The autumn return to school is a good time to remind students and parents about learning strategies. Lectures still dominate teaching approaches. In spite of such teaching reforms as "hands-on" ...

In ?1999, the National Research Council published a major study: How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. The results confirmed what most forward-looking educators already understood: In ...

If there is one essential skill that students should master in schools and universities, it is the art of taking good notes. Notes that are not copied and pasted from professors' slides, not even the ...

Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...

Note-taking is a personal experience. Ergo, the feature-set one needs to look for in a notes app is largely dependent on their preferences and requirements. Although the built-in notes app on Mac, ...

The primary purpose of note taking is to encourage active learning and to prepare study materials for exams. Developing note taking skills should help you organize information into an understandable ...