MD Whiteboard for a kinesthetic learner ? A good or bad idea

[alaaz]

I 'm thinking of investing in a white board as i see many people say that it helps a lot of you are a kinesthetic learner

But i was wondering how a white board can be any different then a simple pen and paper

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[theonlytycrane]

ain't nobody got time fo dat

 

[Raney Schauer]

I 'm thinking of investing in a white board as i see many people say that it helps a lot of you are a kinesthetic learner

But i was wondering how a white board can be any different then a simple pen and paper

It isn't.

 

[alaaz]

It isn't.

can you tell why is it better/different than using a pen and paper ?

 

[ndafife]

can you tell why is it better/different than using a pen and paper ?

It isn't.

 

[Raney Schauer]

can you tell why is it better/different than using a pen and paper ?

Unless you're collaborating with other people it's a waste of effort time and resources. If you already have an iPad (and who is in medical school and doesn't have a tablet of some sort) you already have what you need.

What does kinesthetic learning mean to you? If you have to be standing up and moving around in order to study then stand up and move around with an iPad. If you get a white board chances are you're going to end up ignoring it. I've had three of them in my house since I started undergrad and I ended up never using them. iPad Pro and Apple Pencil FTW. It's portable, which can't be said for your whiteboard. You can save what you're doing without doing time wasting stuff like taking a picture of your whiteboard and messaging the pics to yourself or other pointless time wasting contortions. You can do everything in OneNote (for example). You can write on powerpoint in the Microsoft PowerPoint iPad app.

But if you're in love with the idea of a white board by all means get one and see if it integrates into your life. If it doesn't then you have another board to put stuff on with magnets. Yay magnets!

Another way to look at it is if you needed a white board you would have gotten one a long time ago. It would be indespensible.

Maybe you've been binging House and it's creeping in subliminally.

 

[Raney Schauer]

I use iPad Pro and Apple Pencil mostly but on occasion pencil/paper
I gravitate between Notability and iAnnotate

My iPad Pro recently started overheating. What has your experience been with your iPad Pro overheating? I have Apple Care and might need to exchange mine since doing a reset and dl recent iOS update have not helped.

My iPad Pro is only three days old and it's in a Logitech keyboard setup so of there's a heat problem I couldn't tell you. I will say that I got 5 years out of my iPad mini, but it's just not fast enough for what I need to do with it. I used it for flying and it was great for that. Never really had thermal issues with it either.

Heat = battery in Apple stuff. You might need to bring it in for a new battery, but I'm just a user. There's too many questions about your use case to pinpoint what your issue is.

 

[Happy Duck]

Do you guys use the 10.5 or the 12.9?

 

[Raney Schauer]

10.5. I held both and the 12.9 is just a little on the unwieldy side. If I were an illustrator, the bigger one hands down. Coming from the iPad mini though, the 10.5 is plenty big.

 

[Crayola227]

as a somewhat kinesthetic and strongly visual learner, I will say that for some people there absolutely is a difference

 

[ekmf27050]

Volunteering an opinion from the other side, I very much liked to study with a whiteboard in college. Fortunately my favorite study spot had a big whiteboard (and couches!) and I came to use it often while preparing for exams. Not to say that it was magical or anything- it just gave me more space and flexibility than a notebook. I would put my notes out of sight and draw concept maps/charts/structures etc. and connect related chapters and topics. So for me, personally, I felt there was benefit to using it.

 

[Keona]

I used a combo. I liked the white board to draw out concepts, nephron, etc, eventually went to a giant posterboard for each block exam per subject. It helped me a lot! It wasn't the most portable thing though, but it was helpful to have and sit around and look at it when I couldn't study anymore.

 

[Snoopy2006]

I don't even know what a kinesthetic learner is. All I know is I liked studying off whiteboards in college so I got a cheap one from Walmart during med school. I don't use it a ton, but it helps when I draw out difficult concepts and leave it up on my wall for a couple weeks. Looking at it every now and again helps solidify concepts. So for some people, I do think changing the medium helps. Clearly a minority opinion based on the above responses.

 

[libertyyne]

home depot. Melamine sheet . 20 bucks cut to what ever size you want. Enjoy.

 

[de Ribas]

home depot. Melamine sheet . 20 bucks cut to what ever size you want. Enjoy.

Can you erase writing easily on these boards?

I have seen similar self-made boards that are hard to wipe and writings still show through.

 

[libertyyne]

Can you erase writing easily on these boards?

I have seen similar self-made boards that are hard to wipe and writings still show through.

isopropyl etoh or acetone. 20 bucks vs 150.. i could throw out 7 and still come out ahead.

 

[de Ribas]

isopropyl etoh or acetone. 20 bucks vs 150.. i could throw out 7 and still come out ahead.

So it does erase harder? Or not as bad?

 

[libertyyne]

So it does erase harder? Or not as bad?

it erases pretty easily. if you let the marker dry on , just like any other dry erase board you are going to have issues. Acetone really cleans it up nicely. its 20 bucks. its obviously not going to be perfect.

 

[de Ribas]

it erases pretty easily. if you let the marker dry on , just like any other dry erase board you are going to have issues. Acetone really cleans it up nicely. its 20 bucks. its obviously not going to be perfect.

Makes sense

 

[coldcase331]

Well to throw my 2 cents into this, I used white boards very heavily in my first two years. In particular I found it very helpful for biochem, where I would draw out the pathways again and again until I had it down cold. It also helped me compartmentalize certain diseases into groups (like I would have Polyaritis Nodosa/Beurger/Kawasaki on the same part of the board, and that would help me remember they are all the same size of vasculitis).

 

[mistafab]

I would buy one and find out

 

[kraskadva]

Your school will probably have plenty of whiteboards around that you can use and see how you like it before you spend any money on one for home

 

[Crayola227]

I got a little one at the dollar store to try it out. If you need bigger you can upgrade. Or if you start out with the $20 special and don't like it, it won't be difficult to give it away.