At the beginning of university students may take their notes using pen and paper however, by the end of their degree they may have switched to taking notes in a more modern way and use technology (I.e. tablets, laptops) or vice versa. The study reviews the implications that using technology may have either detrimental or beneficial affects on a student’s grade point average (GPA). It is hypothesized that students who use technology as their dominant way of taking notes will show a lowered GPA than those students whom write their notes manually. 35 females and 15 males from Concordia University of Edmonton took part in the study, the students filled out a survey handed out to them in class. The survey asked questions deemed relevant to the
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In attempt to find the optimal balance between all aspects of life students try a variety of methods of note taking to explore the type of learner the student is in hopes of maintaining the required GPA. Some methods students choose to engage in are pen and pencil, typing notes on a computer, printing off professor lectures, flash cards and group study. The two primary ways students take notes tend to be: typing notes on a computer and writing the notes down using pen and paper. We discovered both positives and negatives with both methods of note taking; typing the notes may allow for your notes to be precise and legible however, there are many distractions on computers. Writing notes with pen and paper may be faster and allows students to draw diagrams and pictures to represent the work however, may not be legible what so …show more content…
The objective of our study was to explore the relationship between technology in classrooms and student’s GPA’s, whether it would lower or raise student’s GPA’s. The dependant variable is GPA scores of students, and the independent variable is the whether technology was used as the way the students wrote notes or not. We hypothesized that using technology such as tablets, smartphones, and tablets as the dominant way to take notes in the classroom will lower the GPA of the
In attempt to find the optimal balance between all aspects of life students try a variety of methods of note taking to explore the type of learner the student is in hopes of maintaining the required GPA. Some methods students choose to engage in are pen and pencil, typing notes on a computer, printing off professor lectures, flash cards and group study. The two primary ways students take notes tend to be: typing notes on a computer and writing the notes down using pen and paper. We discovered both positives and negatives with both methods of note taking; typing the notes may allow for your notes to be precise and legible however, there are many distractions on computers. Writing notes with pen and paper may be faster and allows students to draw diagrams and pictures to represent the work however, may not be legible what so …show more content…
The objective of our study was to explore the relationship between technology in classrooms and student’s GPA’s, whether it would lower or raise student’s GPA’s. The dependant variable is GPA scores of students, and the independent variable is the whether technology was used as the way the students wrote notes or not. We hypothesized that using technology such as tablets, smartphones, and tablets as the dominant way to take notes in the classroom will lower the GPA of the