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This activity was inspired by John Bean's excellent work Engaging Ideas. The summary/response notebook, kept on paper or online in something like a spreadsheet, can energize the writing process and help you prepare for class discussions. Here's how:
Why?
Highlighters make a book yellow.
Margin notes work better, but would you be able to find that one key passage later, as you flip through a paper copy?
Goal? Metacognition (thinking about your own thinking)
E-books collate notes nicely, and searching for key terms is magic, but the time on-screen tends to distract a reader, speed up the process instead of leading to reflection.
This notebook slows you down, making you question your assumptions about a text and admiting "what you still need to know."
How?
Using a paper notebook for our example, I put a column on the left with page numbers and a brief summary, then a second column with "response" next to it. Here I summarize the ideas from the text in my own words.
Finally I include a column with my questions.
Below I'm responding to Ethan Mollick's book on generative AI, Co-Intelligence, for my graduate class "Writing With And About AI."
Forgive my handwriting. It got better (well, I think so!) when I switched to my favorite blue Pilot Gel pen. My black pen kept smearing!
Page/ Summary
100-Good example of how an AI connects ideas when prompted. Mollick calls them "connection machines" and my term is "synthesis engines."
105- "AI tends to pick similar ideas" when innovating.
Response / Ideas
(Let's try an) Early experience in class to repeat Mollick's experiment in connecting ideas.
Try the AUT test (p 101?) Marketing slogans? (p 108-09).
Questions
Have students learned enough already to do prompt-engineering?
Can we make this specific to where they work? Which AIs to use?
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