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Taking Verbal to Visual
Taking Verbal to Visual
Sketchnotes are a rich visual notetaking strategy students use while listening, reading text, or watching video clips.
Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression
Sketchnotes don't require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text.
Why use sketchnotes in the classroom?
Why use sketchnotes in the classroom?
There’s a theory from neuroscience called dual coding that argues for the value of sketchnoting. Dual coding is the idea that we process incoming information through two channels, one verbal and one visual. When we activate both channels at once, so that they’re working together, we’re better able to understand and remember ideas. When a student comes up with a visual way to represent a new idea, often through some doodle or diagram, she is practicing dual coding. Van Meter and Garner (2005) point to the value of putting pen to paper with these visual representations: “The external drawing is the learner’s attempt to depict on paper the image experienced internally.”
> sketchnotes promote active processing of information
> sketchnotes foster a useful balance of main ideas and details
> sketchnotes help students develop more robust knowledge organizations
> sketchnotes aid understanding and recall through dual coding.
How do you use sketchnotes in the classroom?
How do you use sketchnotes in the classroom?
Sketchnotes can replace regular note taking at anytime you would normally assign notes.
- sketchnote a section of scientific text or science article
- sketchnote a short video
- sketchnote procedures/steps of a lab activity prior to conducting the lab
- sketchnote an answer to an "essential question" or "driving question" (metacognition)
SKETCHNOTE RESOURCES:
SKETCHNOTE RESOURCES:
Visual Note-Taking for Educators by Wendi Pillars
The Sketchnote Handbook by Mike Rhode
Verbal to Visual (Doug Neil) - links to short videos and a complete resources kit for educators ($49).
Sketchnote templates - 5 different templates to scaffold sketchnoting for your students
Sketchnote student examples: 2nd-grade 3rd-grade Middle School
Videos to introduce sketchnoting to your students: The Basics Students+Sketchnotes Cornell Notes with Sketchnoting Techniques
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