Make Your Notes Last 📝 A Practical Guide for Students

Well? What do you think? Is there such a thing as critical thinking, or is that just what naturally occurs when you know a lot of stuff about the world? And what should the goal of university instructors be: to train critical thinking skills or to share a wide foundation of fact-based knowledge? Regardless, the zettelkasten is the most holistic method for learning, notetaking, and knowledge management I've found!

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✨TIMESTAMPS✨
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - what the heck is critical thinking
3:44 - you just need to know lots of information
6:02 - what your notetaking system needs
7:38 - grow your knowledge on Skillshare!
9:08 - start a zettelkasten for school
16:56 - an example
18:41 - a better example
20:52 - so, does critical thinking even exist, then?
21:26 - important final thoughts

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[matrn]

I wish I had seen this video 3 years ago and not 3 days before the deadline of my undergrad thesis. It would've prevented the crippling feeling of not having learned anything during my time in uni.

[JotaPalma]

This was a great intro video to Zettelkasten for students. I was lucky to have found the method a couple months before starting my Uni course in Psychology. I have such a rich knowledge base with all my course notes and personal notes from media I've consumed, and whenever I have to write an essay, I don't really start from scratch! I always have some notes and articles read about the subject.

[JustinDMorehead]

As I begin on my master's thesis journey, I'm immensely grateful for this video's release! Your simplified approach to Zettelkasten is a game-changer. The idea of creating temporary folders for classes is an elegant solution to a significant struggle I faced in organizing my class notes during the academic quarter. Your solution blends organization within the academic term with integration with broader knowledge. Thank you!

[ngelv]

4:12 Oh, I didn't know about Sue Young and Robert Wilson's learning model. It looks less rigid than Bloom's. Thanks for sharing, Morgan! ❤

[metanoiete]

Another instance of excellent teaching! Clear statement of the question (and the target audience), helpful broadening of the frame of reference, excellent specific examples, and clean walk through of practical path to now-and-future active learning.

Lovely to experience! Thank you for doing this.

[rustyrebar]

These videos are great. I really like how you show practical examples

[chrismoellering]

Great video. I butted heads a fair bit with the "critical thinking" crowd when I was in instructor, because, as you show, you can't critically think without knowledge to think critically about!

[JimShingler]

This video was very helpful in adding to my understanding of Zettelkasten. Thank You very much

[robertstorlind]

This is my favourite video so far from your production. I've watched it multiple times and found new ideas to try each time. A great summary and motivation of the zettelkasten ideas. Keep up the good work and good luck with the dissertation🎉

[flowingblaze]

This was a very informative and well made video, Thank you so much for making it morgan!

[carlospolesso]

I wish i discovered your channel years ago, you've been of great help to me on the writing of my Masters Thesis. Thank you so much!

[chidiogoezeugwu]

Thank you Morgan your video has helped me see taking notes in a much better light. That it can prove to be immensely useful in building my critical thinking in the future!

[ADAPIVE]

Thank you. I've been using Obsidian for a while and I'm going back to school soon; your recommendation to have the backlink to the course a reading came from is a great idea to organize by class, without unduly compartmentalizing the knowledge. I was going to try map-of-content notes to collate course materials/content, but your way is much simpler.

[Myyoutuba]

Thanks a lot this video was very helpful if you could make similar ones that would be great ! Also if you could do a video on how to actually study those notes and make use of them that would be awesome thanks again

[StellasVegetablegardens]

What is amazing is i just added critical thinking to my zettelkasten as an area i need to explore and this was in my suggested videos 😮

[cedargrace]

Yet another extremely helpful video. I love how you explain things in a way I, as a beginner, can understand. This is so helpful for me as I take notes for all of my classes. I have a funny concern. For every article I read for class, I end up creating so many notes because there is so much rich information I want to explore and capture. Is this ever " a problem"? I only started my ZK a month ago, and it is expanding quickly. I guess I fear it'll get unwieldy but I guess that's the beauty of it, it's all interconnected. As I'm "note-making", I'm thinking "I'll definitely want to explore this more later." So I save almost everything. LOL

[brendanmullaley]

Amazing :) great insight and I love your editing skills!

[xiu]

Im trying to find a good structure for my undergrad and this was super helpful!

[fahrradflucht]

Thank you for recommending that @JJMcCullough video. Very interesting perspective on education.

[timbushell]

"Don't do as I did, do as I say." Said every parent, teacher and mentor. :

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