Raw Notes
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Digital Note-Taking Tools
""Digital Note-Taking Tools"" explores how digital applications like Evernote and Notion can revolutionize learning and knowledge management in an age of information overload. The book argues that the effectiveness of these tools relies on strategic integration with personal workflows and alignment with cognitive science principles. For example, integrating multimedia elements into notes can significantly enhance retention, and employing search capabilities allows for quick retrieval of information, addressing the challenges posed by the increasing volume and variety of data encountered daily. The book provides a comparative analysis of popular platforms, evaluating features like organization, search, and collaboration capabilities. It also explores effective note-taking strategies such as the Cornell method, Zettelkasten, and mind mapping, demonstrating how these can be enhanced within digital environments. By integrating business management principles with information technology and educational psychology, the book offers a holistic view of digital note-taking. Structured to guide readers progressively, the book begins with core concepts and a historical overview, moving into comparative analyses and strategy implementation. It culminates with practical applications and case studies across diverse fields, making it a valuable resource for students, professionals, and educators seeking to optimize their learning and productivity.
Distant Early Warning
Author: Alex Kitnick
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2021-07-13
"In Distant Early Warning, Alex Kitnick reveals the story of Marshall McLuhan's entanglement with the art and artists of the twentieth-century avant-garde. It is a story packed with big names: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Tom Wolfe, Harold Rosenberg, Max Kozloff, and more. Kitnick, though, is not focused on celebrity, instead he carefully forges connections between McLuhan, his theories, and the artists of his time with thorough research and superb use of McLuhan's own words. McLuhan's writings on media spread quickly and his provocations about what art should be and what artists should be responsible for fueled then current debates. McLuhan observed that artists are first to act in response to change, and he believed they should be the ones to which we entrust new media and technologies. Thus Rauschenberg's desire to connect with culture through things is met with McLuhan's faith in artists as bellwethers of the networked world. In his postscript, Kitnick overlays McLuhan's faith onto the state of contemporary and post-internet art. This final channeling of McLuhan is a swift and beautiful analysis, with a personal touch, of art's recent transgressions and what its future may hold"--
Living the Questions
Teacher research is an extension of good teaching, observing students closely, analyzing their needs, and adjusting the curriculum to fit the needs of all. In this completely updated second edition of their definitive work, Ruth Shagoury and Brenda Miller Power present a framework for teacher research along with an extensive collection of narratives from teachers engaged in the process of designing and carrying out research projects to inform their instruction. This edition includes a greater variety of short contributions from a wide range of teacher-researchers -- novices and veterans from all backgrounds and parts of the country -- who speak to the growing diversity in today's classrooms. Threaded throughout the chapters and narratives is a discussion of the emergence of digital tools and their effect on both teaching and the research process, along with an expanded number of research designs. The book has three primary components: 1.Chapters written by the authors explaining key elements of the research process: finding questions, designing projects, data collection and analysis, and more 2.Research activities that enable readers to try out the featured strategies and techniques 3.Teacher-researcher essays in which teachers share details of completed projects and discuss the impact they have had in their classrooms. Living the Questions, Second Edition: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers will take you step-by-step through the process of designing, implementing, and publishing your research. Along the way, it will introduce you to dozens of kindred spirits who are finding new passion for teaching by "living the questions" every day in their classrooms. You will be reminded of why you became a teacher yourself.