An Underutilized and Proven Tactic to Improve Learning

Old-fashioned note-taking works!

If you are in the instructional design consulting business, you are fully invested in seeing participants absorb and apply the key workshop lessons on the job in a way that makes sense for them and their team. In many instances, participants need to both learn and remember content, approaches, skills and processes to improve in a specific area. In addition to consistent practice and feedback, one way to ensure the adoption of training material is to encourage class participants to take their own notes and to create their own content and job aids as part of your instructional design.

Here is why note-taking and audience content creation is effective in the learning game:

1. Ownership.  Information is transformed into the note-taker’s own words. Not only have students had to grasp the point, they have had to work it into their own vocabulary. This requires focus.
2. Reflection.  Notes are a way to review the most relevant material. Rather than repeat the class or reread the book, students can review what mattered most through a quick review.
3. Targeted.  Notes are personal reminders. Workshop participants can recall key facts and what they found most unusual or interesting. By reading their own interpretation of what mattered most or what most intrigued them, they will be able to connect to more of the information that was delivered. Notes jog the memory.

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