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Why drawings?
Why drawings?
Asking students to depict a concept through drawing can increase their ability to remember the concept because drawing engages students visually, linguistically, and kinesthetically.
Students of all ages can benefit from drawing concepts. Drawing skill is not important. What is important is the creativity involved in transforming a concept into an image. Students who draw metaphors to represent concepts engage in abstraction which reflects their ability to synthesize information.
Drawings can be done digitally or with traditional physical materials.
Teachers and students who find drawings to be an effective means for exercising higher order thinking, creativity, and recall may want to investigate sketchnoting.
You might assign a drawing when...
you want students to demonstrate their understanding of a concept or event.
you want students to create learning materials for themselves and others.
you want students to practice creative and abstract thinking.
you want to enhance or replace an assignment that asks students to write to describe/demonstrate their learning.
Examples
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