Our tools at our institutes, or why a laptop engineer

    We can assume that this is a post of surprise. We can assume that I still can’t calm down.
    Here , here I touched on the topic of recording lectures (conducting abstracts) on a laptop. It was convenient for me at the time, and I decided to find out who is thinking about this topic. After reading many comments on this post, I realized that I don’t understand a lot of things about life and study.

    I'll start from afar, let's go under the cat, and of course KDPV:


    This photo is hanging on the EDX website- MIT, Harvard, and Princeton Online Learning Initiatives. In the photo are MIT students (the Eleven Cambridge Center is written on the door there). Each of them has a laptop in their hands. It is clear why they have a laptop in their hands - because they are MIT students and (most important) - future engineers. Because I think they think that they will make a living using computers.

    Is it so? Or do they just show up checking mail in between couples? Let's look at the MIT lecture on YouTube, dated 2008, for example:

    Scroll through the lecture, look at the audience. Fak! Yes, there are a lot of people with laptops, someone shows something to someone during the lecture on the screen (probably, how to add a diagram in Word). It's really unreal cool. This (in my subjective opinion) is the beginnings of professionalism - young people strive to solve problems with the tools that they will operate in their professional activities. And the lecturer does not present them with material in some “other special” form - in the form of prepared slides, for example. He both read and wrote on the board, and writes - nothing changes in this part of the interface.

    It really seems logical and very correct to me that for five years a student has been trying to complete his entire educational staff with the help of some laptop applications. After all, then he will come to work, they will give him a laptop. And on it he will do his job.

    So why do we think that we should operate with pen and paper for five years, draw (for example) UML diagrams in notebooks, and not on tablets?
    And why, having come to work, they give me a laptop and a workplace with a scribble, and not a blackboard with felt-tip pens, a set of pencils and a stack of paper?
    Well, it’s understandable why - because all the engineers, in all areas, one way or another, do their job with the help of computers and software - be it compilers, CAD or mathematical modeling tools.

    The idea was voiced that keeping an abstract by hand allows you to better remember the material. Typing on the keyboard leaves nothing in mind. Maybe that's why I can’t figure out the code I wrote six months ago? Maybe it’s better to write it by hand, give it to code monkey, let it stuff, compile, and I’ll go to my daddy’s leaves? I’ll stick the tag “v.0.18” and take it to the room with the Git sign. To hell with sarcasm.

    The human brain is changing very much under the influence of the fact that with the development of the Internet, information has become easily accessible. 20 years ago it was customary to sit in a library and read books. From start to finish. This was the only way to deal with the problem. Now you can "just google." This is such a trend. This is how the world is changing, including how to get an education. And, in my opinion, to live and study using your laptop is the same trend, only somewhat underestimated in our education system.

    I don’t want to reduce everything to the “warm lamp notebook” versus the “soulless cold PDF”, I just want to convey the idea that while studying at the institute, you need to force yourself to work in “combat” conditions - you need to be able to sketch layouts (whatever), commit lectures in git, try Agile-style matan, keep track of your time, set tasks for yourself in Megaplan, control deadlines, etc. Being digital, in short. How to do this without a beech - I do not know.

    In comments, I urge my digital like-minded people (if any). Thanks.

    PS As a counterargument, I will only point out to myself that during the interviews the tasks are still asked to be solved on paper, yes.

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