55. POWER NOTE TAKING (Writing, Feedback, Discussion, Questioning)
Description: Power Note Taking is a strategy used to record essential information while denoting its level of importance. Students use the Power Note Taking protocol as a technique to compel them to differentiate hierarchies of information.
Application: Use this technique as a way for students to discern and make judgments about information.
Process: Model Power Note Taking with a general subject before giving students a graded assignment. Select a reading, video, or other rich text that lends itself to this type of note taking. Have students read/watch selection, taking “traditional” notes. Within those notes, have students identify the levels of importance by marking each fact using 1-4, with 1 being most important or significant and 4 being least important or significant. After the activity, ask students to turn to a neighbor and compare/contrast levels. Once that has been completed, display answer key, and encourage students to comment on the answers.
Description: Power Note Taking is a strategy used to record essential information while denoting its level of importance. Students use the Power Note Taking protocol as a technique to compel them to differentiate hierarchies of information.
Application: Use this technique as a way for students to discern and make judgments about information.
Process: Model Power Note Taking with a general subject before giving students a graded assignment. Select a reading, video, or other rich text that lends itself to this type of note taking. Have students read/watch selection, taking “traditional” notes. Within those notes, have students identify the levels of importance by marking each fact using 1-4, with 1 being most important or significant and 4 being least important or significant. After the activity, ask students to turn to a neighbor and compare/contrast levels. Once that has been completed, display answer key, and encourage students to comment on the answers.
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55. Power Note Taking
http://www.adlit.org/strategies/22370/
55. Power Note Taking
http://www.adlit.org/strategies/22370/
