Note Taking in a Thinking Classroom
I came across a thread on twitter a month or so ago. It was about a professor who discovered that her students had spent all semester collaborating on one large google doc. They took notes together, asked and answered questions of each other. It was a great example of collaboration. I learned today that a group of students used a Google doc to take lecture notes-- they all took notes simultaneously in a collective file. — stephanie (@mckellogs) December 20, 2016 And I thought to myself, “I wonder if my students would be willing to try something like that”. I knew I’d be running a classroom where students were up at the whiteboards daily, working on problems together. I also realized that this might impact their ability to take coherent notes. So, at the start of this semester, I created a mostly blank google doc and shared it with my students. I provided the first few lesson titles and suggested that they use this space to collect their ...