Reading Notes from Students, Winter 2023

I taught a class in Winter 2023 where the students submitted weekly Reading/Listen/Watch notes.
For the readings, students were encouraged to use whatever is their current reading method, and to adapt it given our discussions of reading notes each class.
For the audio and video sources assigned in the class, students were encouraged to just do a short 100 word summary.
Students also wrote a short reflection about how effective the notes were each week at helping them learn the material and creating a resource that would help them quickly and effectively review the source later.
Students were encouraged to focus on the main points in the readings, rather than get lost in all the details. They were also encouraged to find a way to separate out, clearly, the main points from supporting details in their notes.
In this post, I'll show you (with their permission) how some of the students' notes progressed over the term.

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