This observation about students today will make you feel very old (and a bit jealous)
Here’s someone called Stephanie who made this observation about how students work while listening to lectures today.
Well, not ALL students. Just the smart ones by the looks of it.
https://twitter.com/mckellogs/status/811339472205910016
As they took notes, they would mark places they were confused or couldn’t follow the lecture–other students would see & explain, real time
— stephanieeeeeek! 👻 (@mckellogs) December 20, 2016
at the end of the semester, as they are prepping for finals, they have this massive document of notes, questions, & explanations from peers
— stephanieeeeeek! 👻 (@mckellogs) December 20, 2016
I dunno where they learned this, or if they just came up with it together, but it is AMAZING. Truly brilliant collaboration & solidarity.
— stephanieeeeeek! 👻 (@mckellogs) December 20, 2016
Part of me wants to incorporate this activity intentionally– I wonder how it would work. Would they be less inclined if it was mandated?
— stephanieeeeeek! 👻 (@mckellogs) December 20, 2016
Have any of y'all profs tried this or seen this play out? @icpetrie is this a thing that they are taught, or what?
— stephanieeeeeek! 👻 (@mckellogs) December 20, 2016
Students is smart as hell, y’all.
— stephanieeeeeek! 👻 (@mckellogs) December 20, 2016
Except people were divided over whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing.
There were people like this (it’s Jeremy Vine everybody!)
The end of learning. pic.twitter.com/jGB0wKz0U9
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) October 22, 2018
And then there were people like this.
Far from being “the end of learning” this is a brilliant example of collaboration. Old people: don’t be scared of this. People in 2018 don’t have to learn in the same way as people in 1958 https://t.co/1n90itCLH6
— Sam Bailey (@samuelbailey) October 23, 2018
But there’s one thing we can all agree on (well, probably).
Generational shift. pic.twitter.com/coJeziZ3i2
— John Robb (@johnrobb) October 19, 2018
There were questions though.
how did'nt they end up a hundred students writing the same sentence at the same time ?
— Romain Bou (@romainbousson) October 19, 2018
What we did in my class was assign 2/3 people to notetaking and others would read & comment
— Lexane Chillax 🍁 (@lexanesirac) October 19, 2018
And the debate continued …
Using computers to take notes impairs retention of knowledge.
— Marius Loots (@MaeztroML) October 20, 2018
Not really, when you're aware what you're doing.
Biggest problem is that you can write faster on a computer and take notes of everything. So you need to force yourself to select the important things like you would do when writing.
Otherwise there's no difference I know of.— Georg Friedrich (@trickser26) October 20, 2018
I heard that, in true dystopian fashion, this practice has been banned at some universities /colleges. Why I have no idea.
— Chevy Kaylor (@ChevyKaylor) October 20, 2018
Some see competition if shared outside of class… Others have 'ideas' about "doing it yourself" and what that means. And still a bunch that think "if you don't write everything down by hand, you can't possibly remember it". I have responses to each, but they get uncivil fast
— Jake Nelson (@JakeNelsonMN) October 20, 2018
Here’s an idea – people should stop tweeting about it and just discuss the idea in a giant Google doc. See you there!