Meet Mike Tholfsen (@mtholfsen)

• Mike Tholfsen is a Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Education team focusing on OneNote Class and Staff Notebooks, Learning Tools and Microsoft Teams. He is a 22 year veteran at Microsoft and passionate about education.
• Mike has been regularly working with students and teachers around the world over the past decade to create products that improve student outcomes.

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OneNote Class Notebooks helps teachers capture and organize class content, create and deliver interactive lessons, provide feedback, and collaborate. Teachers can create...

• a personal workspace for every student,
• a content library for handouts, and
• a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities.

In 2018, twenty-five million student notebooks were created!

What are Learning Styles?

These can be defined as the way in which each individual learner

• begins to concentrate on,
• processes,
• absorbs, and
• retains new and difficult information (Source).

Research suggesting learning styles have been debunked.

OneNote Relevant Items

Psychological elements – information processing:

· Analytic Processing vs. Global Processing: Analytic learners prefer information presented step by step in logical sequences leading up to the whole concept. Global learners need to start with a preliminary overview of the whole concept in order to understand the details. Learners capable of using both ways are referred to as integrated.

Perceptual elements:

· Auditory: Auditory learners learn best by listening.

· Visual: Visual learners prefer learning through pictures and graphics of all kinds (visual picture) and / or through reading (visual text).

· Tactile: Tactile learners must involve their fine motor skills in their learning processes.

· Kinesthetic: Kinesthetic learners must use their whole bodies and / or themselves as persons in their learning processes (e.g. in cases or role plays).

· Verbalizing: Verbalizing learners need to talk (to others or to themselves) during the learning process.

OneNote's Learning Tools (free) works in a variety of situations.

Learning Tools: 13,000,000 people round the globe regularly use Learning Tools to help them achieve more in school and at home. As part of Learning Tools, Immersive Reader implements proven techniques to improve reading for learners regardless of their age or ability.

• Parts of Speech symbols: Teachers and students have the option to enable symbols for nouns, verbs, and adjectives over the highlighted part of speech. This is especially useful for readers who are color blind.
• Adverbs: The Immersive Reader has had the ability to highlight important parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We listened to valuable feedback from teachers that adverbs are also an important part of speech that should be highlighted and now adverbs are available in over 10 languages.

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Real Life examples of OneNote Class Notebooks

• OneNote Toolkit for Teachers
• Immersive Reader OneNote Language Samples
• Examples from students, teachers & schools
• Class Notebook Samples
• Staff Notebook Samples
• Minecraft Lesson Notebook
• Mystery Skype Curriculum Notebook