Writing Notes!

The Digitalisation of the classroom

Today most of the schools have computer-aided teaching aids and I personally is a big fan of these methods of teaching, but still, somewhere there are issues in the learning outcomes. This bothered me and I researched on the reasons. 

I will quote a personal experience. Teaching the chapter sound, it was almost impossible to explain the meaning of pitch, quality, loudness, and timber etc. The best would have been an alive experience. But the next best is the reproduction of the qualities and their graphical representation using computerised teaching aids.  All this sounds perfect! 

But, there is a glitch?

The students did not recollect or analyse and synthesis the learnings.

So looking for the reasons I stumbled upon research done by Prof Pauk Walter, Cornell and many more. Here I am giving the simple outline of a bit of his work.

Let's see what happens when one writes notes in a notebook?

Writing the notes with the hands involves "mental lifting".

Let's see what happens when one writes the notes on a laptop?

However, it is faster to write the notes on the laptop. Typing on the laptop almost matches up with the speed with which a teacher would speak. This is one of the great advantages of the typing. 

Now let's see how the brain sees the typing on the laptop. One uses a different type of the cognitive skills. 

To put it simply it is more clerical.

My take on this situation: 
I will personally recomend a combinaation of the the digital classroom teaching along with the classical method of taking the notes.

( Source of information)https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/