I understand the intent of this article. Instead of just 'capturing' the content of a lecture or presentation by taking notes, it is better to be actively engaged in learning. "Capture has become automatic, so schools need to stop spending human brainpower on it. Give students the slides. Give them the transcript. Give them the notes. Then use learning time for judgment, synthesis, and creation." But just as the value of note-taking isn't in the tools, it isn't in the activity or the content either. It's in the intention. We are always going to have information presented to us, whether by humans or by computers. How do we make sense of that information? Me, when I take note, what I'm doing is trying to organize it into a form I can understand. It doesn't matter if I ever refer to it again, what I have done is to convert what was a passive listening activity into an active creative activity.
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