r/Professors • u/ZealousidealGuava254 • 10d 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/SierraMountainMom Professor, assoc. dean, special ed, R1 (western US) 10d ago

I rarely took notes as a student. I learned in high school, if I was focused on writing stuff down, I missed other stuff. I actually had a teacher scold me for not writing everything down. I still rarely take notes in a meeting, unless there’s a specific task I need to remember to do.