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E Ink tablets: The perfect blend of paper and digital, or an overpriced niche gadget? Engadget just reviewed the best E Ink tablets for 2026, highlighting their evolving features but also noting significant price hikes from reMarkable & others. Are you ready to pay more for that distraction-free digital paper experience? Let's debate!
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-e-ink-tablet-130037939.html?src=rss
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The best E Ink tablets for 2026

The best tablets for reading and writing to your heart's content.

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Mark Grabe Jul 23, 2025

Building Better Note-Taking Skills in Elementary and Middle School Students: Research-Backed Strategies for Educators
Note-taking is a foundational skill that supports comprehension, retention, and critical thinking. However, many students below high school age struggle to develop effective no
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/07/23/building-better-note-taking-skills-in-elementary-and-middle-school-students-research-backed-strategies-for-educators/
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Building Better Note-Taking Skills in Elementary and Middle School Students: Research-Backed Strategies for Educators

Note-taking is a foundational skill that supports comprehension, retention, and critical thinking. However, many students below high school age struggle to develop effective note-taking habits on t…

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Mark Grabe Jun 14, 2025

NotebookLM Fully Loaded
Google recently offered NotebookLM users an exciting opportunity. Personal Notebooks can now be shared with others. The shared version is read-only, so the curator need not worry that unknown individuals could modify the existing work. Collaborative use of such a tool would represent a different opportunity.

I have written multiple posts focused on note-taking, collab
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/06/14/notebooklm-fully-loaded/
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NotebookLM Fully Loaded

Google recently offered NotebookLM users an exciting opportunity. Personal Notebooks can now be shared with others. The shared version is read-only, so the curator need not worry that unknown …

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Mark Grabe May 5, 2025

Highlighting in the age of digital content
I have highlighted much of what I read for probably 50 years. I started in college, and I tried different approaches, sometimes highlighting with different colors. My preference was the slim highlighter in yellow. When I began reading using my phone, iPad, and Kindle, I learned how to highlig
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/05/05/highlighting-in-the-age-of-digital-content/
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Highlighting in the age of digital content

I have highlighted much of what I read for probably 50 years. I started in college, and I tried different approaches, sometimes highlighting with different colors. My preference was the slim highli…

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PSDI May 5, 2025

Presentation by Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza on "I can’t record it for you, but I can provide you with a Digital Notebook — The daring journey of the pre-requisites and hurdles of Digital Notetaking" for the Fellowship of the Data 2025 Meeting. This presentation discussed the challenges and implementation considerations for implementing digital notebooks. Access the presentation here ➡️ https://zenodo.org/records/15311863

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I can't record it for you, but I can provide you with a Digital Notebook — The daring journey of the pre-requisites and hurdles of Digital Notetaking

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Mark Grabe Mar 20, 2025

Technology and the Writing Process
This post assumes you understand the basics of what is referred to as the “writing process” and perhaps have read my previous post explaining what the writing process is and why it is valuable to educators and researchers. One additional role I proposed in that post was that the components of the writing process would be helpful in
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/03/20/technology-and-the-writing-process/
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Technology and the Writing Process

This post assumes you understand the basics of what is referred to as the “writing process” and perhaps have read my previous post explaining what the writing process is and why it is valuable to e…

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Mark Grabe Mar 8, 2025

Linear narrative chains
I have become fascinated with what I now call linear narrative chains (Hays and colleagues, 2008). The phrase is appropriately descriptive in how we experience life including reading and listening to lectures and explains why reprocessing such inputs is important to understanding and learning. What the phrase indicates is that inputs come at us as a s
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/03/08/linear-narrative-chains/
#AIEducation #DigitalNotes #GenerativeLearning

Linear narrative chains

I have become fascinated with what I now call linear narrative chains (Hays and colleagues, 2008). The phrase is appropriately descriptive in how we experience life including reading and listening …

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Mark Grabe Feb 24, 2025

Notes and the Translation Process
I recently read a research article (Cohen and colleagues, 2013) about students notetaking in college lectures that included interesting observations about the challenges students face. First, information comes at students quickly and to decide what to record and then manually recording what is selected is very demanding preventing little more t
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/02/24/notes-and-the-translation-process/
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Notes and the Translation Process

I recently read a research article (Cohen and colleagues, 2013) about students notetaking in college lectures that included interesting observations about the challenges students face. First, infor…

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Mark Grabe Feb 12, 2025

AI in Readwise
How do most Readwise users use the service? Is it the central location in which you suck in the notes and highlights from the multiple tools you use to read the multiple categories of content you consume to review and work with that content or is it a relay station between these sources and the tools you use to store, organize, expand on, and apply this content? I can
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/02/12/ai-in-readwise/
#AIEducation #DigitalNotes #AI #notes #Readwise

AI in Readwise

How do most Readwise users use the service? Is it the central location in which you suck in the notes and highlights from the multiple tools you use to read the multiple categories of content…

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Mark Grabe Feb 1, 2025

The Space Between Encountering Information and Application
One way to characterize Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is to suggest it involves the analysis of actual and potential tactics applied between encountering information and application. I came to this topic with a background in the development and evaluation of technology tools f
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2025/02/01/the-space-between-encountering-information-and-application/
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The Space Between Encountering Information and Application

One way to characterize Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is to suggest it involves the analysis of actual and potential tactics applied between encountering information and application. I came t…

Learning Aloud