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note taking becoming redundant?
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I have noticed myself taking almost no notes this year... I guess this happens at other uni's too - they put the lecture slides on the net so you can get them anytime...
I think on the technical courses where its kind of hard to expand from the content note taking can become a bit of a waste (half the time i find myself writing something down then missing the next bit of whats getting said)..
anyone else think this?
I think on the technical courses where its kind of hard to expand from the content note taking can become a bit of a waste (half the time i find myself writing something down then missing the next bit of whats getting said)..
anyone else think this?
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I'm also shit at taking notes so I don't take a lot. But that might change as I'm going to need to lose my precious laptop for old fashioned pen and paper on Monday. :nervous:
we get them for free over here
The uni does have all the equipment needed to record lectures, but they don't want to in case attendance plummets. So some students do instead. Sometimes they try to charge, sometimes it enteres the share-pool immediately.
Notes are then put online if you miss the lecture.
I think its good to give students all the help you can but it should be pretty obvious that if you dont make it and take notes/pay enough attention to at least absorb what the tutor is saying, then your gonna get in a mess come assignment/exam time.
However, they do it in my Land Law module and it doesn't really encourage me to go because alot of the time, everything on the handout is repeated. I do though. Its just, if I miss a lecture, I don't feel so guilty sorta thing.
In some cases I do agree with this but not always. There was a mathematics module that I took last semester as part of my course I missed 1 lecture. I thought I would be OK with the lecture notes by they just made no sense at all, I really needed to be in the lecture to have the mathematical notation etc translated to english (effectively). It is also quite typical that the lecture I missed was on the topic of mathematical functions, the only examination question I couldn't answer....
i try and do that when i remember but half of the lectures don't put them on the virtual campus anyway. being a student rep i get lots of people moaning to me about it!