During WWII, a colonel from Alaska asked Prof. Emeritus Walter J. Pauk to draft a brief guide on how to teach his soldiers to read and study effectively for their correspondence courses. The guide ...

A while back, in my corporate days, I was experiencing this far too often. So I went back to my college days and pulled out a note-taking method I used to use, one of the most popular note-taking ...

There are so many factors that go into a class that could either make it dreadful or enjoyable. There’s the subject, the teacher and something often overlooked – class notes. Class notes play a huge ...

Effective note-taking is a crucial skill for students, emphasizing active listening, processing information, and using techniques like the Cornell method and visual thinking. Experts recommend ...

Many students bring laptops to class, thinking that typing their notes will make them better learners than the 'old fashioned' method of writing by hand. They're wrong. Taking notes is not about ...

The primary purpose of note taking is to encourage active learning and to prepare study materials for exams. Developing note taking skills should help you organize information into an understandable ...

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A few years ago, Nick Milo was using a folder full of plain text files for notes when he found out about Obsidian. The app had just launched in beta, and was getting some buzz on a productivity forum ...

Many students bring laptops to class, thinking that typing their notes will make them better learners than the 'old fashioned' method of writing by hand. They're wrong. Taking notes is not about ...

If there is one essential skill that students should master in schools and universities, it is the art of taking good notes. Notes that are not copied and pasted from professors' slides, not even the ...