Do you think tape recording is a good form of note taking in classrooms? Why?
Personally I have not found it too helpful, but since so many people use them, and companies have gotten rich off of selling the recorders there must be some value, just hasn’t worked for me. 1) If I know I have a tape recording of some boring lecture I am ten times more likely NOT to listen to it while I am in class. And I always say I will listen to it when I get home, but if it is that boring I am not going to listen to it when I have more fun things to do. 2) As of yet I have not found a really great tape recorder. Your ears are a great design they actually filter a lot of noise so that your brain only hears what you want to hear. Tape recorders do not do this (at least none of the ones I have found). If you leave a tape recorder on a desk while the professor is talking, if you are lucky you will hear the the professor but this will almost always be drown out by the sound of the tape recorder taping the sound of itself recording, the deafen sound of pencils writing on paper (as if
