Irony at ISTE - Do Paper Notebooks Still Matter?

This summer I was very excited to attend the International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE)  in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ironically, one of the most memorable sessions I attended focused on the continuing relevance of paper notebooks in today's increasingly electronically connected classrooms. The Interactive Lecture was titled "Notebooks, Pens and Pixels: Tools of the Trade for Today’s Student Writers"  and was presented by Dr. Troy Hicks, Penny Kittle, and Kristen Ziemke. My favorite part of the lecture was Penny Kittle's discussion of how she uses notebooks as journals and sketchbooks to foster student responses to literature as well as enabling their own creative writing. Link to examples of this work here: Penny Kittle Notebook Work. Finally, I should add that, as this was a technology conference, the lecture did make the connection to publishing, blogging, and sharing in order create an audience, but that is a large topic on its own so I will leave it for later posts.

This picture is not related to the "Notebooks, Pens, and Pixels" lecture, but it is my favorite snapshot from the conference!

References

Hicks, T., Kittle, P., & Ziemke, K. (2015) Notebooks, Pens and Pixels: Tools of the Trade for Today’s Student Writers [Lecture]. International Society for Technology in Education Conference 2015.
Kittle, P. (2015). Notebook Work. Retrieved from http://pennykittle.net/index.php?page=notebook-work