How to Take Notes! Prepping for Finals Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- A video on encoding/recoding: • Memory: Encoding and R...
A similar notetaking technique, Cornell Notes: coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/co...
Cornell Notes works in reverse, which means you take organized notes on the right and go back and write out your "cues" later.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Topic Intro: Memory, Note Taking, Studying & Taking Tests
00:15 - Clarifying the Long Term vs Short Term Memory Misconception!
01:09 - What Working Memory Is
01:35 - Working Memory, Encoding & Recoding
02:15 - Why Note Taking Can Help
02:36 - How ADHD Can Impact Note Taking
03:09 - What Can Tend To Happen & Why It Often Doesn't Work
03:42 - What's A Brain To Do?
04:41 - Two Final Tips!
05:09 - Video Wrap-Up & Outro
You're the only person on youtube who actually makes me feel like its ok to have adhd, the others say its good for people who lived in the dinosaur age or something 😐
haha! I mean I guess that's true...but there are plenty of environments in the modern age in which ADHD brains thrive!
+How to ADHD can you do a video on that
Abdullah K yeah, me too
This is probably a very late reply on a four year old comment but I feel this so hard too 😂 Comments like "It was good back when humans had to run from tigers and lived till only 30-40 but not so good for modern days" really makes me wish I was born in the dinosaur era
@@HowtoADHD sorry to bother you, I just re-watch the video, you mention how to use to left column(lesson notes) and the "non left hand side column"(write the lesson in personal language) , but what about the right hand side column(in 3:55 you mention 3 columns)
Teacher : "so this molecule will lose an hydrogen atom to this other molecule."
Me in my head: "ok so that molecule will lose an hydrogen atom to... wait let's start over.
This molecule will lose a... wait, what did she say?!?"
Brain: "??????? "
My notes: "this molecule... and then something happens. (???)"
ADHD sucks.
This is so accurate
Too damn true.
yeah,,,with something like this i would doodle a small scheme with like 3 circles and arrows between them :)
ahahah frr
YEP, the amount of...s in my work lmao
Ok this is how I passed my psychology class over the summer:
I took typing classes in 6th grade and worked my way up to over 100 wpm (just to spite the mean old teacher) and I typed out literally everything my professor said ever. I was super into her lectures too, so I hyper-focused on everything she said. After class I never studied or reviewed notes or anything like that. I just... showed up for the tests and did 'em, and got a 92% overall grade!
Just... don't ask me about my other classes.
If only we could hyper focus on anything!!!
@david What about your other classes?
Lmao same with my soil sciences class
How does one type everything the teacher says. I can’t do that I’ve tried.
You are officially my favorite youtube channel omg. Surviving college one step at a time WOO
+Eleanor M. Jones Yayyyy makes it so worth it to hear things like that!! :D Next week: study tips!
You got this
Class begins try to pay attention, do it for 10 min, gets boring... day dream!!, get nack to the real world, pay attention for 5 min, gets boring and day dream again.... And thats my endles cycle until im just daydreaming :( btw i hate that i only knew that i was day dreaming when it actually ends :S So taking notes its quite dificult (very dificult) but I WILL TRY TO USE YOUR TIPS!! KEEP GOING ON!! YOU HELP SO MUCH PEOPLE AND ME!!
I used to doodle and draw pics of what the teacher was saying. It was crazy helpful. Also, if you can get away with snacking during class it helps too :)
I struggle with that too. It's probably the biggest challenge not daydreaming. Something that helps ease this a little is sitting front and center in the classroom away from the windows and think of yourself as having a good conversation with the teacher like you would a friend. You can make remarks about what they say in class in your head as if it were a two way conversation. (ex. okay i see what you're saying, that makes sense, how could that be, what else do you have to say about it, so basically what you mean is... etc) It also somehow makes me active instead of passive & I participate more too because when I'm thinking "I don't get it" during our "conversation" i know to raise my hand and ask a question. Never be afraid to ask questions, nobody was born knowing everything and different people need different explanations. Sounds a bit crazy but it works sometimes! And instead of thinking i'm never going to use this (because lets face it we have to pass this class either way) challenge yourself to find ways that it can apply to your life.
I actually had this problem a lot in classes too. So I bought a recorder and brought it to every class. I would record the entire lecture and try my best to pay attention. But if I ever drifted off and then randomly came back to reality, I would look at the time and make a time stamp in my notes so I knew what I needed to go back and listen to/take notes on later in the recording. This is 4 years later that I’m commenting but I just found this channel and just learned that I may have ADHD.
@@SupineReverie Brilliant! I wish I could've recorded in school! They should offer to record lectures and email to students with ADHD afterwards. It's not like I didn't want to learn but they sure treated me that way, with zero help. What can I say, it was the 90s...
@@janai5074 Oh goodness, I'm sorry you had to cope with that. :( Yeah, they really should offer that as another method of learning, I agree. I would just take my little voice recorder and do it without asking (which maybe I should have, but I was afraid they would think something weird about me - and I had no idea about the ADHD back then). They were big enough classrooms in college and so no one seemed to care.
GREAT TIPS! I struggled with copying notes from the board and listening to the teacher all at once! I could be writing down the notes while holding 3-4 words in my mind and completely forget that the teacher is talking about important stuff. it's like dozing off.
I typically record the lectures as I'm listening to them in case I zone out during parts of them (which I often do) while writing small bullet points with summarized information of what's being said (or at least the parts I was focusing on during the lecture) if I missed anything I'd go back to the recording and try to fill it in later. Usually I'd as for my friends notes as a guide if I missed anything important.
yes!!! i started doing this too and it saved me. when i realized i had zoned out, in my notebook i would write down what time the recording has listed so it would be easier for me to go back in and fill in the spots i missed.
I really wanted to do this, and I'm bummed I never got the chance. Things went to online during covid, and I wound up giving up on classes.
Literally on the verge of tears because this was me. In high school I just listened to the teacher and never took notes. The information was easy enough for me to retain, at least until the next test. The problem came with college. There was SO MUCH INFORMATION. I just couldn't keep up, I never learned to take notes, we had cumulative tests, I didn't know I had ADHD, I couldn't process ANYTHING, and I ended up suffering from depression. I so wish I had known what was going on in my brain so I could have gotten help :'(
Yeah thinking I have a bad memory is wrong. I have an amazing memory... For remembering silly things like the old 151 pokemon and what the name of a second cousin of a character in an obscure anime was.
yo, this is so amazing, i finally found people that have the same problem , like in real life, i have never met someone with adhd... omg hi guys hahaha lol
+brianth aguirre hello new brain!!! :D welcome to the tribe!
thankyou
01:09 working memory
01:35 encoding
01:49 recoding
02:14 note taking
03:46 column technique
04:44 familiar information
04:58 accommodations
Just stumbled across your channel today, so glad I did. I was diagnosed with ADD since i was seven (maybe earlier? I'm not sure actually) but no one really new how to deal with it. My parents just assumed i needed more time to do homework and study, but would get frustrated when i had done virtually nothing in the space of two hours. (Don't get me wrong, my parents are pretty great in most regards, they just didn't know how to deal with it and neither did I) By some miracle I finished high-school with reasonably average marks and am now in my first semester at uni. Was really starting to struggle with keeping up with all my subjects, I've heard of some of the study/focusing techniques you talk about but you explain it in such a way that really helps me out. Thank-you so much :) Sending you hugs from Australia. :D
This was literally my thought process one day in 5th grade when the teacher started talking about math, " okay you need to focus on math, focus on math, focus on math, math ,math....... does the Pokémon card game have to do with math?" I then proceeded to think about this until the teacher asked me a question and I said " yes pikachu I choose you"......yes I definitely have ADHD 😹
Can you maybe do a video on creating stuff? I have so many creative ideas but I feel like my ADHD is getting in the way and I can't organise my thoughts to get them out.
+tiskellytime ooo yeah good call!
yay!!
@@tiskellytime It's finally here!
Yeah. Stop making excuses, “I hAvE ADHd”.
Cornell note taking saved me in high school, as long as I remembered to go back to them. It's one step farther than the note style you explain, going through and taking your own notes from the book and then highlighting and adding notes in a second column. Finally, we would follow up with a brief summary at the bottom of the page. It's helped me focus on what the teacher was saying rather than panicking that I would miss something important.
I've been seeking treatment for my inattentive ADHD for the past month or so now, but 2:58 in this video is when I knew for sure how badly it was impacting my studies. That process is one I go through for every class, every lecture, every time. I've heard of so many "note-taking strategies," but they all only summarized how you organized the notes rather than how you actually took them and processed info while taking them. THANK YOU for this video!!!
Why didn't I have you while I was in school? MUCH LOVE FOR YOU AND ALL THAT YOU DOOOO!
You seriously just saved my college career. I have gone to school many different times, and always gave up because I felt like I couldn't retain anything. i just started school again and I tried the Cornell method of notetaking and it worked wonders. I am so grateful to this video and for you sharing this information.
You are helping a lot of people!
I love reading the comments sections on your videos. It's wonderful to read, it makes me feel a bit less alone in my struggles! Thank you so much everyone ♥
Deliberate practice. Find a pre test or use homework to figure out what you already know and don't know and able to guess. Then read or watch a video on what you missed. For example do you really need to read entire page to know biology is the study of life probably not.
Here's what I do.
1. Pencil and Paper only. If I can access TH-cam, reddit, and Facebook on it, I won't be taking notes.
2. Short hand. I listen to the professor, understand it, and try to copy it down fast before it fades from my working memory. Having a printout of the powerpoint, or an outline helps with this, because it allows you to focus on what the teacher is SAYING when you take notes, and filling in the stuff written down later.
3. I actually avoid looking at the material before hand at all costs. Why? Well one of the reasons I've been able to do fairly well with lectures is that I find them absolutely fascinating. If am excited to learn something new, reading ahead is like reading a plot summary to the next Star Wars movie, it ruins the fun. If I can't get interested, I'll check out and won't pay attention.
Sincerely, Brain in professional school who should be studying.
I can not contain my excitement every time I see something new showing up from you. Your videos are so super helpful!
I take notes and then i type them up and organize them afterwards so it makes the most sense to me. It takes way too long but its really helpful and kind of fun for me when i can focus long enough to do it. Got that tip from my mother. ❤
I use the Livescribe smartpen for note taking: it records the audio and pairs it to your written notes, which syncs with the app. Whenever the lecture gets too fast, or I miss something I do not stress out. I just leave some room in my notes to fix it later and I move on with the teacher. The pen is little pricy and needs a special paper to work, but for me it worth the investment.
I love how I can actually finish watching these videos all the way though.
2:59 gave me a mini panic attack :D
Live recording and uploading of lectures has been heaven sent for me! I am able to be thorough in my note-taking, and effectively encode information in this way than I ever could sitting in a class room.
I'm really enjoying your videos. Since being diagnosed, everything makes more sense of the way my life has been for the last 47 years. 🤦♂️ I can never change, but learning better strategies is key. Thank you.
Oh my goodness, I LOVE your videos! I only found your channel a few days ago and it has already helped me so much in so many ways. So thanks! Plus your sense of humour is just hilarious haha
+Alice Janáčková Aww, thank you!! :D
Online college + taking notes on my iPad has been a lifesaver for me! I can pause the lecture, imbed screenshots into my notes, and rewind as much as I need. It’s great.
I’ve never been diagnosed but I relate to these videos so much thank you, and I get so excited when I’m about to watch these 💪🏾🤗🤗
YOU'RE SO HELPFUL AND IM SO GLAD YOU AND YOU'RE TH-cam CHANNEL EXIST :)
great idea thank you! looks really useful! I'm so glad it's not just me who finds what you said at the start of the video to occur! I always get lower than expected in exams as I never know to write or listen!
The questions when it comes to note-taking during class are on point!
This channel is such a life saver!
This was so helpful! That class scenario you were describing was exactly what I experienced every day in high school for 5 years. One of the tools I used was to record what the teacher was saying (with their permission) on my phone/tablet so that i could focus on what they were saying and I would have the exact information on demand for when I took notes.
omg thank u
absolutely loving every video you post!
This is one of the hardest things to explain to people. Because they are like 'You can remember every second of every movie we ever saw together, when we did and what we ate that night. But you can't remember to put out the trash or where the keys are?'
THIS REMINDS ME OF CORNELL NOTES. And after typing that, i see you mentioned them in the description. My old AVID (Advancement VIa Individual Determination) teacher taught me how to use them, and they have become a life saver in high school and in college!
I only was diagnosed in late 2015 with ADHD.
Watching this video made me realize that I was doing exactly those tricks you mentioned while not knowing why it was so hard for me to take notes.
I love your videos and I will be coming back to them often while I am helping my 6 yr old boy with ADD deal with school. Cheers!
I often flip between copying down everything and just giving up and trying to listen to a lecture and remember what I can and hope I will be able to recall it later depending on how I feel that day haha thank you so much for these videos I have literally watched all of them. I will use this note taking method in the future!
Hey there - I stumbled across your videos and its very help full as have been diagnosed with Dyslexia and have ADHD, Just to say, I have been given a "Livescribe" pen by my Uni and i would highly recommend this as you have the ability to record the whole lessons and whats even better is that when you write specific key notes such as "dates or whatever" you can plan the recording at that specific time by just click on your note! - Im not trying to sell you this or anything but i found this very usefull and just want to give my fellow ADHD community a hand!
What you said about working memory totally made sense!!! Thanks for the tips on taking notes, this is something I really struggle with and then I get behind and then give up lol
Thank you so much for this series!
yay, new video! this is an amazing note system, thanks so much for sharing it. I just got out of night class and was thinking about how hard it is to write down notes while still paying attention to the lecture. by the time I finish writing something down, the professor's on a completely new topic lol.
using these trigger words will really help me to be more present and mindful of what the professor's talking about.
meow 🐈
I love how most of the people with ADHD make the same jokes xD so do I ^^
I have found Smart Pens to be super helpful! It records the lecture while you take notes on special paper and, once you stop the recording, you just touch the pen tip to any price of writing on the page and it jumps right to that part of the recording! I would draw a small box in the margin any time I realized I had spaced out during the lecture and then touch that box and back up a bit to get what I missed (leaving a few lines in the notes to fill in later) it also helped my focus on more of the lecture because I could speed up the recording so that my monotone professor wouldn't get in the way of the information! It can be expensive but college university disability offices sometimes rent them out for free! It helped me so much!!! And so does this channel!!
This is so helpful. I've been struggling trying to figure out a good method to help my 6th grader who is totally clueless at taking notes and she's really not getting good instruction on it unless I seek out the information myself or bug her teachers about it. lol! The struggle is real!! Thank you for giving ADHD a positive voice in the world.
2:36 I'm sooo lucky my 7th grade social studies teacher taught us how to take notes in a variety of ways, thanks Mrs. McMahon!
Not I high school or college but this is still amazing!!! Thank you so so much, this will be great, one of my teachers is one of those people who can talk for an hour straight...so if I know what to look for in his lectures it will make his class 10x easier! Thanks again, you are the ADHD internet angel! 😋
Thanks for making this video. I think it'll really help all of us students. Regardless of whether we have ADHD or not. : )
I always try to make a summary text paper of everything that'll be in the test. Then I print it out and mark the most important things. Then I audio record it into my phone and listen to it on loop while playing computer games and it really help me a lot since I do t really listen to it but it somehow helps me to get all As and Bs
LET THERE BE CATS!!!!!
Raygen Croes 😸😸😸😸😸
Let's say I actually manage to come up with something to write down for notes. I'll get 3 words down and the forget what I'm writing! Or if I mange to remember what to write I end up writing way to much stuff that isn't important. Like the fact that it was a cloudy day when they made the video I was taking notes on. Then I look at the kids notes sitting next to mr and I think "HOW DID YOU DO THAT????!!!!?!?!?"
Try writing 3 words or less then. "Columbus America 1492" "Germany Poland 1939" "Lincoln abolished slavery" (history was the most note-heavy and my worst subject, haha)
THANK YOU :D !! I REALLY REALLY NEEDED THIS
I love ur videos. Thanks so much! Now I can understand the things I knew but couldn't explain.
This is spot on.... thank you
could you pretty please do a video on organizing our folders, binders etc. or basically trying to keep our work organised for school?! love you're videos btw keep it up
When your doodling and the teacher yells at you for doing it, but you know exactly what they said
I looove your channel. Helped me alot lately. So a big thank you. 😄😄😄😄
How i wish I had your tips when I went to school. Ah well still helpful now. :)
i´ve just headed back to school in the age of 30, and after consulting my doctor about blood samples to check Testosterone and all that after seeing that i have difficulty remembering stuff i came across your videos, also took the test and got my girlfriend to watch a "symptoms on ADHD" i think this actually might be the reason why i can sit and program code for hours, instant feedback when the code works, and focusing on that like when i was younger with video games , while unable to do other things for more than 5 minutes.
not sure if you stopped this channel, but thanks a lot for the videos you have posted already.
time to consult my doctor with some tests i guess, (ps scored 87%) on one of your other tests you linked, and my girlfriend laughed when it was said something about overthinking things that can happen.. i mean i bring a hatchet, lights and matches, extra clothes going on a short 2 hour trip in the woods (with trails....)
Anyways thanks for the videos, helped me a lot.
/BR Andreas (Norway)
This is another helpful video. Keep up the great work "How to ADHD"!
Did anyone else get a little lost during the bit about the 3 fold note taking because they were trying to remember what she was saying while reading the words on the screen..... lol story of my life. Thank you for creating this channel though! I cried watching your Ted talk and then found your TH-cam page.
Thank you for educating us. The whole family is learning about our newly diagnosed ADHD. Ages: 54, 51, 23 and 19
Wish i'd watched this video when i was in college!! Now watching this to prepare for work meetings. Great stuff!!
Asynchronous classes have been such a lifesaver! Having recorded lectures i can pause to take notes has been amazing, and i can put the lecture at 1.5x speed so i don't get bored. Wish i could do that IRL ;-;
Thanks for this. I'm going to give your note taking technique a go in my next lecture. :)
+Niki Awesome, let me know how you like it!!
I always suspected my note taking failure had something to do with adhd so thanks for filling in the why :) my solution has been a live scribe pen that records while you write. Makes note taking much less stressful and I just add a little symbol if I've zoned out for a bit and know I need to listen to that part again.
Your channel is super helpful! Thank you for these videos :)
Would you consider a video for organizing a schedule for online classes / work from home? I feel so overwhelmed going back to school online lol
I had to watch some sections twice ... The cats were just so ADORABLE!
I just finished my Master of Social Work last year, and I had always struggled with taking notes. Every time I tried to take notes I would completely forget what was being taught. I would always ask for someone else's notes and offer to study with them. I found if I could engage with the material in a verbal way, I would have a better ability to remember it. But I had to be careful that I didn't monopolize the class time either, so it was a struggle. I had no idea my issues were related to ADHD, but it explains so much.
thank you needed this just like for regular class.
I came for the video, and it'a very interesting. Will have to watch again to make shure how to make it pratical for me but... WHAT EYES... they're mesmerizing!
Thank you so much for your videos. You understand!
+Christine Lord :D
Your my favorite I finally feel understood
GREAT NOTE TAKING ADVICE:
Before class get out your phone and record audio of the entire lecture. Then take the notes down as fast as you can, you dont have to understand. Just write! After school you can go over the notes you took while listening to the recording! Boom! Notes!
So thankful my teacher writes down all the notes we need to put down.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDWARD! :D:D
Something I did for taking notes was to record the classes. I listened and payed as attention as I could to the class and recorded it at the same time (this required that I pay attention cause there were parts that might escape the recording). When I got home, I transcribed the recording to my notebook, and were able to revise what I learned and understand things I didn't catch at the moment. The issue was when I let the recordings accumulate, and then I was not so interested in having to transcribe a whole semester worth of notes in a week, or if a class was too boring/not interesting enough for me, cause I couldn't be bothered to study it. This however helped me out through my undergrad and masters and I still remember what was said during the classes I did this for, so maybe it could be helpful for someone out there.
TL:DR Visual Notetaking/Sketchnoting is fantastic for ADHD brains that are Visual and/or Kinetic learners. Check it out.
I didn't realise that notes actually help me learn until I discovered visual notetaking, - this was six months ago, could have used this technique 10+ years ago for high school... *sigh*). My brain really responds to having information encoded in a visual way. And when I go to review it, I actually remember stuff. I'm so happy I've finally found something that works.
Visual/Kinetic Learners take note! I am both of these things and find that having something to look at whilst listening to lectures, is great for the visual part of my brain, whilst the movement of drawing and writing helps the kinetic part. I've always found it easier to remember things when walking around, turns out having a purposeful thing to do with my hands is just as helpful.
OMG this is so helpful, I can use these tips at work too :) x
This video is my saviour
I'm gonna see if I can bring in a tape recorder to class someday because it would work better. In the meantime though this tactic will really help me in my classes, thank you!
Listening to this reminded me of an app I found. It's called Recorder. You set your phone on tour desk, hit the record button in the app, and it will not only record but transcribe everything they say with pretty good accuracy. I've been using it for my classes this semester and it's been doing wonders for me. If I get distracted in lecture, I can now just go back through everything that was transcribed. I can also listen to it and follow along with the slides if I need to later on.
This just explained my whole life
I'm literally using this at uni now, for my BSc in Psychology. the plan is to have a table divided up into 2 columns; left is narrower and is for the heading of the topic, the main name person in a study with the year and the right column is next to it is the theory and what's going on.
Example: Left column: Drunk Behaviour Right coloumn:
Moore et al, 2090: Alcohol Inhibition: blah blah blah
This helps me to keep everything neat and concise while also able to flesh out my lecture notes with other bits.
YOU ARE AMAZING
Thank you. I hope this will be helpful for all of us :)
+Metmeth K hope so! Let me know!
Thank you for this
When I was in college I would record the lecture on tape (it was awhile ago) and spend the time during class listening and absorbing what information I could. Then that night I would listen to the tape and take notes when I could pause and rewind in case I missed something. Or even skip over dead sections where I knew there was no useful information. Today you could easily do that on your phone. You could even take pics of any visual aids you think might be helpful later. Though it's usually polite to ask first.
Not at school, but I've started using the voice recorder of my phone in staff training events in addition to taking notes.
Something educators can do that is exceptionally helpful? Put an outline of the material up before the lecture. This highlights the main/important points, provides structure, and gives context for material than can be expanded during the class or lecture portion. This was really helpful in college, but would apply at any level, I think.
If your school or university records lectures or lessons it is useful to note down the time you zoned out and lost track of what's happening. If it's not an option, ask your teachers if you could record the classes on a dictaphone to review later. It makes such a difference. There is also some pretty advanced software to help you do that but it's pretty expensive, so it's worth seeing if you're eligible for any kind of disabled/learning difficulty grants
I totally doodled and made a point of drawing out my notes. It was a very helpful system. I was very determined to overcome my ADHD symptoms.....I didn't take meds and it was pretty tough. I took twice as long to do homework, but I was still a kid people went to to get there questions answered about things in class (not history though). It's hard being a smart girl with ADHD because you have to work extra hard. I can only imagine how much better I would have done if I had meds and these videos to go to!!! (I didn't even know I officially had ADHD till after college)
Lol! My ADD kicked in when she said, "let there be cats ".😸 I kept rewinding the video to see the cats. love these entertaining and helpful videos!
Most of my courses are some variation of "Death By Powerpoint". A pretty common accommodation is requesting a copy of the ppt. If a professor is not willing to share, discretely snap pictures of the slides with your phone, paste them into a word doc after class, and make your notes under each picture. This also works for stuff on the blackboard/whiteboard. This process works well, at least for me. Just remember to turn your sound off and be discrete so you do not call attention to yourself.
I find it interesting how I never knew that me not being able to take notes during lectures because it seemed so difficult and me entirely giving up on taking notes was actually because of ADHD
A really good accommodation I was able to get was to have my phone out with a captions software on it. If I miss something the professor said, I just read it off of my phone and copy it down.
I record lectures and take notes 📝. I listen to the recording several times. I also google related topics to find another way to process the same information.