Rethinking the Doodle
Rethinking the Doodle
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Watch Sunni Brown's TED Talk and think about how your feelings about doodling have changed and evolved throughout your life.
What have been your thoughts about doodling? Has Sunni Brown's TED Talk inspired you to think differently about doodling today? Create a sketchnote or record your thoughts in the following template. (Use all words, all pictures, or a combination of both.)
In 2013, Sunni Brown published her book The Doodle Revolution, where she re-defined the term doodle to mean “making spontaneous marks (with your mind and body) to help yourself think.” (Brown, 2014, p. 11). In chapter 2, Brown goes on to describe The Doodle’s Radical Contributions: Power, Performance, and Pleasure. The following graphic highlights those 3 Ps
Sketchnoting Benefits
Sketchnoting Benefits
Photo Credit: Mike Rohde via Flickr
Sketchnoting activates both sides of your brain as you listen, synthesize information, and make decisions about how you want to visualize thinking on page using a combination of words and images.
Photo Credit: Wendi Pillars via Twitter
In 2015 Wendi Pillars took sketchnoting and put into an educational context with the release of her her book Visual Note-taking for Educators: A Teacher’s Guide to Student Creativity. Her book is filled with brain research and ideas about how to incorporate visual note-taking in the classroom.
- Note-taking matters.
- More is better.
- Explicitly teaching note-taking strategies can make a difference.
- Adding visuals boosts the power of notes.
- Revision, collaboration, and pausing boosts the power of notes.
- Scaffolding increases retention.
- Providing instructor notes improves learning.
- Handwritten notes may be more powerful than digital notes, but digital note-taking can be fine-tuned.
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