For example, I saw a great presentation at the AVID conference about encouraging students to be creative with their notes. A student used their notes as a canvas to create original little pieces of art that connected to their notes. I love that idea! Now, everyone is not interested in art the same way, but what other ways have you used to engage your students in note taking?
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What instructional practices have worked well in the past to engage your students in note taking.
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I'm very old school apparently - I try to introduce the idea of Cornell Notes early on and to give students at least 1-2 lessons a week where they try it out in their notebooks. I fear that with all of our emphasis, as a profession, on group work, collaboration and the like - compounded with students' reliance on smartphones - that this type of notetaking will become something of a lost art. Not if I can do something about i! :) I do allow them to draw pictures and the like, but that's not the emphasis - it's more on how the student lerans to synthesize information.
I know some other folks including Todd Nussen and Meaghan Mihalic have some nifty methods including sketch notes that they use with students.
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I use quite a bit of variety with notetaking, but I use A LOT of tables for digital notetaking. I do have a folder with lined paper that lives in my classroom that is used for notes. Just last week, students used the folders to take notes about time including creating a timeline to show AD/CE and BC/BCE. It felt more conducive to take notes by hand. When they did History of me, many wanted to draw little sketches and images and do it in a timeline format, so that was also by hand.
It feels like digital is being increasingly forced upon us, and each year, I have more and more students who have accommodation plans that require a voice-to-text, ignore spelling, use the computer for notes, etc., and it feels like I'm losing the ability to use notes by hand.
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I use quite a bit of variety with notetaking, but I use A LOT of tables for digital notetaking. I do have a folder with lined paper that lives in my classroom that is used for notes. Just last week, students used the folders to take notes about time including creating a timeline to show AD/CE and BC/BCE. It felt more conducive to take notes by hand. When they did History of me, many wanted to draw little sketches and images and do it in a timeline format, so that was also by hand.
It feels like digital is being increasingly forced upon us, and each year, I have more and more students who have accommodation plans that require a voice-to-text, ignore spelling, use the computer for notes, etc., and it feels like I'm losing the ability to use notes by hand.
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