Do you take notes with a laptop at school?

I have noticed that a lot of people in my classes have started taking notes with a laptop or tablet instead of a pen and paper. I have a feeling that this will be a new trend because by using an electronic device, you do not need to keep track of every piece of paper. You also have less of a chance of losing or destroying your notes.

The new Surface Pro laptop/tablet hybrid might be the new big thing for students. What are your thoughts?

 

I personally, like taking notes on pen and paper. This is because I learn as I write. It helps me remember things when I have to go back to it. However, a laptop is very convenient and organized, there's just something about note-taking on laptop that doesn't work out for me. I think i'll always be a pen and paper kind of student.

I do see kids in the next 10 to 15 years all using electronics for everything, which will be shame.

 

I usually try and use both my laptop as well as pen and paper. I feel like for some subjects, it's easier to take notes on pen and paper. This may be because there isn't much content in the course. For other subjects, which are filled with content, I feel it's better to take notes on a laptop. On a laptop, you can type up notes at a much faster rate. However, I feel like this is not an efficient method, mainly because you're not retaining any information as you're typing. Also, I feel it makes school kids lazier, which is obviously a negative thing.

 

Absolutely taking notes is essential to your memory this to me is the most important part of your learning process, as it always keeps the original content on the page so when referring back to it you don't have any other false information. I take notes on my note pad every day I have over 100 ideas saved that I can go back and refresh my self on, so even if you completely forget something you will always have organic marital to fall back on. Notes never change their minds only if you edited it with more or less info that it truly needs . So never let anyone tell you taking notes is a waste of time because honestly that person is probably so unorganized they don't know were to find their own socks at home.

 

My high school trialled an optional bring your own device scheme when I was year 9 (age 13). I would estimate that about half of my class had a cheap netbook to use for taking notes, or researching. However, there were many major problems with this, as our class discovered with delight. We could play games, annoy each other with the webcams, and chat to each other, all while appearing to be doing work behind the lids. All I have to say about that year is that I'm not sure what we learned, and that it was chaotic.

I did try to take notes with it, but it was hard to keep track of the huge amount of word documents that I was using, and merge those with the paper notes and worksheets that we were given. Currently, in my final year of high school, my notes are all handwritten. It makes them much easier to file and read when preparing for exams, and minimises distraction for maximum productivity.