The Surprising Truth About Note-taking During Lectures | Highlights and Annotations by Gistr.

Note-taking during lectures is less effective than often believed. Research shows that while note-taking aids encoding and storage, the divided attention required hinders learning. Free recall, recreating lecture content from memory afterward, proves superior for long-term retention. Verbatim note-taking is particularly ineffective. Pre-lecture preparation and post-lecture free recall, supplemented by available resources, optimize learning. two different ways. the first way is called encoding. physically writing down what you heard is supposed to help you remember what it is you heard. evidence for the effectiveness of encoding is a bit mixed, but it probably does help you remember at least a little bit, just not as much as alternative methods.NaN:NaNChapterDoes reviewing notes later help us remember?01:44the second way that taking notes during lectures is supposed to help you learn is by reviewing your notes later. so that's what's called storage. you have a kind of source that you can go back to, to reread again. the same kind of story here: rereading your notes is better than doing nothing, but it's probably not as good as verbatim notes that means you have to write a ton and you're essentially transcribing while the person is talking. so you have to be writing extremely fast for that to even get down the notes -you've got to be missing something.04:09so it's bad from the attention point of view. what about encoding? encoding is about interpreting and understanding and synthesizing what's being said so if you're writing verbatim notes you're not doing that. so it doesn't really help you there. and finally storage is kind of the same deal. prepare for the lecture, take just minimal notes during the lecture, and then do free recall after the lecture..07:42taking notes during lectures might have made sense in a different era if the only source of information is coming from that teacher in that one moment and you have no other way of accessi