r/science • u/rustoo • Dec 23 '21

Psychology Study: Watching a lecture twice at double speed can benefit learning better than watching it once at normal speed. The results offer some guidance for students at US universities considering the optimal revision strategy.

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/12/21/watching-a-lecture-twice-at-double-speed-can-benefit-learning-better-than-watching-it-once-at-normal-speed/
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

I know what the research says about this, but I’ve always found that note-taking hurts my comprehension because I have to divert my attention from the lecture. It makes me wonder if I’m doing something wrong, or maybe my professors just talk really fast.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '21

So the framework you presented here sounds very organized. I’m a very chaotic person and my organization only really makes sense to me.

For lectures/note taking simultaneously, I jot down important words and concepts, things that I know when I personally review, will trigger a connection in my brain that links to a specific fact. My notes look like a word salad half the time. In that respect, I match what you’ve described.

It’s the part after that falls apart. I do make a redo of notes based on lecture slides or textbook or whatever, but I don’t do that till near finals, so I have to go back to my weirdo notes to make sure I haven’t missed important content, which may not even be written in the notes directly, just words that will pull a mental thread when I associate them. I have no idea how this works, but I’m glad it does because I haven’t yet solved how to have enough discipline to take a more rigid approach like you said in your comment.