Thing 27: Note taking


The article in The NY Times Laptops are Great, But…  was not surprising.  I work with students whose online credit recovery courses (all core content courses) are on the computer, we have to constantly redirect students.  In addition the article stated there was a “negative externality” with computer use in the classroom, I see this all the time, if a student is distracted and pulls up a YouTube video of high interest he may tell his friend to look at his computer and then you have two distracted students.  Much of this is usually remedied with reminders, but it is especially prevalent with students who already have behavior issues in the classroom or younger students.  For this reason, we recommend students who are either very self-disciplined or older high school students be given preference to complete their course work online.
In the other article I read, it discussed not-taking tips for students.  Our teacher created study guides helps students to find the information online and complete them for students to use for their assignments and to study for the quizzes.  See below.  The article stated that good notes help enhance understanding of material, helping to commit it to long term memory and results in higher test scores.  We have found this to be true, we ensure that the writing assignments in the courses and the questions students are tested on is covered in these study guides.   So in addition to teaching the content we are in fact teaching note taking skills.

2.01 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:
Industrialization Changes America
Complete as you work through the course, so that you have notes to refer back to, and to help you focus as you are working.  
Page 1 of 7 🔻 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION : INDUSTRIALIZATION CHANGES AMERICA
Objective: Please read page 1 to understand what content will be covered in this module.
Page 2 of 7 🔻What Is a Revolution?

Define First Industrial Revolution


Describe how machines were powered.






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