What if I told you that you’ve been taking notes WRONG your whole entire life. Alright well that was pretty dramatic. But the truth is, when I work with students they have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to notes. Should it should be by hand or on their computer, should they write down everything the teacher says or put it in their own words. And worst of all they spend all this time writing these pretty notes with every pen color in the rainbow, just to never to look at them again. So, In this episode of the student performance podcast, I’m going to take a deep dive into the literature on note taking to teach you how to remember everything you write down.

Articles Reviewed In This Podcast

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking

https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/papers/MuellerAndOppenheimer2014OnTakingNotesByHand.pdf

Effects of Cornell, Verbatim and Outline Note-Taking Strategies on Students’ Retrieval of Lecture Information in Nigeria

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234635029.pdf

Using the Cornell Note-taking System Can Help Eighth Grade Students Alleviate the Impact of Interruptions While Reading at Home

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1205170.pdf

Mind Mapping Vs traditional: A comparison of two instructional methods to teach Theories of Growth and Development of children among B.Sc(N) III year students

http://www.pnrsolution.org/Datacenter/Vol3/Issue5/42.pdf

The effect of mind mapping on listening comprehension and vocabulary in early childhood education

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chiel-Van-Der-Veen/publication/315380025_The_effect_of_mind_mapping_on_listening_comprehension_and_vocabulary_in_early_childhood_education/links/58ce59c9a6fdcc5cccbbfe08/The-effect-of-mind-mapping-on-listening-comprehension-and-vocabulary-in-early-childhood-education.pdf

The Influence of Mind Mapping on Eighth Graders’ Science Achievement

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2008.tb17843.xs

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

1:04- Working Memory

3:36- Cognitive Load Theory

6:09- Hand Written vs Computerized Notes

10:12- Linear vs Non-Linear Notes

12:47- Cornell Notes

18:15- How I Take Notes

24:47- Should You Annotate Your Professors’ Slides?

26:08- What if You Don’t Understand What You’re Reading?

27:21- Outro