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Methods for Taking Effec4ve Notes
First Things First • Do read the assigned readings for class ahead of 4me, perhaps even taking some notes from your reading!
• Don’t sit next to your friends in class if you want to take good notes.
• Don’t hesitate to ask ques4ons of the teacher if you don’t understand something.
• AFempt to capture in your notes main ideas, key facts, vocabulary, and cri4cal examples.
• Try to pay aFen4on and listen…
Five Important Reasons to Take Notes • Notes trigger memories of lecture/reading • Your notes are oMen a source of valuable clues for what informa4on the instructor thinks most important (i.e., what will show up on the next test).
• Notes inscribe informa4on bodily (muscle memory)—remember mul4ple intelligences.
• Taking notes helps you to concentrate in class • Notes create a resource for test prepara4on • Your notes oMen contain informa4on that cannot be found elsewhere (i.e., in your textbook)
Streamline Your Notes
• Eliminate small connecting words such as: is, are, was, were,
a, an
• Eliminate pronouns such as: they, these, his, that, them
• Do not eliminate: KEEP - in, on.
• Drop the last several letters of a word (appropriate with
approp)
• Drop some internal vowels of a word (large with lrg)
• Use texting symbols!
Using Symbols • And/Plus &+ • Equals = • Minus -‐ • Number # • Times x • Greater than, more, larger > • Less Than, less, smaller < • With W/ • Without w/out • Within w/in • Because b/c • Different d/f • Leads to, produces, results in → • Comes From ← • Per ∕ • Mutual InteracRon ↔ • Increase ↑ • Decrease ↓ • At @ • For 4
The 6 R’s of Note Taking
• Record – write down key informa4on. Ideas/concepts that are important
• Reduce – what you are summarizing and lis4ng key phrases
• Recite-‐ look at the previous notes from homework and class
• Reflect – reflect on informa4on you learned in class • Recall-‐ Test your memory, don’t look at your notes or book, and write down what you can remember
• Review – review all your notes daily!
The Mapping Method
• Mapping is a graphic representa4on of the content of a lecture. It is a method that maximizes ac4ve par4cipa4on, affords immediate knowledge as to its understanding, and emphasizes cri4cal thinking.
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Telepathy Clairvoyance Psychokineisis
Sending Messages Forecas4ng the Future Perceiving Events to external Situa4ons
This format helps you to visually track your lecture regardless of condi4ons. LiFle thinking is needed and rela4onships can easily be seen. It is also easy to edit your notes by adding numbers, marks, and color coding. Review will call for you to restructure thought processes which will force you to check understanding. Review by covering lines for memory drill and rela4onships. Main points can be wriFen on flash or note cards and pieced together into a table or larger structure at a later date. You may not hear changes in content from major points to facts. Use when the lecture content is heavy and well-‐organized. May also be used effec4vely when you have a guest lecturer and have no idea how the lecture is going to be presented.
Different types of Maps!
The Char4ng Method
Example Period Important
People Events Significance
1941-‐45 FDR WWII USA INVOLVEMENT
Method Try to set up your paper in advance by columns headed by categories. As you listen to your teacher’s lecture, record informa4on (words, phrases, main ideas, etc.) into the appropriate category.
The Char4ng Method
Example Period Important
People Events Significance
1941-‐45 FDR WWII USA INVOLVEMENT
Advantages Helps you track conversa4on and dialogues where you would normally be confused and lose out on important content. Reduces amount of wri4ng necessary. Provides easy review of the material.
The Char4ng Method
• Disadvantages – Few disadvantages except learning how to use the system and loca4ng the appropriate categories. You must be able to understand what’s happening in the lecture.
The Outlining Method
I. Extrasensory percep4on Defini4on: means of perceiving without use of sense organs. A.three kinds – 1. telepathy: sending messages 2. clairvoyance: forecas4ng the future 3. psychokinesis: perceiving events external to
current status II. no current research to support or refute
few psychologists say impossible
WHEN TO USE
• The outline format can be used if the lecture is presented in outline organiza4on. Use this format when there is enough 4me in the lecture to think about and make organiza4on decisions when they are needed.
• This format can be most effec4ve when your note taking skills are super and sharp and you can handle the outlining regardless of the note taking situa4on.
DIRECTIONS
• Dash or indented outlining is usually best except for some science classes such as physics or math.
• The informa4on which is most general begins at the leM with each more specific group of facts indented with spaces to the right.
• The rela4onships between the different parts are carried out through inden4ng.
• No numbers, leFers, or Roman numerals are needs.
Recall Column Record Lecture Notes in Larger Column
Cornell Method –FORMAT
The Cornell system is not really a method of taking or recording notes; it is more a system for organizing your notes into an effec4ve study guide. To be used later. It is really used for review…
Recall Lecture on character development The Giver
Jonas–main charac.
Jonas struggles to understand the fact that his community is not what he thought it was.
Sameness In Jonas’ world everyone is treated the “same”; choices are made for them.
Integrity of choice
Jonas has to make a decision that will change his community
Jonas learns about the reality of his community from The Giver.
Summary: Jonas is forced to understand his role and
Cornell Method
• The Cornell system promotes ac4ve learning and cri4cal thinking, providing a method by which you can increase your comprehension of class material. There are five stages involved in the Cornell note taking method.
Cornell 600…advanced.
• Reviewing notes within 24-‐48 hours of the lecture can increase how much material you remember by approximately 80%. Another way of looking at this is that if you don’t review within 24-‐48 hours of the informa4on learned, you will forget approximately 80% of the material. This means that you have to spend addi4onal 4me relearning the informa4on prior to a test.
• Write key words and phrases in the recall column to summarize main points of the lecture.
• Use as few words as possible. • Include ques4ons that help you to clarify unclear ideas or to elaborate on your
lecture notes by connec4ng ideas together. • Finally, summarize the lecture in your own words. Summarizing informa4on is
another way of reviewing and cri4cally thinking about what you have learned. This helps you iden4fy what you know and understand, as well as making very obvious the informa4on for which you need addi4onal clarifica4on from the teacher or study partners.
Can You Remember The 6 R’s of Note Taking?
• Record • Reduce • Recite • Reflect • Recall • Review
PRACTICE
• Remember that the three major keys to taking notes are:
A. Preparing for class: doing your homework B. Reading the assignments that are assigned C. Listen in class! Lead, Ideas, Summarize, Talk, End, Notes (Listen to the explana4on on the video)