Added July 20, 2023 at 9:10am by Paul Allison
Title: Evolving Notebook Practice

There was a lot to think about last nigh on TTT wihich starte with Marina describing a mulgtimodal and interdependent loging practice, and moving from there to Bob asking us to consider dispositions that we see as valuable in a dialogue notebook when we look at the move a user is taking. And his notion is that we might be able to create a Thinking Partner who identifies and nurtures these dispositions. Yes, and yes... and then Bob started pushing back against the fluffy-ness of turning text into images.Even after I pointed out that the Thinking Partner fiirst identifies three themes in a given text, creates an anology for these themes, then produces a paragraph for an image-to-text prompt. Still he wondered about the relative value of that as compared to what a thinking coach might do for a log-keeper. Granted, and also I want to leave this decision up to the log keeper. What if they don't want or need an intense life coach giving them wise suggestions? What if getting an image of what this is all about helps the log keeper to push to the next level of reflection? And most of all, I'm interested in how empowering it is for the log keeper to be able to choose their own dialogue practice with peers, teachers, and a variety of AI Thinking Partners. For me, that is what we are really making here.

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Added July 21, 2023 at 11:29am by Paul Allison
Title: David Cole shared this Science Notebook with me

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Added July 22, 2023 at 11:13am by Paul Allison
Title: Freewrite about Moffett:

If you could ask Moffett any two questions, what would you ask him?

What would you ask Moffett to explain ... (more to this prompt)...

Okay, so I don't know if this is really about Moffett or about my own obsesions or interests, but if I had one of my two quetions would be about how technology and the different tools we use now -- including AI -- would impact on his theories of discourse. A second questions, based on the Interaction series has different forks, one is whether or not he thinks we must change schools before we do the kinds of discourse curriculum that he proposed. In other words should we be working as much for school change as we do for curricular/pedagogical transformation? The other side of that is how much can we produce materials and guides and curriculum for teachers. I see a clear divide beteween Moffett's work with textbook publishers and the National Writing Project's teacher education....

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Added July 22, 2023 at 6:26pm by Paul Allison
Title: Technology and discourse

One of the things I have been thinking about is the discourse impact it might have on notebooks being digital, and in particular the dialectical format of NowComment documents. Can what is lost in the tactile experience of building a physical

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Added July 22, 2023 at 9:27pm by Paul Allison
Title: No small matter: Students and Teachers can create and modify templates from inside of AI Mojo

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Added July 23, 2023 at 10:19am by Paul Allison
Title: Perplexity AI I’m curious about the differences between interactive notebooks and digital notebooks.

Interactive Notebooks:
- Interactive notebooks are physical notebooks where students can engage in hands-on activities, take notes, and organize their thoughts[2].
- They help students synthesize their thoughts, take ownership of their learning, and accommodate multiple learning styles[2].
- Students can cut and glue parts into the notebook, creating a tangible representation of their learning[3].
- Interactive notebooks foster communication between teachers and families through weekly learning logs and discussion boards[2].

Digital Notebooks:
- Digital notebooks are the digital counterpart of interactive notebooks[4].
- They are paperless and can cover the same content and skills as traditional interactive notebooks[3].
- Digital notebooks offer the advantage of embedding or linking to different media such as videos, animations, hyperlinks, audio, and GIFs[3].
- They can be accessed anytime and anywhere, making them always available to both students and teachers[1].
- Digital notebooks allow for easier grading and can integrate various apps and online resources[1][6].

Differences between Interactive Notebooks and Digital Notebooks:
- Interactive notebooks are physical, while digital notebooks are electronic[3].
- Interactive notebooks involve cutting and gluing, while digital notebooks allow for embedding and linking to media[3].
- Digital notebooks offer the advantage of accessibility and easier grading[1].
- Interactive notebooks provide a tangible representation of learning, while digital notebooks offer the convenience of digital tools and resources[3][6].

In summary, interactive notebooks are physical notebooks that promote hands-on learning and organization, while digital notebooks are electronic versions that offer the advantages of accessibility and integration with digital media.

Citations:
[1] https://www.chalkboardcreations.com/8-reasons-digital-interactive-notebooks/
[2] https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/artifacts/7-reasons-to-use-interactive-notebooks
[3] https://www.twoboysandadad.com/2016/06/interactive-digital-notebooks-google-slides/
[4] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED592865.pdf
[5] https://www.maneuveringthemiddle.com/5-benefits-to-using-interactive-notebooks/
[6] https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-get-benefits-interactive-notebooks-digital-formats/

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Added July 23, 2023 at 2:16pm by Paul Allison
Title: Notebooks!

Okay it started as Dialogue Notetaking, then grew a bit more generalized and theoretical when we started referring to Dialectical Notes, and two-, three-, four-column notebooks. All a way of building out our thinking with different perspectives or ways of paying attention or wondering... or whatever. Recently we've been calling them AI Dialogue Notebooks because I wanted to emphasize how there might be a conversatioin with Thinking Partners on NowComment documents. And it is no small matter to reorient the way people think about social annotation or comments on NowComment to being about how we can give each other in-context responses to our own writing. In addition with links, images, and embedded video being a part of the mitmodal uploading and commenting on NowComment documents, this flow of multimodal notetaking and conversation is find a place in these notebooks. And all of this prompted me to take a look at the paractice of Interative Notebooks, a well developed tool for students to gather and chart their thinking, similar to the practice of portfolios. These notebooks are often tacticle, physical objects whrere things are pasted and glued. And then, there is all of the work Christina Cantrill and others did last year in investigting science and ranger and enviromentalist notebooks as part of the Write Out work. Digital Discourse is also on our minds and the issues of access and availability (both an advantge and a disadvantage) Oh...all fo the things we know about how being digial expands audience, invites images and videos and other multimodal embedding... and the way it becomes an accessible artivact that can be remixed... all of this an more.

So we have a Dialogue, Dialectical, Double-entry, AI Dialogue, Interactive, Multimodal, Write Out, Digital Notebook!

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