I used to give out printed copies of my Power Point slides (which I don’t do anymore) so that my students could write on the margins (Power Point has a printing feature that shows the slide and provides space to the right, where you can jot thoughts and commentary. I always assume that when my students don’t take notes it is because they are paying attention to the material I am delivering (I prefer to trust my students than to doubt them). I do believe my students sometimes need laptops, but a portion of the time it creates opportunities for distraction – but that’s not the point of this particular post. I am not going to engage with that discussion because I don’t study this field and I have absolutely no scientific answer for that – Mueller and Oppenheimer 2014 do provide some scientific evidence. There is a lot of discussion in the educational technology community about whether we should let students take noteson a laptop or whether they learn better writing by hand or not, about how challenging it would be for some students with learning and cognitive issues - and this IS an important issue to consider, particularly those for whom handwriting isn’t possible because of disability issues, etc. Sometimes, it weirds me out when a few of my own students don’t take notes, to be perfectly honest. ![]() Through the years, I’ve continued to feel proud about my notes, and my note-taking ability. When I studied chemical engineering as an undergraduate, I drew distillation towers and reactors using different color pens, and solved all my partial differential equations using mechanical pencil, all the while underlining or boxing results with red ink. I took handwriting lessons, and I observed how other people wrote so that my own handwriting became neater and prettier. I always wanted to be the one having the best notes of my entire cohort. For me, they were, and continue to be, a source of pride. ![]() I can’t claim that I take excellent notes, but I like them, I use them, and I can at least say that, ever since I was in grade school, my classmates wanted to copy my notes.
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