Hannah

A question I’ve evolved on considerably is students taking notes. I can no longer advocate for, and, in good conscience, ask students to spend significant time, taking notes. If there is something I need students to refer back to later, I’ll put it on a reference page, sheet, slide, or knowledge organizer. And if there is something I need students to remember later without looking back at a reference, we’ll have done enough retrieval practice, spaced over time, interleaved, using varied conditions that the knowledge will be secure in their long-term memory. In other words, if they need to look at it later, I’ll provide them with a good reference. If they need to remember it later, I’ll teach it and they’ll retrieve it until they don’t need to look back.