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Jeff and Tricia were so excited to discuss their nine favorite strategies in this week’s episode:
1. Demystify the process: make space for learners to share what note-taking strategies they’ve developed by inviting students to so short share-outs or small group presentations.
2. Collaborative note-taking: invite groups or the entire class to collaborate on taking notes
3. Save the last word for me from Facing History: remember that you can use conversation as the catalyst for notes
4. Social silent reading: this might be Jeff’s favorite–it is powerful for learners of all ages
5. Use protocols like those found in our free guide.
6. Use Jamboard-specifically our ‘might mights’ framework to gather questions. You can find that guide here.
7. Leverage annotation mentor texts using Genius.com
8. Invite students to record a video tour of their notes to be shared with others
9. Leverage ChatGPT to ask for a template and in small teams make improvements
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