Tech for Students
Where does education go when students spend more time taking notes on laptop than they do taking them in a notebook? We go digital of course. I had an Anatomy professor that recorded every lecture and test review and made it available to anyone that had an mp3 player so that they could review the material whether they wanted another listen or if they had missed the class. While the course was very difficult and memory taxing those audio reviews were the only thing that got many of us through it. Now I’m hearing that universities are going a step further and giving students an iPod loaded with the course lectures at the beginning of the year so that they can get up to speed and succeed easier.
So what happens when taking notes out of a text book is no longer and instead the students copy and paste the pertinent information that they need to study out of their rented digital textbook on the tablet pc or laptop? Our students of the future have information on tap from reliable sources on the internet and teachers are starting to realize that.
