During presentations, lectures, movies, family discussions, etc. I highly encourage the power and value of sketch notes for students! Here’s an article with some notes on sketch notes aka visual notes by Katrina Scwartz titled “Why Teachers Are So Excited About the Power of Sketchnoting”. Shout out to the experience in New Tech at Orlando 2019 and the Sketch Effect crew!

Give students choices on how to engage in the visual notes process as Rayna Freedman demonstrates in this article…whiteboard, digital tablet, paper, pencils…“the point is to give them dedicated time to familiarize themselves with how they might express themselves visually.”

“Freedman has come to see sketchnoting as a bridge between early elementary, when students necessarily think visually because they are still learning to read, and middle school, where suddenly all visual thinking seems to stop.”

An important tool for working the hippocampus, turning experiences into long term memories!

“She’s also found that allowing students to sketchnote an outline or first draft of a writing assignment can dramatically improve the quality of the thinking and writing she receives.”

Sketchnoting is a great technique for brainstorming and organizing thoughts to write!

Understanding visual mnemonics…the treatment of words as images…

“It’s not about creating a piece of art. It’s about creating a piece of thinking.” Kim Zajac

“Sketch note the way your brain works!” – Carrie Baughcum…she wrote the text My Pencil Made Me Do It, A Guide to Sketchnoting which you can purchase here Amazon “visual thinking”…”doodling to learn”…the process not the product! Reminds me of what I learned at a presentation on Cornel Notes with Patrick Briggs from AVID!

“Sketchnoting has changed what she expects from her students. But she acknowledges that using this practice in class is a marathon, not a race.”

 

Schwartz, Katrina. “Why Teachers Are So Excited about the Power of Sketchnoting.” kqed.org, KQED MindShift, 3 Nov. 2019, www.kqed.org/mindshift/54655/why-teachers-are-so-excited-about-the-power-of-sketchnoting.