{"data":{"ID":664,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477959810,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A Modern Commonplace Book","Handle":"a_moder_commonplace_book","ShortDescription":"For hundreds of years thinkers used commonplace books to collect knowledge. People recorded ideas along with their own commentary. How can we think about digital tools as contemporary commonplace books? How might we encourage students not just to collect but to comment, come back to, and use their collections?","Description":"We will share ways that we are engaging students in this type of collecting and commenting. One set of examples comes from Art classes where students are using Pinterest to collect images that are used in preparation for class projects. Student Pin Boards demonstrate learning in comments connected to in-class learning. Students build their own image libraries, building toward an Independent Study project. One student pointed out, this is \u201calmost like the new version of Art Museums\u201d.\r\n \r\nAnother example comes from an English class where students have a choice a few tools to use in their collection of passages from a large novel. In this example, students were asked to make this a two step process--noting in a book, and then pulling some of that into a commonplace book with personal commentary. Students then have this to look back on as they think about writing an essay on a topic of their choosing. Their compiled information will create a history of their thinking and interests.\r\n\r\nBoth examples help the teacher to personalize her conversation and interaction with the student and his or her ideas and interests.\r\n\r\nThese examples also draw inspiration from and speak to Ann Hamilton\u2019s exhibit habitus at the Fabric Workshop earlier in the year.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will share our examples and student work. In addition, we would like to open this discussion up to how we support careful looking\/noticing of ideas and  student interest. In addition, we would like to have a conversation about other ideas for this work as well as other tools that people may have used. Another topic for discussion may be how to keep the focus on the learning and habits of mind that we are aiming to instill, rather than the tools.","Presenter":["Wendy Eiteljorg","Tania O'Donnell"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Shipley School"],"PresenterEmail":["weiteljorg@shipleyschool.org","todonnell@shipleyschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":76,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}}