This is a presentation and conversation with Professor Wess Daniels and a group of professors, college staff, and undergraduate students from the 6 classes that have learned Progressive Summarization at Guilford College in North Carolina.
It includes a slide presentation with key themes and learnings from their experience, a live demonstration of performing progressive summarization collaboratively in real time, and at the end a discussion of how and why digital note-taking should be taught as an essential skill for students.
The main points include:
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The benefits of adapting Progressive Summarization to the classroom
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Creating a life-long knowledge bank for use far beyond the classroom
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Starting the class by showing students how to take notes, instead of just reviewing the syllabus
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How to organize class notes using Google Docs
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Guidelines for source citations and naming conventions
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Using “12 favorite problems” to guide learning and class discussions
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Designing notes to more deeply interact with the content and enable “glanceability”
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Balancing context and compression in class notes
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A Progressive Summarization checklist for students
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Best practices and recommendations from student’s experiences
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Teacher-student feedback using Google Docs
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Details of Professor Daniels’ experience teaching P.S. to 6 cohorts of undergraduate students
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Live demonstration of real-time collaborative progressive summarization and annotation
Here are some online resources on using Progressive Summarization in the classroom generously provided by Prof. Daniels:
- Webpage summarizing the use of Progressive Summarization at Guilford
- Slides used in the presentation
- Shared Google Doc used in the demo
- Student guide to Creating Reading Notes Using Progressive Summarization
- Progressive Summarization checklist
- Link to Guilford College homepage
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