reflection #8

This week we started reading Robert Marzano's Book called "Classroom Instruction that Works."  I found it really useful on how to summarize effectively.  The main points were to delete some information, substitute some information, and keep some information.  These things come naturally to us.  It was helpful when we did this together as a class and I believe that it is a good teaching strategy to use in any class, even a technology class.  This is because we should be able to double teach as technology teachers.  To really understand a passage, we need to find the key points and get rid of unnecessary and redundant information.  We should not just teach our students how to summarize but we need to teach them why being a good summarizer and note taker is beneficial.  I thought it was interesting when Marizano says that verbatim note taking is, perhaps, the least effective way to take notes.  There are so many different ways to taking notes and it just depends on the individual and what the best way for them to remember things is.