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My experience with school was that teachers designed the classroom to be whatever was most comfortable or "fun" for them, not the students. We had one teacher who moved everything around the room every few months because she liked the fresh feeling you get from redecorating. I'm also convinced this shitty open design format lowered my already poor marks in at least two classes between middle and HS. Not only from neck turning but from not wanting to sit at a table staring at another annoying student who wanted to be there even less than me.
The entire classroom structure is inherently bad for male learning period. Men learn better in hands on active instructions, this is why they take to math, engineering, surgery, etc at far higher rates than women. Women benefit from the sit still and listen method because they are often more auditory and passive learners, this is also why women tend to take notes more than men because men recreate the information internally and then replicate while women use repetition and passive learning through writing down what is said or displayed to memorize the information.
I retain most of what I read. The retention goes up if I write notes. It's a plan and structure. I recreate the scene.
Really? My retention is always based on creating an action or parallel action. That way the memory forms a stronger association than repetition as to recall you only have to pull up the association. This is why I can retain information from audiobooks so easily and often use them while driving or working out.
I'm the opposite. I have ADHD and I cannot retain shit simply through notes. I have to DO shit.
Seconding. If I read it, I'll hold onto it for a week or so until the test. If I also write it once or twice it'll last a few months and a random assortment for longer still.
Doing shit and creating strong associated memories of course do help tremendously in remembering foundational but few bits of information, but for a large chunk that's not exactly capable of being done regularly.