The Cornell Note Taking System
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The Cornell Note Taking System
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#2I attended undergrad there 25 years ago. didn't know this system existed!
I thought this thread was going to be about lecture notes that you used to be able to buy in case your own notes suck or you missed a bunch of lectures. Not sure if they still sell them though. (there was a specific name... if anyone here still remembers)
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#3I attended undergrad there 25 years ago. didn't know this system existed! I thought this thread was going to be about lecture notes that you used to be able to buy in case your own notes suck or you missed a bunch of lectures. Not sure if they still sell them though. (there was a specific name... if anyone here still remembers)
The referenced publication is from 2010. I went there too, more like 35 years ago. Maybe I would have done better if this sort of thing had been available back then.
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#4I wish this had been taught week 1 of college when I went in the mid 90s. All college's should have a mandatory module on note taking, learning techniques and general planning and productivity.
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#5I attended undergrad there 25 years ago. didn't know this system existed! I thought this thread was going to be about lecture notes that you used to be able to buy in case your own notes suck or you missed a bunch of lectures. Not sure if they still sell them though. (there was a specific name... if anyone here still remembers)
Same. I bought the "takenotes" which were pretty good. Also I met my wife after asking to borrow her notes for a class. So I thoroughly approve of the Cornell Not Taking Notes system!
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#6I attended undergrad there 25 years ago. didn't know this system existed! I thought this thread was going to be about lecture notes that you used to be able to buy in case your own notes suck or you missed a bunch of lectures. Not sure if they still sell them though. (there was a specific name... if anyone here still remembers)
The referenced publication is from 2010. I went there too, more like 35 years ago. Maybe I would have done better if this sort of thing had been available back then.
Note that it's the 10th edition. I'm pretty sure the technique has been around since the 1950s. I certainly remember it from the 90s.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The referenced publication is from 2010. I went there too, more like 35 years ago. Maybe I would have done better if this sort of thing had been available back then.
Note that it's the 10th edition. I'm pretty sure the technique has been around since the 1950s. I certainly remember it from the 90s.
If that's the case it couldn't have been very well publicized, since I graduated from Cornell in 91 and never heard of it.
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#8I wish this had been taught week 1 of college when I went in the mid 90s. All college's should have a mandatory module on note taking, learning techniques and general planning and productivity.
Sounds like a force multiplier for other courses
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#9Goodness gracious.
There is an entire generation of school children (at the very least in my locality) who were forced to use an incredibly poor implementation of this method by teachers who barely understood the intent themselves.
On which we were punished for not doing correctly.
The biggest gripe I had about this method was that the lessons in middle school and high school never had enough information density to make this meaningful in any way.
Anyways, I can’t take notes like this anymore. Being punished an entire letter grade for not having enough questions on my notes when I was aceing every single test made me never want to take notes like this ever again.
Edit: I’m sure this system works for some people but it definitely did not click with the way my brain retains information but being forced to try to learn in a manner that my brain did not want to learn has left me with a burning desire to never do it again.
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#10I attended undergrad there 25 years ago. didn't know this system existed! I thought this thread was going to be about lecture notes that you used to be able to buy in case your own notes suck or you missed a bunch of lectures. Not sure if they still sell them though. (there was a specific name... if anyone here still remembers)
The referenced publication is from 2010. I went there too, more like 35 years ago. Maybe I would have done better if this sort of thing had been available back then.
This lines up with roughly when this system suddenly took stranglehold at my local school district.