Going to try something a little different today. Going to read a book. Hey, wait; that’s not the different thing! No, I’m going to take a few notes as I go – something I regularly do when reading a text to which I might wish to refer as part of my Masters studies. Here’s the ‘but’ though; whereas I would normally make those notes in Zotero, which is the application I use for recording citations/references, today I’m going to use Twitter. The book is Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
I guess the first question is ‘why would you want to do that?’ Well as far as I’m aware, it’s not something that’s been tried before . . . at least not for a whole book (I’m going to try to read the whole book today) . . . and I do like to explore different things. By using a hashtag (#hhjc21), I can retrieve all the notes later and maybe, just maybe, there might be a comment or two from the good folks of Twitter who might have a question or comment or two. So there’s a chance at least, that my understanding of what I’m reading could be reshaped by the observations of others . . . and that’s not something you’re likely to get if reading in isolation.
It should be an interesting experience if nothing else and perhaps worthy of a full blog post subsequently – I’ll let you know how it goes.
Practically In the pICTure 