Sketch-Noting

Instead of writing notes for a class period, encourage your students to take notes by drawing small pictures depicting the class material to help students distill the concepts.

Detail of undergraduate student Jackson Mitchell’s interior design sketches in a Lamar Dodd School of Art studio.
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Additional Resources

Treptow, J. M. (2020). Sketchnoting as a Reading Strategy: Effects on Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Comprehension in a High School English Class (Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University): https://www.proquest.com/docview/2408552001?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses

Gansemer-Topf, A. M., Paepcke-Hjeltness, V., Russell, A. E., & Schiltz, J. (2021). “Drawing” your Own Conclusions: Sketchnoting as a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Ecology. Innovative Higher Education, 46, 303-319: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-020-09542-6

Bratash, V. S., Riekhakaynen, E. I., & Petrova, T. E. (2020). Сreating and processing sketchnotes: a psycholinguistic study. Procedia Computer Science, 176, 2930-2939: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050920321128

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