BUILD LISTENING & NOTE TAKING SKILLS ACCURATELY LISTENING TO A...

8. Build Listening & Note taking Skills

Accurately listening to a lecture and deciding what is important are two skills that must be mastered

before you worry about how to write the information in your notes. Again, being an active rather

than a passive participant is the key to your success.

Taking good notes demands that you :

a.

prepare for class,

b.

become an active listener,an

c.

distinguish major from minor points,

d.

use a note-taking system,

e.

participate in class, and

f.

review often.

True education is not about cramming material into your brain. True education is the process of

expanding your capabilities, of bringing yourself into the world.

Remember, Professors can merely set the stage for you to create learning through your own

action.

Why Cramming does not work?

There is a biological reason for this. The problem is that cramming information places it into our

brains in short term storage. This is where you put everyday information that is not really worth

remembering. In order to learn we have to transfer information into long term memory. Once there,

you can retrieve it far easier over a longer period of time.

Here's an overview the differences in next section.