J12aGuan commented 3 months ago

Create a Google Doc and question why students may struggle in school

Ways to do this

Talk with fellow students or teachers/peers
Interview other students
Read some student forums

Things to consider

Is note-taking really the reason students don't do well on tests?
How might their response relate to what we are building?
Is there something we might want to add to our app?

Format example

Student 1: "I struggle with understanding my notes after I take them"
Student 2: "I struggle to concentrate while taking notes"

MenlyCSE commented 2 months ago

Sources  - Student Forums

https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/do-i-need-to-take-less-notes.1423541/ https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/109500-grad-students-how-do-you-take-notes/  https://discuss.codecademy.com/t/question-of-the-week-note-taking-strategies/590373/3 https://www.physicianassistantforum.com/topic/24758-current-students-how-do-you-prefer-to-take-notes/

Is note-taking the reason students don't do well on tests?

Student: I use personal-made flashcards to avoid jotting too many notes from my lectures
Student: I summarize the professor’s slides to avoid taking too many notes
Student: I take notes because it engages my brain. I don’t bother reviewing them
Student: I’ve seen many student taking pages of notes, but end up laughing about it later on
Student: “I’ve come to realize my obsessive note-taking was a symptom of having too much free time”
Student: I use Anki, which is a flashcard app that helps me
Student: It’s nice to record and listen back through class sessions while studying
Student: "I much prefer taking notes by hand. It helps me really understand and work through what I’m learning"

Overall, it seems like the students who succeed make work easiest for themselves. They take notes to stimulate their brains so the information becomes easier to recall.

It seems that more experienced students like to keep things simple and easy for themselves by taking fewer notes. And they achieve better results that way.
It also seems that less experienced students take more notes which makes things harder
Students likely want to increase how much information they recall. So, it seems probable that they mostly use active recall to study

How might their response relate to what we are building?

I wonder if we could take student notes and find a way to challenge them in a fun and easy way. That would stimulate their brains without doing the work for them.

In what other ways could we process the notes we receive from students to make something that might stimulate their minds?
For example, could we use the notes we get from students and turn them into a simple game web game that would make things fun and increase active recall?

J12aGuan commented 2 months ago

Market Research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19tQY4co4WDu_I1dT_JPfN9ouIOEsou5r1G24OvczXQI/edit?usp=sharing