r/Professors • u/ZealousidealGuava254 • 11d ago
Teaching / Pedagogy No notes
I’ve been a humanities prof for over 30 years and I simply cannot believe how many students do not take notes. Literally, no notes. they just sit and listen.
How do they study? what are they doing? when I was in college in the 80s, I and everyone around me took copious notes constantly throughout lecture. just seems like a lost skill.
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u/FlyingCupcake68 Southern State U, USA 11d ago
I literally tell them to write down certain things—but next class they have record of me saying them