{"id":61578,"date":"2017-11-27T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=61578"},"modified":"2017-11-27T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:31:54","slug":"helping-students-learn-how-to-learn-some-ideas-regarding-note-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/11\/27\/helping-students-learn-how-to-learn-some-ideas-regarding-note-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping students learn how to learn: Some ideas regarding note-taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<br \/>\n<\/em>One of the biggest gifts that we can give our students today is <strong>learning how to learn.<\/strong> Along those lines, I was thinking about <strong>note-taking<\/strong> the other day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Many students may not know how to take good notes, and to make the notes\/thoughts their own. So I was thinking, <strong>wouldn&#8217;t it be great if, for each professor&#8217;s class, there was a place where students could go to see what exemplary notes look like for several &#8212; even many &#8212; of the sessions of a particular class?! <\/strong>If there were an accompanying audio-based or a video-based commentary that could relay the note-taker&#8217;s thinking\/information processing, all the better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">These notes could be provided by the professor herself\/himself or by a 4.0-type of student who has demonstrated solid study habits and shows a strong capacity for processing information.\u00a0 The notes would want to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Demonstrate what good note taking looks like<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Provide examples of one&#8217;s own wording\/understanding of the material<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Identify\/show any gaps in understanding by listing their own remaining questions. This type of gap analysis could help the learners see what a metacognitive check-in might look like.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">By doing something like this, students could see what the main points were, what effective note taking looks like, and to see that the note-taker has taken the time to put some of their own reflections\/summaries alongside the larger set of notes.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It would also be interesting to provide a platform whereby students could contribute\/share their own notes to help others better understand not only the materials covered, but what different methods of note-taking might look like. Perhaps a certain style of note-taking would jump out at any given learner. Also, doing so would foster a more collaborative approach, as is often needed in the real-world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">An accompanying forum could be made available for students&#8217; discussions of a particular class\/topic. This forum could highlight for the professor what the areas of struggle are as well as how the material is being processed by the students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">On a separate thought&#8230;we also need to help students <strong>form <em>habits<\/em> of learning<\/strong>, such as regularly checking into streams of content (i.e., micro-learning).\u00a0 If we can model this in the ways that we relay content and encourage dialog around a topic, then they will be that much better equipped to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Deal with the new pace of exponential change<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Reinvent themselves, if need be<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Practice lifelong learning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Learn how to pulse-check their surroundings<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: One of the biggest gifts that we can give our students today is learning how to learn. Along those lines, I was thinking about note-taking the other day. Many students may not know how to take good notes, and to make the notes\/thoughts their own. So I was thinking, wouldn&#8217;t it be great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,115,498,302,260,72,286,32,545,3,419,180,119,102,7,15,815,44,173,309,196,20,491,393,66,50,195,214,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-heutagogy","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-lifelong-learning","category-microlearning","category-pace-of-change","category-pedagogy","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-strategy","category-streams-of-content","category-student-teachingteacher-education","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-tools","category-universities","category-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61578"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61586,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61578\/revisions\/61586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}