Taking Notes
Posted by dcollins on September 15th, 2007
Another great LifeHack article: Advice for Students – Taking Notes that Work.
Good notes help you because the classroom setting is not the best palce for thinking and piecing together the new concepts coming at you. Note taking frees your mind from having to remember details and how they fit together. Note taking organizes your thinking.
Write down things like dates, people, ideas, pros/cons, and anything your teacher mentions several times.
Try different note taking techniques. You’ll find one that works for you.
- mind-mapping
- Cornell method
- outlining
- others . . .
