I really love your Thought Box idea! Mine is the Google Keep version of this in which random things get copied/pasted and/or screenshotted and then I have to go on a digital treasure hunt to find them. I really *want* to have an analog version but so far that has not been very successful. But, I think the having a place to put things is maybe the key, and allowing the different things you’re reading and thinking about to sort of have their own conversations in the background. That sort of thing takes time, and I think the intention of noticing them in the first place allows the necessary idea cross talk to happen :)
I think the Google Keep version is great -- anything that formalizes the collection process, and, like you said, gets those background conversations going. We'll see how successful the Thought Box is in the end -- it has already been pillaged once by the children, who were told that it's mine and they'll have to make their own if they want to rearrange things
I really love your Thought Box idea! Mine is the Google Keep version of this in which random things get copied/pasted and/or screenshotted and then I have to go on a digital treasure hunt to find them. I really *want* to have an analog version but so far that has not been very successful. But, I think the having a place to put things is maybe the key, and allowing the different things you’re reading and thinking about to sort of have their own conversations in the background. That sort of thing takes time, and I think the intention of noticing them in the first place allows the necessary idea cross talk to happen :)
I think the Google Keep version is great -- anything that formalizes the collection process, and, like you said, gets those background conversations going. We'll see how successful the Thought Box is in the end -- it has already been pillaged once by the children, who were told that it's mine and they'll have to make their own if they want to rearrange things