255: Nine of our Favorite Note-taking Strategies

<p>We asked our community of Shifting Schools newsletter subscribers to vote on this week's topic and they voted for a conversation on note-taking strategies.</p> <p>(By the way did you know you can also sign up for our free newsletter at <a href= "https://www.shiftingschools.com?)">www.shiftingschools.com?)</a></p> <p>Jeff and Tricia were so excited to discuss their nine favorite strategies in this week's episode:</p> <p dir="ltr">1. Demystify the process: make space for learners to share what note-taking strategies they’ve developed by inviting students to so short share-outs or small group presentations.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">2. Collaborative note-taking: invite groups or the entire class to collaborate on taking notes</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">3. <a href= "https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/save-last-word-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Save the last word</a> for me from Facing History: remember that you can use conversation as the catalyst for notes</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">4. Social silent reading: this might be Jeff's favorite--it is powerful for learners of all ages</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">5. Use protocols like those found in <a href= "https://shiftingschools.lpages.co/2023-protocols/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">our free guide. </a></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">6. Use Jamboard-specifically our 'might mights' framework to gather questions. You can find that <a href= "https://www.shiftingschools.com/free-pdfs">guide here.</a></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">7. Leverage annotation mentor texts using Genius.com</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">8. Invite students to record a video tour of their notes to be shared with others</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">9. Leverage ChatGPT to ask for a template and in small teams make improvements</p> <p><strong id= "docs-internal-guid-71f397cf-7fff-ae2a-6d21-a340e95cce9b"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-04b69713-7fff-a279-70bd-bf024841ed4b"> </strong><br />