note-taking

10 Ways to Be a Better Learner: No. 4 – Be An Active Note Taker

June 20, 2011

I’m finally getting back to my series on ways to be a better learner. In case you missed the first three, you can find them at: 10 Ways to Be a Better Learner: No. 1 – Growth Mindset 10 Ways to Be a Better Learner: No. 2 – Cultivate Your Network 10 Ways to Be [...]

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Collaborating to Learn with Popplet

February 25, 2011

I’ve decided to focus on note-taking for the next post in my “10 Ways to Be a Better Learner Series,” and in the process of digging into the topic more, I came across Popplet, a tool described in a Media Commons Project post as an “application for individually or collaboratively “curating,” or spatializing the relationships [...]

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7 Secrets of Childlike Learning

October 27, 2010

This is a guest post from Kimberly Bowen. Children are new to the learning process. They constantly see and experience things for the first time. They pause to listen to noises, try things over again until they master it, observe language until they can speak it and ask if they don’t know what something means. [...]

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How Do You Read A Book?

March 23, 2010

I had the chance recently to get away for a long weekend on the North Carolina coast. As always, one of the main attractions of this short break from the rat race was the opportunity to read. In a quiet, pleasant setting. For extended periods of time. This doesn’t happen nearly so often as I [...]

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10 Personal Favorites from the M2L Archives

January 5, 2010

Not too long ago I published the all-time top 10 posts on Mission to Learn based on the number of page views those posts have received. Getting a lot of page views is great – it means a lot of people are visiting the site – but the posts that are the most popular aren’t [...]

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