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Digital Annotation: Don't Just Own a Book, Possess It - Getting Smart by Adam Renfro - ... - 0 views

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  • Why annotate, though? Annotating gives readers a deeper understanding of content. Readers who actively engage the text remember the content longer than the casual reader does. It lets the reader get personal with the text by asking questions, clarifying and arguing points, and praising the author’s ideas.
    • Sara Wickham
      Sara Wickham on 13 Sep 13
       
      This idea reiterates how important it is to establish a purpose for reading.  There are many ways to annotate - which way are you looking for? 
  • Keep in mind that highlighting text, while important, is the lowest form of annotation.
    • Sara Wickham
      Sara Wickham on 13 Sep 13
       
      Wow - that's quite a statement, but probably true.  It's important that students begin a conversation with the text.  Highlighting is passive; conversing is active. 
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Note-Taking Effectiveness and the Digital Revolution - 0 views

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  • Sara Wickham on 13 Sep 13
     
    Great infographic on the power of taking notes and how they can be enhanced with digital tools
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Why We Need a Moratorium on Meaningless Note-Taking - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Da... - 1 views

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  • 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 11 Sep 13
       
      This is so true.  Reminds of the idea that students should be able to make notes, not just take 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 11 Sep 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 11 Sep 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 11 Sep 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 11 Sep 13
       
      Great ideas here on how note-taking can become more meaningful in a digital world.
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