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  • I was in high school during the early 2000s (which is mostly what I’m thinking of). I had unusable dial-up internet living in the middle of nowhere, so it’s not exactly like I’m so young and I just didn’t take notes because I can look up everything later.

    People have different learning styles—I learn by listening. Taking notes (and being forced to simply copy everything on the board) distracts from that, so I’m later forced to review everything again instead of simply picking it up by listening in the moment.



  • Forcing students to take notes is counterproductive: I was most successful in those classes in which I wasn’t forced to take notes. It only ever distracted me from listening to the teacher.

    Also, for foreign language classes actually being forced to speak the language in class is so valuable. I had one teacher who focused on big cultural projects with very little language instruction and her students (including me) all did pretty poorly.






















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