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(60,334 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)Really?
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Could be that is what the school offers.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Thanks.
MiddleFingerMom
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... like Coke or Pepsi at the highschool level.
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)everybody else is messing around on the internet. he's taking notes!
redqueen
(115,103 posts)fourth and fifth rows, center right.
I wouldn't want to lug a laptop around to class. Do not see the appeal at all. Also, writing it out helps with remembering it, so...
I was one of the first in my school to do so. The school was one of the fairly early adopters of the idea of supplying all students with a laptop. And I drug my laptop to most classes.
I remember as well what I type as what I write. Plus its legible for later. And I type faster than I print or talk.
The only time it caused issues was when a teacher wanted to diagram. And even then, it wasn't usually a big deal. Now, with the faster computers that are out and a better knowledge of how to integrate things, even that would be a relatively simple matter.
Saving Hawaii
(441 posts)If you haven't gotten used to taking notes via laptop, you're really missing out. Taking notes on pen and paper requires a lot of shorthand and a lot of scratching your head later trying to figure out what you were writing about. On a laptop you can pretty much write an essay that follows the lecture. It's actually a fantastic way to take notes and I'm really missing it in my current class where the instructor refuses to allow laptops in the classroom. I rarely reviewed my notes when taking them via laptop. Simply paraphrasing the instructor in full sentences and that sort of thing offered great memory retention.
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)The guy with the notepad will sweep the floors.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)and, GASP, a word processor, and I am far from sweeping floors.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)Those days were hell. It was way harder to plagarize a term paper those days. (Joking! I never cheated a day of college. I've got the crap GPA to prove it.)
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Yes, I am a dork! Used to read them cover to cover.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)My mother made the mistake of telling me I could set my own bedtime if I read the Encyclopedia Britannica cover-to-cover...I don't think it occurred to her that I could or would as an 8 year old.
I read Grolier too. I must have been the smartest 8 year old in history...palest and dorkiest too.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I used to know the name and location of every country. Not so sure I can name them all now because Europe had to go and ruin everything!
Bake
(21,977 posts)And also the dictionary. I love words. I guess that's why I became a lawyer--we get paid by the word!
Bake
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)I skipped the word processor era altogether. Didn't know it was going on.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)LOL
kentauros
(29,414 posts)I don't own a laptop (don't want one, either) so I bought one of these a few years back for my writing portability:
People actually comment positively on it (unlike the comments on that blog linked to the image.) I can only think of one person that was initially intrigued, and then turned away as I explained what it was. It was no longer "new" tech, so he wasn't interested
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)It's very sort of non-conformist.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Believe it not, they are still in use.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Wang 1200 Word Processor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories#The_Wang_1200
The labor and cost savings of this device were immediate, and remarkable: pages of text no longer had to be retyped to correct simple errors, and projects could be worked on, stored, and then retrieved for use later on. The rudimentary Wang 1200 machine was the precursor of the Wang Office Information System (OIS), which revolutionized the way typing projects were performed in the American workplace.
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)but it was at a time when I wasn't the only one in the room without a laptop. In fact, nobody took notes on a laptop back then. Nowadays, if you're a the only guy with a pen and pad either the machine's in the repair shop or you're not with the program.
(Also, I was making a lighthearted response to a lounge thread. No offense intended. )
zanana1
(6,112 posts)Shorthand!
baldguy
(36,649 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)There are a few exceptions but most of the researchers and engineers and designers I meet use Macs.
And now that there's bootcamp, they aren't stuck with PCs.
Now there are some decent PC based laptops, and I own some of the older ones (Toshiba Tecra, for example) but they cost as much as Macbook Pros.
And they aren't even sold in regular stores...
http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/tecra/R850
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)isn't on Facebook.
I prefer pen & paper, myself.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)D'OH! Actually I did do that. E-GADS!
I still have all of my notebooks (and text books) from college. They're tomes now. How many of those computer files will still be accessible in 25 years? Oh, and the guy in the front row with the black cap is doing something naughty. Look at the girl in the blue shirt next to him. The guy in the red shirt three rows back can obviously see it as well.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)It was a room full of vacuum tubes. They generated a lot of heat. Nobody could stand to be in that room for long.
A word was ten decimal digits: a two-digit op code followed by two four-digit addresses.
That was my first experience in programming.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)And there's nothing like counting clock cycles.
hunter
(38,311 posts)YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)That is what they called keeping the eye on the prize when I was in School. They keep the topic in mind not going to some other web site and playing around. Go Old School!
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Maybe his powerpoint presentation is available by wifi so the students have their own copy and can see it easier on thier laptops.
Maybe it's a programming class, or a graphic design class.
The guy without forgot his or it is broken so he's trying to make notes of what he needs to study when he gets it back.
And yeah, that most are Macs isn't surprising.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)when we all used pen and paper for note-taking. You remember things you write down much more completely, at least I do. I also remember writing my senior thesis in college on an original IBM PC - the kind where you had to put a 5 1/2" (?) floppy into it to get it to do anything. All the computers were in the department word processing lab.
The first firm I worked for after graduating from law school in the late '80s spent zillions on a Wang word processing system that was made obsolete within two years by desktop PCs. Hilarious, and they were real assholes anyway. One younger attorney insisted on having a PC on his desk to write his own briefs and memos rather than writing them in longhand and vgiving them to a secretary to transcribe. A senior partner observed him working on his computer and told him "Mr. Smith, lawyers do not type." It is to laugh.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)I know it's fallen out of fashion now, but the VPs I worked for in the past preferred not even to have to write.
Oh and yes, you most certainly do recall information more easily if you write it down as opposed to typing it.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)all had their individual preferences. Some dictated, some wrote it out long hand.
I didn't care. Got paid either way.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)(and they were guys) dictate even legal briefs. I must put words on a screen, and ultimately paper, in order to get them the way I want them. I just cannot (dash) and never will be able to (dash) speak like that (period, end of paragraph)
I even worked for one partner who would call me into his office and make me sit there while he dictated the memo outlining the research project he wanted me to do. He was a good guy and a great lawyer but that was a really weird little habit he had.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)It used to look like this:
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I was a very fast scribe in school, and my wriring was always legible. But I would have enjoyed using a laptop and going even faster. It would be a lot lighter than carrying paper books.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)With iPads or tablets, schools can save money this way, even accounting for theft and loss.