Chico Escuela posted:PitchingFan posted:hokieone posted:A hand-held recorder, digital or tape (I still use cassettes). Recording a lecture (step one) and listening to it a second time (step 2) to fill in your notes is a great study method. I did this in college and law school. Step 3 was to make an outline from the notes and by then, the material is mastered. I rarely had to study for exams because after making the outline, a little review brought it all back. Just a thought, might not be for everyone.
I still have one but my son laughed at me and said "Dad, that's what they make i-phone voice recorder for." We are getting old.
Students really should not record a professor’s lectures without asking for permission. Given today’s technology, it is nearly impossible to enforce a recording ban (everyone has a phone that can serve as a digital recorder), but this is a matter of both courtesy and, at some institutions, school policy. Lectures are a professor’s intellectual property—they often reflect years of work. I also know profs who have had their lectures digitally edited so as to make them appear to say things they did not. For someone teaching a potentially controversial subject (a wide ranging list these days), this can cause career problems.
Here are two of the first links that popped up on Google about this subject:
This reminds me of the scene in Real Genius (cult classic glorifying nerds like me) where the class room was filled with tape recorders (yikes dating myself) and the lecture was being played on a tape reel (yikes did it again)