Recording for Note-Taking

Although I never considered myself handicapped, I was not a good notetaker in college or law school because I couldn’t concentrate on the lecturer’s words and take good notes at the same time. (I was educated before laptops were available.) I was a visual, not an auditory learner, so learning by listening was hard work for me. In law school, we were discouraged from using “canned notes” we could buy, but they were a godsend for me because I could listen closely and annotate them instead of struggling to write what I heard.

Now at age 87-plus, I serve as the recording secretary of an organization where the board members talk over each other at meetings. My job would be impossible without the recording app on my iPhone. Did the policy makers who have banned recording devices in meetings and classrooms at PU given any thought how unfair their edict is on visual learners?