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E5 Skye Helfant: Why Most Students Take Terrible Notes

Aidan's Infinite Play

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The Encoding Process Is Making Your Memory Better

There are three different steps to learning. The first is encoding, the second is storing and the third is recall. I see students in a Google Drive document taking their notes for lecture by verbatimally writing down what the professor says. And it baffles me, because the encoding process of doing something like that, it's horrible. Like you don't connect the knowledge to anything that you're already learning. But if you're just basically becoming a human typewriter, welcome to college, no human typewriting school.

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