Effective Note vTaking MS 31.08.2015

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EffectiveNote TakingDR. MIRANTI PUSPARINI, MPD(KED)

BLO K M E TO DE BE LA JAR

2015



Taking Notes

Studies on memory have shown that, without r

47% of what a person has just learned is forgothe first twenty minutes and 62% is forgotten af

first day. Actively taking notes engages visual, auditory

kinesthetic learning

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Taking Notes

• Don’t write like mad making notes on every word of thlecturer You need to listen as well as takes notes

• If you can, prepare notes ahead of time with the mainadd to your notes during the lecture.

• If you’re easily distracted, sit at the front of the class. A

sitting near others that will also distract you.

• Identify keywords from the lecture and use them as hefor your notes.




Taking Notes

• Organize your notes into headings and subheadings iformat that you can quickly identify them (highlight, unindent, color -code).

• Borrow a classmate’s notes if you miss lectures. Find whose notes you aspire to and copy their format.

• If you’re an auditory learner tape-record the lectureyour notes off of your recordings.




How to take notes

• Although you can sit in a lecture or class and listeinformation that is being presented, taking notes cayou to recall more of the information later on.

• Learning which methods work for you and allow youthe most information can be an effective way to m

most of your notes.




Listen!

• There are many people that become so absotaking notes while they are in class that they flisten.

• Although this seems impossible, failing to listenthat you are automatically taking notes frinformation that is being presented, but you arto absorb and learn the information.




Listen!

• Although you are listening to the infostruggling to capture and take down each whad been stated is not an effective way to listen.




Prepare to Take Notes Before the LeBegins

• There is information that oftenbecomes available throughclass outlines, handouts, andwebsite information.

• This can help you to becomefamiliar with the material that isgoing to be covered in thelecture.





• There are many classes in which an outline is be presented. Take the time to go through thisand underline or highlight any important pointthe material.

• Preparing yourself before the lecture begienable you to reduce the time which is spent through notes once the lecture has begun.





Use a three-ring binder instead of a spiral obook :Pages can be easily removed for reviewing.

Handouts can be inserted into your notes foreferencing.

You can insert your own out-of-class notes in theorder.





Bring highlighters to class. Instructors will fremake comments like,

"This is an important concept."

Or, "Make sure you understand this."

These are direct clues that this will more thaan exam. Highlighting these notes will help remthat this is definitely something you need to kno





Read assigned material and previous classbefore class.

Make notations about material or concepts younderstand. Look up vocabulary words thunfamiliar to you. You will have a better undersabout what the instructor is lecturing about awill allow you to better decipher the more impoints of the lecture.




Avoid Distractions While Taking Note

• There are many forms of distractions that can affect yyou are taking notes Mp3 players, cell phones and electronic gadgets as well as the actions of those arouin the class room can often affect the ability to take noabsorb information through class.





• One of the best ways to avoid distractions whilnotes is to sit at the front of the class.

• Sitting at the front of the class allows you the line of sight to learn the information that given, reduces the mix-ups that can come whare in the back of the classroom.





• You’ll also be in a great location to ask questioyou may have about the material. Althoughinstructors wait until after the lecture hapresented for questions, be sure to take notequestion to ensure that you are remember wha




Create an Outline for the Notes and Headings as Reminders

• Take advantage of keywords and important hwithin the notes to determine important pointthe lecture at the beginning of an importansuch as :• A fact that is going to be on a test, or

• A formula which must be learned.





• It is important to ensure that you are able to recognize these keywords. These keywords afound• on the introduction of the outline of the class le

even

• in the outline of the courseTherefore reading this information can helpeasily and readily determine this information.





• Use these keywords as the heading for thsection of the notes to ensure that your notesorganized.

• This can make it easy to create study aids asbeing easy to locate specific information that

looking for when it comes time to write a tereview a term or concept that you were unfamil




on’tRush

Rushing means that you are entering infoquickly and therefore it can sometimes be impto understand.

Rather than rushing through the notes lfocus on the key points and pieces of informat

are being presented to you and use this informcreate a basis for your notes.




on’tRush

At the point that you find the instructor movingnew topic, but you are still taking notes previous topic Don’t be afraid to leave the section blank and

Use the information in the textbook and other so

complete the notes once the lecture has been fin




Use Symbols and Abbreviations

The use of symbols and abbreviations is useful for noin lectures, when speed is essential.

When you use symbols and abbreviations, develop ause commonly used or personal symbols and abbrevi

However, you also need to be familiar with the sy

abbreviations frequently used in your particular field o It’s important to be consistent when using sym

abbreviations so you will remember what they reprebe able to use them with ease.




Symbols= equals/ is equal to/ is the sameas

≠ is not equal to/ is not the same as

≡ is equivalent to

+ and, more, plus

> more than, greater than

< less than

— less, minus

→ gives, causes, leads toin/ from, is produced by

↑ rises, increases by

↓ falls, decreases by




Abbreviations

CommonMany are derived from Latin

◦ no. (numero) = number

◦ etc. (et cetera)= and so on

Discipline-Specific◦ ec. (et causa) = cau

◦ dex (dextra) = right

◦ sin (sinistra) = left

◦ OD (occular dextra)

eye◦ OS (occular sinistra eye




Use Concept Maps and Diagrams

You can also set down information in a conceor diagram. This presents the information in form and is unlike the traditional linear form taking. Information can be added to the concein any sequence.

Begin in the middle of the page and add idbranches that radiate from the central idea previous branches.





Arrows and words can be used to show links bparts of the concept map.

Color and symbols are important parts of maps, helping illustrate ideas and triggering yothoughts.




Visual Learners

Make use of charts and drawing that can bwhile studying traditional flash cards can within your notes or to make you able to vinformation and self-test yourself while ystudying.

Use anagrams or other visual types of informacan be used to learn the information at hand, ycreate tools that can be used to jog your methe case that you are not able to recall a specifof items or events.




Visual Learners

Visual learners can take advantage of learninlike graphs and charts – combined with in dedetailed notes that can be used to createlearning tools.




Auditory Learners

Use audio cues while studying and trying to leainformation use techniques like creating and songs that can be associated with information.

Make use of audio recorders to record the l

and notes that you are trying to remember. Yplay back these recordings through study perretain the information longer.




Auditory Learners

While learning new information, talk out loud form the words with your lips, while speakwords in your head to retain the information tbeen learned.




Tactile Kinesthetic Learners

Take part in projects and experiments to leinformation use this time to experience a hands-on or learning how to work something hacan help you to learn the information better the information that is learned through the se

and lectures. As well as writing the notes, use other approac

creating actual models and graphs of the infothat has been learned.





Use models to learn. Especially in subjescience, models can be easily used to learn.Example:

Memorizing the human body using an actuaof the human body to learn about the part, wh

are able to touch the body part/organs caneffective way to learn.





Avoid all distractions while you are studyinimportant to remember that even the smallest able to distract a tactile learner.

Therefore studying in a quiet area, with ndistractions.


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