nguyen/The Daily Campus. Once students at ...