Note-taking Strategies
Guiding Questions:
What are some ways of building the skills necessary for note-taking?
What are some note-taking strategies?
Chain Reaction
The class will stand in a circle. One person will begin by asking a quesiong of a second person. The second person will answer the question and then ask another question of a third person. The first rounds of questions and answers should be about this course's curriculum. The second round of questions should be about other course curriculum, and the third round of questions can be your choice.
Observational Inquiry Activity
As you watch the following video, please pay attention to the note-takers:
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Use of the page
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Use of shortform
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Use of personal connections
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Identification of personal connections
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Use of inquiring mental frame
DEBRIEF:
1. What specific elements make this an effective note?
2. What could make this note more effective?
Digital Investigation
Your task will be to research and identify two types of note-taking strategies that you feel best fit you as a learner. For each note-taking style you are to answer the following:
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What are the elements of this note-taking style?
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Why would this note-taking style be most effective for me?
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In what ways does it satisfy all the requirements of effective notes?
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What might be a disadvantage of this note-taking style?
Please remember to record this information in a creative way in your digital portfolio (on the note-taking page). You can create a video, an infographic, a powerpoint, the sky is the limit.
Once you have assessed each note-taking style, you are expected to "put them in action". You are to spend time throughout the next few weeks using each style in all your classes.
You will collect all the notes you create with each style and then analyze how effective your note-taking process was.
The following must be included in your digital portfolio:
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at least 2 samples of each note-taking style
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an evaluation of which note-taking style was more effective for you and why (this can be in a video, infographic, paragraph, etc)
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a "committment contract" outlining in which classes you will continue to utlize the note-taking style, and the indicators that will signal your progress with that note-taking style.
PLEASE SEE THE ISU SAMPLE IN THIS WEBSITE TO HELP DIRECT YOUR THINKING!
Client-Consultant
Each student will have a turn expressing a concern or a problem that he or she may be experiencing at school. Each person will have a turn at being a “client” while the others are listening as “consultants.”
Consultants:
✦ are to be non-judgmental
✦ are not to tell the client what to do
✦ are to offer alternative suggestions to the client for solving the problem
✦ and may ask for additional information if it seems helpful or necessary.
Before beginning the class will brainstorm the essential skills used for active listening (SLANT)