Not Kevin here, but my students also enjoy note taking. The
formal notes (outline method) satisfy a need in the
students that are very organized and traditional, They all
enjoy learning how to take charge of their learning. My
students also love to take notes in pictorial form(even
sometimes creating a comic strip).I sometimes have to turn
away students from my lunch study session because they
have so much fun. I teach roughly 100 students and can
only take the first 25 or so that sign up. At the lunch
time session we come up with funny memory devices, race to
"draw" the answer, time ourselves at labeling on the map,
work in teams in a quiz show format,etc. I've actually
heard my kids say, "This is fun." Some of my students enjoy
competing to see who can come up with the most sensible,
complete notes (that I would write) because then I'll copy
them for everyone else and they have the satisfaction of
being the author.
On 6/28/09, Sara wrote:
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>> On 6/24/09, Kev wrote:
>>> Just wanted to point out that over half of my
>>> students cited notes as their favorite activity in
>>> my class last year and I did them for an hour twice
>>> a week.
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>>> Notes don't have to be boring or tedious!
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> I'd love to know more about how you go about this - how
> do you do notes that makes it work so well for student
> interest?
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