Technology in Note Taking and Assessment

Question: Discuss about the Technology in Note Taking and Assessment. Answer: Introduction: Various studies on various ways of lecture note taking are conducted to evaluate different ways of lecture note taking. Different literatures of various authors discussed about new ideas of lecture taking in classroom. This paper will critically evaluate the processes of taking note. Lecture not helps in effective studies that are the first step of learning. The students can use notebooks, spiral books, laptop or android app to take the lecture notes. However, use of laptop or android app in classroom is very controversial. Some common android apps are Microsoft OneNote, Google Keep, Apple Note and Evernote. This paper will review articles and journals of different authors on the lecture note taking. Badger, White, Sutherland and Haggis (2001) stated in their article that taking lecture note is a main component of academic study. This article reviewed both lecture discourse structure and native or non native English speaker note taking investigation. However, it is necessary to know the perception and understanding of the students to take note in classroom in the University. Ruby and Ruby Jr (2013) in their paper chose 18 students to investigate the conceptualisations of students. 6 students from undergraduate level of first year, 6 access students and 6 international first year students are selected for interview procedure of lecture note taking. However, Chen (2013) argued that the students must know the purpose of lecture note taking and the material of the content of the lecture. Moreover, the students need to know the after effects of lecture note taking and remind the past experience of not taking. As students come from various academic backgrounds, they have different know ledge to study in the Universities. The article focuses on the different type of lecture note giving and different styles of understanding of the students to take the notes. According to Kiewra (2016), the culture of the lecture should be also noticed. The body language of the lecturer also plays a strong role in understanding of the students and type of the lectures in the classroom. On the other hand, Kuznekoff and Titsworth (2013) stated argument in the article Note perfect: an investigation of how students view taking notes in lectures that the focus of the research strand is the note taking in the lecture room to replicate the key points of academic lectures. However, there is a difference between note taking of native and non native English speakers. Many of the research are done on the basis of simplistic process and those views on the place of lecture note taking. Peverly et al., (2007) said that lecture note taking is very important to test the performance of the students that is known as cognitive process of lecture note taking. The main purpose of the study is to investigate the three methods of hypothesis. This helps to identify the quality of the taken note. The three methods are transcription fluency, ability to find the key ideas and memory of verbal working. Peverly et al., (2007) stated that another purpose of the study is to replicate finding of past research studies towards the notes and memory of verbal working. This is related with the performance of the students. Bui and Myerson (2014) argued that transcription fluency can predict the note quality that is very significant to test the performance. Expertises have contemporary views on the cognitive processing of learning. However, different students have different working memory capacity that lead to variation in effective process execution in the working memory. This is also diff erent from skill outcomes. Great capacity of working memory enables great efficiency to monitor the order information (Badger, White, Sutherland Haggis, 2001). For example, if the basic skill or word recognition is automatic, the difference of individual are correlated highly with the language ability. Most of the professors provide important information during the lecture in classes. In the past decades, the students noted down the information in note books, which is practised in present days also. However, some research papers suggest changing, the style of taking notes to develop the learning system. These new styles can have negative impact on the learning of the students. They can be distracted and their performance may decrease. Before applying new technologies in education system, the technologies should be reviewed properly to develop the knowledge of the students. Wei, Wang and Fass (2014) showed in their article that the usage of android app in taking lecture note can help students. The focus of the research study is to compare the handwritten note taking and computer mediated note taking. However, the usage of android apps has adverse effects on the learning process of students. However, it is easier and time saving way to collect the notes. Another beneficial role of electronic devices is that the students can record the lecture note of the lecturer if they are not able to note down the lectures. Kuznekoff and Titsworth (2013) suggested some electronic device name and android apps like affordable laptops, mobile phones, tablets, Google Keep, Apple Notes, EverNote and Microsoft OneNote. The wireless devices can be handled easily. These devices are very useful mainly for those who are multi taskers students. However, the negative point of using these devices is that those devices can distract the students as well as can save the time (Kuzneko ff Titsworth, 2013). The article study showed that the students who use laptops in class to take note and do not use internet browsing or social networking sites, achieved strong learning outcome than those students who misuse the laptop during lecture note. Sincere students are less attracted towards the online chatting in the lecture room and get benefits of using electronic devices. According to Mueller Oppenheimer (2014), students who use laptops sincerely are gainer than the students who use notebook and pen to note down the lecture notes. The research suggests that switched tasks and interruption reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of the learning process and note taking also. Switching to typing on chat boxes from note taking shows psychomotor delay of the student who uses the electronic devices in multitasking. Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) reviewed the advantages of using laptop rather than pen or note book. However, the use of electronic devices like computer in classroom is very controversial. This article focuses on the multitasking capacity of students on laptop. Students need not to provide much effort to take notes of the lecturers in classroom. Chen (2013) argued that using of laptop to take lecture notes may impair the learning habits of the students. Many professors do not allow the use of laptops in classroom as it can distract the students learning outcome and the discussion in the classroom. Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) selected some students to conduct the research and interviewed then to know their perspectives. Many of the students also agree with their professors that the multitasking capacity of laptop distracts them very much and breaks their concentration in classroom. On the other hand, many students have the belief that laptops are beneficial in their learning proce dure. The focus of the correlation studies are the capacity of laptops in distracting the students to multitask during the lecture in classroom. However, the study showed that Internet browsing during the lecture impairs the performance o the students, therefore the learning outcome also decreases. According to Peverly et al. (2007), the findings of the research are very beneficial and important. The misuse of laptop and distraction depends on the students also. The use of laptop may affect the quality of lecture note taking but it is time saver also. De Brito (2015) suggested that there are two ways to avoid the misuse of laptops in classrooms during lectures. The first one is encoding and the other one is external storage. The encoding process helps to improve the learning outcome of the students. The external storage method helps to review the materials of notes more efficiently and effectively. Conclusion On the basis of above discussion, it can be concluded that lecture note is very important thing in learning process. To achieve the knowledge of lecture note taking, it is necessary to conduct research. The students can use new technologies to take notes in classroom but they should remind the negative impact of those devices. The new technologies involve various devices like mobile phone, laptop and tablets. The technologies can distract the learning of students. However, professors do not prefer to use the technologies as the technology distracts them also. Very much use of these technologies affects the health and learning of the students. The effect of new technologies may be various like it can affect the health of students and the knowledge also. Students can take the notes of their notebook but in this process they can miss some important points. 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