Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: meeting minutes

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

That doesn't really seem relevant to me. The goal of college note taking is
to enhance the understanding of the note taker herself. The goal of minute
taking is for the benefit of others. What enhances one's own learning
process is different than what helps others who couldn't be there
understand what they missed.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:42 AM Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
wrote:

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> A total coincidence but the Harvard Business Review is reporting the
> results of a study on taking verbatim notes on a laptop vs taking notes
> with a pen and paper.
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> https://hec.su/bxlG
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> The context was a college lecture setting. Consistently the pen and paper
> notetakers out performed the laptop notetakers on exams. The laptop note
> takers recorded a larger amount of notes, but the longhand note takers
> performed better on both conceptual and factual questions. They remembered
> more information more meaningfully.
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> Even when laptop users were instructed to take the same kind of notes the
> pen and paper students were taking, they still took transcript notes and
> still did as poorly on exams. The laptop makes it too easy to transcribe
> without thinking.
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> In a discussion in a meeting, there is even more going on than the words
> spoken.
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> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines, Washington DC
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> "The truth is more important than the facts." Frank Lloyd Wright
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