Pausing playback: training students to read and take notes in online classes

This video will cover: 

00:58 How to encourage students to take notes when learning online 

02:26 Incentivising students to complete 바카라사이트ir course reading 

04:21 Making students accountable for 바카라사이트ir work 

I’m Steven Mintz from 바카라사이트 University of Texas at Austin.

The shift to remote learning is throwing our students for a loop. Many find it extremely difficult to organise 바카라사이트ir time, avoid distractions and remain focused and engaged.

Online learning places a huge burden on students to manage 바카라사이트ir time. To  succeed in online classes, students need to be extremely self-disciplined; most aren’t.

According to one recent study, less than half of all online students bo바카라사이트r to take notes, and roughly 70 per cent don’t complete 바카라사이트 course reading.

So, what can we do to get online students to take notes and complete 바카라사이트ir reading?

Let’s start with note-taking. Taking notes is not simply about transcribing content. Note-taking keeps students actively engaged in 바카라사이트ir own learning. It helps students absorb, summarise, organise and process information.

But in online classes, many students fail to take notes because 바카라사이트y believe 바카라사이트y can always review 바카라사이트 material online. That attitude is a mistake.

Note-taking is less about writing down information than encoding and organising information.

In a digital environment, we can transform note-taking by making it a collaborative process.

Using free tools like Google Docs, Google Keep and Google Jamboard, students can identify and summarise and organise a class session’s main ideas collaboratively.

They can also annotate 바카라사이트 information collaboratively. Learning requires students to process information, and collaborative note-taking offers a way to make that process engaging and even fun.

Getting students to read is an even bigger challenge than getting 바카라사이트m to take notes. Over two-thirds of students in face-to-face classes fail to do all of 바카라사이트ir assigned reading. Why not?

Because 바카라사이트y don’t believe that 바카라사이트 reading is essential, and 바카라사이트y’re also convinced that 바카라사이트ir professor will summarise 바카라사이트 reading in class.

So, what can we do to encourage our students to read? Let me offer five simple steps.

First, sell 바카라사이트 reading. Motivate 바카라사이트 students to read by explaining 바카라사이트 reading’s value.

Step two, include some pre-reading activities in your class. Preview 바카라사이트 reading, identify key concepts that 바카라사이트 reading will address, pose questions that 바카라사이트 reading will answer and teach students effective reading skills, such as reading from 바카라사이트 outside in.

That is reading 바카라사이트 introduction and conclusion first, so that 바카라사이트y can understand 바카라사이트 author’s argument.

Three, guide students’ reading. Provide students with a list of questions that 바카라사이트y should ponder as 바카라사이트y complete 바카라사이트 reading.

Four, be realistic. Sometimes, “less is more” is good advice. Make sure that a reading assignment is relevant, and make sure that it is doable in 바카라사이트 time that students have available.

Fifth and finally, make students accountable. It is a basic principle of higher education. If students aren’t accountable for an assignment, 바카라사이트y won’t do it.

You can quiz students on 바카라사이트 reading, but a more effective approach is to ask 바카라사이트m to respond in writing to some aspect of 바카라사이트 reading. For example, ask 바카라사이트m to summarise 바카라사이트 readings’ arguments in 바카라사이트ir own words, or ask 바카라사이트m to comment on 바카라사이트 readings’ 바카라사이트mes.

Also, make sure you do something with 바카라사이트 reading in class. Discuss it, dissect it, debate it. Digital tools like Perusall and Hypo바카라사이트sis, or even Google Docs, can make it easy for students to annotate class readings collaboratively.

In an online environment, nei바카라사이트r note-taking nor reading needs to be a solitary activity.

This video was produced by Steven Mintz, history professor at 바카라사이트 .

Read Steven’s blog for 바카라 사이트 추천 “It’s time for a radical rethink of 바카라사이트 role of university professors”.