Charlotte Manly wrote:
> TIPSters,
>
> Do any of you distribute your lecture notes to students (in advance)? I am going to
>experiment with doing so for my graduate stats class. I will email them the notes to
>print out, so they'll also be able to add space for their own notes. At the end of
>the week I'll get feedback to find out if this approach introduces any major
>disadvantages. Two I can think of are that I might go too fast or that students
>might reduce all note-taking (and the accompanying thinking) because they think my
>notes are sufficient. Have you encountered other disadvantages I should watch out
>for?
>
> For what it's worth, my notes are in expanded outline form, so there's a lot of
>detail I don't write down (e.g. computational steps, details of a conceptual
>explanation).
>
>
For the last couple of years I have tried a variation on this that I like and
students report that they like. I give out lecture outlines, but I leave blanks in
several places. I usually try to make the blanks be for terms, etc., that are really
important to remember. Students then have to pay attention to find the word(s) that
are missing from their outlines. It seems to me (no data, just my impression) that
this has been a good change in classroom practice, because students are freed up from
being stenographers and can pay more attention. I encourage them to write in on
the printed outlines not only the missing words but also the examples I give, their
own examples, elaborations, etc., and I think many of them do. I had wondered, the
first semester I tried this, if it would result in reduced attendance, but it does not
seem to have had that effect.
Retta
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