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Tracey Kracht

Why We Need a Moratorium on Meaningless Note-Taking - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Da... - 0 views

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note-taking 21st Century Skills

shared by Tracey Kracht on 07 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Instead, students should be learning note-taking as a way of organizing data and curating information they need for a defined purpose.  Students should sift and cull, summarize and synthesize. Students should learn how to take notes in ways that correlate with real-life situations. Finally, students should master the skill of making meaning from their notes and finding the best ways to share that meaning with others.
    • Sara Wickham
      Sara Wickham on 07 Mar 13
       
      This is so true.  Reminds of the idea that students should be able to make notes, not just take notes. 
    • Tracey Kracht
      Tracey Kracht on 09 Sep 13
       
      Absolutely agree - this is so important! Simple strategies would be really great for taking time to have students think and add to their notes.
  • When does our note-taking have a real purpose? When we are collecting field notes, listening to a webinar or YouTube training video, scanning a book for nuggets of wisdom. When we attend workshops or conferences, or even when we meet someone for a networking lunch.
    • Sara Wickham
      Sara Wickham on 07 Mar 13
       
      These are great examples of why we take notes in the professional world.  These would be great examples to share with students.
  • What are the actual skills students need in order to organize the vast amounts of information they must cull through to make meaning and solve problems? Is note-taking from the Internet, from Twitter, or from texts really a different kind of animal? Won’t students buy into the note-taking process if they understand that it matters for something more than spitting back a professor’s lecture notes that haven’t changed in the last twenty years?
    • Sara Wickham
      Sara Wickham on 07 Mar 13
       
      These are great questions!
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  • I have a theory that teachers do this because students refuse to read the boring textbook (another issue), so the teacher digests it for them and then conducts a forced walk through the material. Many teachers, unfortunately, think this is what they are supposed to do; sadly, they think it’s what teaching really is.
    • Sara Wickham
      Sara Wickham on 07 Mar 13
       
      How often do we do the thinking for our students?
  • But at the very least, such notes should include hyperlinks, should be posted in a shared digital space, and should be open to amendment and annotation by the students themselves.
  • Likewise, we need to think of note-taking as something more than the traditional Cornell style. Note-taking should include brainstormed lists, diagrams and drawings, photographs, and other artifacts of learning. We should rethink note-taking not as outlined material for the test, but as blogs, wikis, backchannels, discussion forums, and status updates. The form of the notes should suit their purpose; the tool for taking the notes should do so as well.
    • Sara Wickham
      Sara Wickham on 07 Mar 13
       
      Great ideas here on how note-taking can become more meaningful in a digital world.
Tracey Kracht

EDSITEment | The Best of the Humanities on the Web - 0 views

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informational text tools

shared by Tracey Kracht on 11 Mar 13 - Cached
  • Tracey Kracht on 11 Mar 13
     
    Recommended as a site by Carol Jago during a Common Core presentation.
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