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Develop Your Students' Focused Note-Taking Skills

Poor class performance is not always an indicator of intelligence. Some students are simply better at school than others and have learned how to be successful in this environment. One way to empower all of our students is to teach them how to be better students. Specifically, we can teach them how to study and learn. These skills will not only empower them as students but will also provide them with transferable skills that they can use throughout their adult lives.

This collection explores the process, strategies, and tools for one of those core learning skills: digital focused note-taking.

Establish an Engaging and Sustained Digital Focused Note-Taking Process

Help students develop digital note-taking skills through the implementation of an engaging and sustained process.

Best Practices 15 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

Integrate Digital Focused Note-Taking Strategies and Tools

Empower your students with digital strategies and tools for each of the five parts of the focused note-taking process.

Best Practices 25 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

Digital Templates

Quickly find the digital templates referenced in articles throughout AVID Open Access in one location.

Instructional Resources Grades K-12 Resource by:

Digital Note-taking: Going Beyond Paper

Learn digital note-taking strategies with this introductory video to AVID Open Access resources.

Video Podcast 15 min

#127 – 7 Tips for Effective Digital Note-Taking

Review seven ways that students can take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital tools when taking and processing notes.

Tech Talk For Teachers 9 min Resource by:

Ed Tip: Digital Notes and Annotations

Explore a list of digital annotation and note-taking tools that can support students with recording their ideas, regardless of what media format they’re using.

Ed Tips 3 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Weave the Information Together: Step 4 of the Searching for ANSWERS Inquiry Process

Learn how to help students apply critical thinking, note-taking, and organizational skills as they weave information together during the fourth step in the ANSWERS inquiry process.

Best Practices 18 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

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