JONESBORO, AR (KAIT)- Two professors from Arkansas State University have invented a tool to help students take notes. . .by texting!
Dr. Ralph Ruby, Jr. and Dr. Paula Ruby of ASU recently conducted research in teaching strategies, which lead to a new invention!
Dr. Ralph Ruby, “The major part of our research has been in learning and teaching strategies and in the last four years it’s been primarily learning strategies. All of our research pointed to and indicated the fact that note taking increases retention level, thus with retention levels increased test scores will naturally follow. So, we wanted to know how we could take and develop some type of instrument that would help our students increase their retention level. And we looked around and we saw our students using their thumbs doing this thing which we were not familiar with. And as we started talking to them we found out that was texting. And we found out, again, as we were doing more research over the last couple of years, texting has increased at a geometric proportion. Not only in the United States, but around the world.”
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