Summarizing+and+Note+taking+(Frank)

**__ Summarizing and Note Taking __** **__ Overview __** Useful student summarizing and note taking could begin with the freedom to eliminate the irrelevant information by seeking to replace it with key concepts and ides of the subject area. Researchers suggest that teachers could work to help students recognize how to synthesize and structure information in their thinking for better retention by using a summary framework “which typically include a series of questions the teacher provides to direct student attention to specific content” (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001). In addition, student summarizing is the point of departure when simple note taking become an opportunity to extract useful chunks of knowledge from information. At this point students will have to think deeply and decide on what information to keep in their summary and what to discard (Anderson, V., & Hidi, 1988/1989; Hidi & Anderson, 1987). It is also noted that students could be encouraged to focus on visualizing the bigger ideas when summarizing their notes in order to delete redundant or unnecessary sentences. Source: Focus on Effectiveness-Summarizing and Note Taking, []

**__ 1st Technology __**  ( __Web as Resource)__ Cliffs Notes Website, []

The Cliffs Notes website was one of the original school note summarizing student oriented Internet locations. These types of websites did have a reputation for short cutting the learning process, but due to today’s expansiveness of academic information these resources are now invaluable.

This Cliffs Notes website provides study guides for students that are written by teachers and college professors who understand the value of summarizing class notes for exam and testing preparations. Researches have noted that the students who can effectively summarize, analyze and identify key concepts found in their notes will be able to decide on what information to keep, delete or substitute when studying. (Anderson, V., & Hidi, 1988/1989; Hidi & Anderson, 1987).
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An up to date Computer with High Speed Internet access Cost: The Free to low cost use Internet web environment
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**__ 2nd Technology __**  ( Handheld) Portable Digital Recorder, [|Zoom H4n Handy Portable Digital Recorder] []

<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This Portable Digital Recorder is promoted as being an excellent choice for a professional grade audio recording in the classroom environment.

<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The use of portable digital recorders in the classroom is on the upswing because it assists the student in reviewing and revising their own notes, thus allowing their notes to become more meaningful and useful (Anderson & Armbruster, 1986; Denner, 1986; Einstein, Morris, & Smith, 1985).
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__ 3rd. Technology __** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> ( Web Environments) <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;">Course-Notes.Org website, [],

<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;">Course-Notes.Org website provides free course notes, outlines, vocabulary terms, study guides and practice exams to help high school students with their homework. This class notes summary website also allows for student forum idea exchanges and collaborations activities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal; margin: auto 0in;">This website environment is unique because it addresses the academic note taking and summarizing concerns of the high school student that will need to synthesize academic information in its various forms. “Notes should be in both linguistic and nonlinguistic forms, including idea webs, sketches, informal outlines, and combinations of words and schematics; and, the more notes, the better” (Nye, Crooks, Powlie, & Tripp, 1984).
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Education Challenge:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The educational challenge for implementing this strategy would be the teacher directed note taking and summarizing skills to be conveyed to the students. The students will not be able to intuitively apply a formal process rule based strategies for summarizing their notes and extrapolating key concepts, so the teachers would need to offer specific instructions. “Teach a formal process. Teach students the delete-substitute-keep process for summarizing. A "rule-based strategy" for summarizing includes a specific set of steps” (Brown, Campione, & Day, 1981). It’s conceivable that students would need to be taught how to examine their notes for essential and redundant information.