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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

Notetaking In The Digital Classroom: A Blended Learning Approach - 1 views

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notes 21st Century Skills Tool

shared by Tracey Kracht on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • according to a 2010 study, only 66.5% of students take notes.
  • there is often no structure or strategy.
  • When used in combination with technology, students are able to activate key brain areas during learning, while also retaining critical information for future review.
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  • Today, 40% of students prefer a mix of physical and digital notes.
  • Tracey Kracht on 05 Feb 13
     
    So it may come as a surprise that according to a 2010 study, only 66.5% of students take notes. And of those students, there is often no structure or strategy.
Tracey Kracht

Going Paperless | Jamie Todd Rubin - 0 views

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Going Paperless

shared by Tracey Kracht on 20 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Tracey Kracht on 20 Jan 13
     
    I'm contemplating doing the 30 days to paperless challenge by Evernote as I think it is an interesting concept for one like me who is a habitual sticky-note, to-do list fanatic.  Here is a series of "Going Paperless" blog posts from one of their 'ambassadors"
Tracey Kracht

Reasons Why Students Should Blog | That Math Lady's Blog - 0 views

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  • Tracey Kracht on 22 Mar 13
     
    More reasons students can/should blog!  Note how other 'things' can be embedded into blogs.  In this instance, you will see popplet, but you could embed other concept map tools like padlet, or voice/video sources as well to make it more multi-media.
Tracey Kracht

A Difference: Distributed Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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blogging note-taking

shared by Tracey Kracht on 08 Apr 13 - Cached
  • The Scribe
  • except for test days, a different student is responsible for the daily scribe post.
  • Over the length of the course these scribe posts grow into the textbook for the course, collectively authored by the students; one student at a time, one day at a time.
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  • every student will be scribe a minimum of three times;
  • simply to post a brief summary of what happened in class each day.
  • One of the ideas behind the scribe post is to make students responsible for their own learning.
  • When scribes reach this level of excellence they are inducted into The Scribe Post Hall Of Fame
  • Tracey Kracht on 08 Apr 13
     
    Interesting post about student 'scribes"
April Adams

The Critical 9th Grade Year - 0 views

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    • Charity Stephens
      Charity Stephens on 16 Jan 14
       
      This makes me wonder....it would be awesome if...for freshman year long courses...grades were reported out but not captured on transcripts until the end of the school year.  In December Ss would receive "grades", for Ss below a C conversations would be had between all stakeholders to create a success plan for the S.  But there is really incentive for all Ss...come May if the end grade is substantially higher than the December grade then it would trump that grade (so there would still be Sem1 and Sem2 transcript grades ).  Those not improving would simply have whatever grade documented for December along with the grade earned for semester 2.
    • April Adams
      April Adams on 17 Jan 14
       
      I agree and am impressed with the elements that we are currently doing in our school.  I think we just need to tighten it up.  PG 4 notes another element which we need to improve and that is the ideas of the summer bridge program, the career exploratory courses and the extension of the teacher/advisory programming.  What if, we sent freshmen mentors to the ML to meet their students along with link leaders?  
  • Charity Stephens on 16 Jan 14
     
    The Critical 9th Grade Year...
  • April Adams on 17 Jan 14
     
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