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ERRR #079. Daniel Willingham on How to Study

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How to Reorganize Your Notes to Improve Your Learning

The major factor that either helps or hinders note-taking is that devices that are distracting for students so as a broad rule that's probably the best advice. If you're an individual student in a class where the lecturer is giving you the choice of how to make take your notes it's valuable to think about yourself as a learner like are you likely to look at your notes again if you're not maybe focused on the generative effects but if you are, just do longhand anyway because that's going to keep you safe from your distraction. A very mechanistic kind of answer which is great and gives people some good some good tips to go away can be hard to identify when they

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