To move forward we must learn and retain some things along the way.
The Learning Journal / Worksheet
How do you remember what you read? How do you learn? Personally, I must have highlighters, paper, pencils and pens near me while I am reading. My brain gets this warm, fuzzy feeling when I write notes about what I read. I'll write in the book, on a piece of paper that might eventually get tossed or in a notebook. What if you had a way to organize your thoughts on a piece of paper? What if this worksheet were to guide your learning experience?
Tim Milburn has designed and created such a worksheet. In Project # 1 at Joyful Jubilant Learning, Tim provides a free download and explains each section of the worksheet.
I've lived in a left brained world for the first forty years of my life. Very organized, very detail oriented. So when I saw Tim's work, the rigid and structured brain cells hanging out in the left brain part of my head almost did a jig! Almost did a jig, left brain cells don't do dance. But, at least I was trying to imagine this jig going on inside my head when WHAM!!!!, I feel this train barrel into my brain from the other side. Right Brain Train. Outta control.
What If?
What if I were to create a design-type notebook incorporating Tim's Learning Journal worksheet? Lets say the goal is to try and learn something about a subject. Paste pictures and photographs in your notebook that remind you of your subject.
Your right brain is playing and creating this part so nothing here needs to make perfect logical sense. Feel free to draw, sketch and color stuff around your pasted material. Now, weave the Learning Journal worksheets into your notebook. The material on your worksheets follow whatever it is that you are trying to learn. It could be notes taken from a class, from a chapter out of a textbook, from an Internet based program or from a DVD.
The idea here is to introduce each side of the brain to each other and then let them work together to learn something.
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