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I've been pondering annnotation of text lately. (This tangentially relates to the annotation work described in many professional books and tools...Mosaic, Comprehension Going Forward, Comprehension Toolkit lessons, etc.) of technology.

I love teaching students to annotate. I think it's a very valuable tool for comprehending text, it slows down the faster readers so they can think more deeply and holds the thinking of those who are slower and may have difficulty remembering their thoughts by the time they get to the end of the piece. In class, we annotate & highlight on the actual text whenever we can. If we can't annotate on the text, I have students write their thougths, questions, comments, on charts, in a notebook, or if I have to, stickies. I can also make a copy to put under the document camera and we can annotate as group.

But how will the use of technology affect the ability for us to annotate in the future? Can you annotate on a kindle? I think I remember...See More
Teri On 6/24/11, Parker-showing her ignorance wrote: > > But how will the use of technology affect the ability for > us to annotate in the future? Can you annotate on a kindle? > I think I remember the answer is no (obviously I don't have > one). > > In 2 years all of our student testing (benchmarks, unit > testing, summative and...See More
Jun 24, 2011
dc You can highlight, underline, and book mark on a Kindle. I'm not sure if I remember if you can make notes in the margins or not. I think you can, but I'm not 100% sure. My husband has the kindle right now, so I'll check on that later.

Yes, Parker, I HATE that we teach them so many marking strategies all year long and then on the STAR test,...See More
Jun 24, 2011
Teri On 6/24/11, dc wrote: > You can highlight, underline, and book mark on a Kindle. I'm not > sure if I remember if you can make notes in the margins or not. I > think you can, but I'm not 100% sure. My husband has the kindle > right now, so I'll check on that later. > > Yes, Parker, I HATE that we teach them so many marking strategi...See More
Jun 24, 2011


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