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Sketchnotes

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Ways you can access these slides

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What are sketchnotes?

  • Visual notes
    • Lettering/fonts
    • Connectors/lines/arrows/dividers
    • Bullets
    • Containers/frames
    • Images/symbols/diagrams

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  • Strategy to bridge reading a text and writing about or discussing it
    • Sketchnotes = the process
    • The discussion and/or microtheme that follows = the product

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Why use sketchnotes?

  • Create meaning of text
  • Make thinking visible
  • Draw connections between ideas
  • Organize thinking
  • Determine key ideas and concepts
  • Keep students engaged!

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What the research says...

  • “Adding drawings to notes to represent concepts, terms, and relationships has a significant effect on memory and learning” (Wammes, Meade, & Fernandes, 2016).
  • “Getting trained in specific note-taking strategies can significantly improve the quality of notes and the amount of material they remember later…This is especially true for students with learning disabilities” (Boyle, 2013).
  • “The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text, and 90 percent of information transmitted to the brain is visual” (Vogel, Dickson, Lehman, 1986).

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Structured sketchnotes with specific guidelines/ requirements

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Examples: English 9 Independent Reading

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Examples: Contemporary Lit. Poetry

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Examples: English 9 Rhetorical Analysis

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Sketchnotes with a general focus

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Examples: Contemporary Lit. Born a Crime

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Examples: English 9 Honors Romeo & Juliet Act 4 Notes

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Examples: Contemporary Lit. The Hero’s Journey

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Totally open-ended sketchnotes

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Examples: Sophomore Theology, Prot. Reformation

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Examples: Senior Theology, Consumerism

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Examples: Contemporary Lit. The Kite Runner

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Examples: Contemporary Lit. Revisionist History Podcast

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Examples: Contemporary Lit. Reliable Sources Podcast

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Examples: Short Stories Pets, Pests, & Food Podcast

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Examples: Student’s Notes

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How to use sketchnotes

  • Do your own sketchnotes over the text
  • Consider your objectives & determine your guidelines
    • Specific requirements
    • A general focus
    • Total autonomy
  • Introduce sketchnoting & set purpose
  • Provide scaffolding
    • Something to focus on
    • Some frames/images/icons to get started
  • Use completed sketchnotes in discussion and/or writing
  • Display exemplary work as models

Resource

Sketchnote Student Reference Sheets

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Our Sketchnotes

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Try sketchnotes

Cult of Pedagogy

  1. Choose your supplies
  2. Start sketchnoting

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” -John Wooden

Dogfooding: How Often Do You Do Your Own Assignments?

It’s about the ideas, not the art.

PURPOSE: Identify the author’s main ideas about dogfooding.

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How can you use sketchnotes in your courses?

Discuss with your group:

  • Share your sketchnotes.
  • How did sketchnoting go for you? (pros/cons)
  • How do you or could you use sketchnotes in your courses?
  • What challenges have you experienced or do you anticipate?

Resources for texts:

  • TED Talks
  • Podcasts
  • Newsela
  • Common Lit.
  • Readworks
  • Tween Tribune
  • Reading materials, documents, film clips, etc. that you already use in your courses

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To do

Need help? Have questions? Want to talk through how to implement sketchnotes in your courses? Email us!

  • Implement sketchnotes in one of your courses.
  • Bring student work to share and discuss with your department on March 2.
  • Be prepared to discuss as a whole staff on March 9.