When I was a kid, in the 1970's-80's, we had notebooks too. The "interactive" part was a given, since active learning is by definition interactive, so we could just call it "notebook" without appending jargony prefixes. We also had this brilliant invention known as the snap-ring binder, making it possible to insert items neatly, instead of gluing a bunch of shit together like a cheezy scrapbook. There was no need to overload the binding of a 50 page booklet by stuffing 150 sheets of paper into it. Organizational skills were very much a thing then, with teachers periodically checking our notebooks for order and completeness. Visual learning was also a major thing, except that our illustrations actually elucidated the concept meaningfully. The Triangular Trade, for example, was depicted as three vectors on a map, you know, the way the items actually moved. Just stuffing little phrases into the shape of a triangle isn't visual learning, it's a gimmick. Same with that retarded-ass "powder keg" - it adds exactly zero to the understanding of how those factors led up to World War II. Until you _map_ the info meaningfully, as in depict how those forces and international tensions connected (hierarchally, geographically, etc), you've only _decorated_ _around_ the objective, while doing fuck-all toward visualizing anything useful.
hi i like the way to discuss bit by bit the activities can be use in the interactive notebook.. i really wanted to try this learning tool..hope to get help from you...thanks
When I was a kid, in the 1970's-80's, we had notebooks too. The "interactive" part was a given, since active learning is by definition interactive, so we could just call it "notebook" without appending jargony prefixes. We also had this brilliant invention known as the snap-ring binder, making it possible to insert items neatly, instead of gluing a bunch of shit together like a cheezy scrapbook. There was no need to overload the binding of a 50 page booklet by stuffing 150 sheets of paper into it. Organizational skills were very much a thing then, with teachers periodically checking our notebooks for order and completeness.
Visual learning was also a major thing, except that our illustrations actually elucidated the concept meaningfully. The Triangular Trade, for example, was depicted as three vectors on a map, you know, the way the items actually moved. Just stuffing little phrases into the shape of a triangle isn't visual learning, it's a gimmick. Same with that retarded-ass "powder keg" - it adds exactly zero to the understanding of how those factors led up to World War II. Until you _map_ the info meaningfully, as in depict how those forces and international tensions connected (hierarchally, geographically, etc), you've only _decorated_ _around_ the objective, while doing fuck-all toward visualizing anything useful.
Well done! Thank you for the ideas.
hi i like the way to discuss bit by bit the activities can be use in the interactive notebook.. i really wanted to try this learning tool..hope to get help from you...thanks
Where do you find the foldable templates? Thank you.
I was looking for a video to inspire teachers to try interactive notebooks. I love your content and video except the music is overpowering.