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‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops (www.dazeddigital.com)

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The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage their brains

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I absolutely love doing everything on the computer and can’t stand writing things by hand anymore. I’ve always learned simply by listening — instructors that force students to take notes were the worst because I would be too busy scrambling to write things down than actually listening and learning.

All of this goes out the window when it comes to foreign language though. I have to do everything old school: textbooks, pencil and paper, and if it’s a non-Latin character set I have to write the same characters over and over for hours.

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[–] bryndos@fedia.io 16 points 1 year ago

For me I always wrote as i listened, still do often. I rarely read the notes back.

'Revision' was just writing a whole new set of notes either from memory or from sources. Then, never reading that set of notes.

Massive waste of paper and ink, but it's part of how i pay attention. Most of my lecturers did provide printouts of all the slides, but I'd scribble all over them anyway.

Typing doesn't do the same thing at all for me.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 year ago

I realized that when i tried to cheat on a test in school, that when i prepared a cheat sheet, i didn't actually need it afterwards - that only applies when writing the sheet by hand.

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago*

I always take notes, listening shmistening it's in one ear out the other, reading and writing helps me absorb information much easier, but I never did take notes when we were forced to use pen and paper, once we switched to laptops in high school, I could note down every word because typing is so much easier and faster.