{"id":13,"date":"2016-11-14T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/?p=5"},"modified":"2016-11-14T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T01:23:10","slug":"whats-the-best-way-to-take-notes-on-your-laptop-or-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/2016\/11\/14\/whats-the-best-way-to-take-notes-on-your-laptop-or-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the best way to take notes on your laptop or tablet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many different tasks are you attempting on your screen right now?<\/p>\n<p>This is the question posed in a recent article in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/au\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation<\/a> exploring the best way to take notes on an electronic device. As research indicates only 5% of people multi-task efficiently, beyond banning technology in the classroom, what solutions can we find to help our students and ourselves note more effectively on an electronic device?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here are some tips to get you started:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 1<\/strong>: Working memory is important \u2013 chunking \u2018like\u2019 information together, using your own words, summarising and reflecting all help as long as notes are reprocessed later on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 2<\/strong>: Structured learning tasks help \u2013 build the technology actively into the lesson. This results in less time multi-tasking and more time-on-task for learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 3<\/strong>: Share responsibility \u2013 working with students to decide how technology can be used is important. Try making contracts on use that can be revisited later in the semester.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 4<\/strong>: Encourage easy tools \u2013 word-processed notes can be distributed to the class allowing students to annotate them and can be shared, encouraging the process of note-taking note-making, note-interacting and note-reflecting.<\/p>\n<p>For more tips and information, see the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/whats-the-best-way-to-take-notes-on-your-laptop-or-tablet-43630\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many different tasks are you attempting on your screen right now? This is the question posed in a recent article in The Conversation exploring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,25],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-student-engagement","tag-teaching"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}