Listen "408: Two Straightforward Steps to Taking Great Notes"
Episode Synopsis
Too often educators teach specific note taking strategies like Cornell Notes without teaching students WHY they work.
Tune in to hear Gretchen outline a straightforward approach to helping take better notes.
Specifically, she discusses:
Review the Study Cycle, which summarizes the three steps the brain needs to learnUnderstand where good note taking fits into the Study Cycle (hint: encoding!)Discuss the two steps to note-takingLearn tips for how to put each of these steps into practice.
At one point in this episode, Gretchen references the excellent graphic organizers at www.ThinkingMaps.com.
This episode original ran February 18, 2019.
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