Notes and memory
For the last few weeks, I have been running sessions for Year 12 on memory and note-taking. It's been interesting to hear the students explain just how many of their teachers insist that notes are taken whilst assuming the students know how to take notes. One or two pointed out something that is eminently sensible; it is hard to understand a new concept that it being explained whilst also trying to make notes.
There are quite a few videos on YouTube that suggest notes on complex matters should be made once the discussion/lecture/lesson is over. That way, a student can listen to what it being said, pause then process things, before making more considered notes. This would seem to apply to reading too. Students, it is suggested, should simply read along/listen and then, once the passage in question is over, go back, highlight and make notes. That way, they follow the narrative's twists and turns and make notes with a better grasp of the bigger picture.