Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity
Author: Wendi Pillars
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-11-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0393709841

A step-by-step guide for teachers to the benefits of visual note-taking and how to incorporate it in their classrooms. We've come a long way from teachers admonishing students to put away their drawings and take traditional long-form notes. Let's be honest: note-taking is boring and it isn't always the most effective way to retain information. This book is a guide for teachers about getting your students drawing and sketching to learn visually. Whether in elementary school or high school, neuroscience has shown that visual learning is a very effective way to retain information. The techniques in this book will help you work with your students in novel ways to retain information. Visual note-taking can be used with diverse learners; all ages; and those who have no drawing experience. Teachers are provided with a library of images and concepts to steal, tweak, and use in any way in their classrooms. The book is liberally illustrated with student examples from elementary and high school students alike.

Visual Learning and Teaching

Visual Learning and Teaching
Author: Susan Daniels
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1631982877

A comprehensive guide to visual learning strategies with easy-to-use activities. Emojis . . . avatars . . . icons . . . Our world is becoming increasingly reliant on visual communication. Yet our classrooms still heavily focus on traditional oral and written instruction. In this first-of-its-kind resource, Dr. Susan Daniels channels over twenty years of research and experience into a comprehensive guide of visual learning strategies that enable educators to rise to the challenges of 21st century education no matter what age range they serve within the K–8 population. This hands-on resource helps educators create a “visual toolbox” of tools that promote visual literacy across the curriculum, and it offers interactive activities to encourage visual learning and communication in all students via mind maps and visual journals. Drawing on her experience working with gifted, creative, and twice-exceptional children, Dr. Susan Daniels has created visual learning strategies that all children can benefit from. Digital content includes customizable forms and examples of completed forms as well as a PDF presentation for professional development.

Sketchnoting in the Classroom

Sketchnoting in the Classroom
Author: Nichole Carter
Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2022-08-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1564847756

Author Nichole Carter shows how sketchnotes can help students retain new material, develop skills to articulate empathy and build connections to larger concepts. Sketchnoting in the Classroom includes strategies for helping students feel successful as they develop their skills, for example, asking them what their brain is telling them, asking how they learn best and encouraging the process through specific note-taking strategies. The book includes: • Analysis of the brain science behind sketchnoting, including teaching students how to identify patterns and apply them effectively in their sketchnotes. • Lesson ideas for sketchnoting across content areas, including science, social studies, English language arts and math. • Tools and resources for both analog and digital sketchnoting techniques. • Tips for using sketchnotes for professional development, including at conferences and at department or staff meetings. • Examples from a variety of teachers with experience using sketchnotes in their classes. This book makes sketchnotes more accessible to all teachers and helps both teachers and students feel confident in visual note-taking.

Summarization in Any Subject

Summarization in Any Subject
Author: Rick Wormeli
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416626808

Summarization. Just when we thought we knew everything about it, the doors to divergent thinking open and summarization—no longer something that students must endure until you get to the "cool" stuff—takes on an exciting new role in student success! In this second edition of Summarization in Any Subject, Dedra Stafford joins Rick Wormeli in adding fresh depth and creative variations to the basics, including changes to all 50 techniques from the first edition and brand new summarizing techniques that can be differentiated for multiple disciplines and levels of student readiness. Personably written, with a sense of humor and a commitment to students' substantive engagement with curriculum, this new edition provides practical, "show me what it looks like" tools and descriptions as well as QR codes and tech integrations for many of the techniques. The book provides A clear rationale for summarization in any subject along with an explanation of the cognitive science that powers its positive effects, including the influence of background knowledge and primacy-recency, plus the benefits of metaphors, chunking, timing, maintaining objectivity, and the efficacy that comes when students process content. Practical tips for teaching students note taking, paraphrasing, and text structure. Nine easy strategies that teachers can use to help students begin to understand what they need to know in order to summarize. Detailed descriptions of 60 strategies and critical thinking variations that provide students with memorable learning experiences, plus targeted support materials that assist in teaching and learning. It's time to revitalize learning and shatter the tedium associated with summarization, and this new edition of Summarization in Any Subject can help you do just that.

Creative Journaling for Teachers

Creative Journaling for Teachers
Author: Nichole Carter
Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2023-02-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1564849538

This interactive book from the author of Sketchnoting in the Classroom shows educators how to use the practice of dot journaling to develop a personalized system for time management, goal setting and more to improve productivity and save time. We are living in an age when “hustle” and “grind” are part of our daily lives. While teachers are expected to stay on top of their lengthy to-do list, the demands on them are greater than ever. How can we provide the tools teachers and, by extension, their students need to declutter thoughts, manage time better, and remain focused and productive? With her approachable style, educator and trainer Nichole Carter demonstrates how unlocking the creative brain can help improve mental health and problem-solving ability, as well as lead to better self-awareness and time management. Filled with the author’s original illustrations, the book shares ideas and techniques for developing an effective, personalized system to improve productivity and address teacher burnout. The book can also help teachers help students — particularly those in older grades — prioritize and think through their thoughts, goals and actions to be more productive learners. Throughout the book, readers will be presented with challenges and prompts that will encourage them to write and reflect. The book: • Features beautiful full-color illustrations, including sample layouts, calendar ideas and more. • Includes access to online content available on the author’s companion website, such as journal and planner templates, additional tutorials, printables and how-to videos. • Helps teachers understand and meet their own goals, and learn metacognitive strategies for teaching students how to assess their habits and goals, and reflect on them. • Highlights a range of analog and digital tools, and shows how teachers and students can use them. With this book, readers will discover a fun, creative and popular approach to improve their productivity and focus, and strategies for passing these skills along to their students. Audience: K-12 educators, preservice teachers, teacher trainers

How to Sketchnote

How to Sketchnote
Author: Sylvia Duckworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2019-02-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733646864

Educator and internationally known sketchnoter Sylvia Duckworth makes ideas memorable and shareable with her simple yet powerful drawings. In How to Sketchnote, she explains how you can use sketchnoting in the classroom and that you don't have to be an artist to discover the benefits of doodling! Sketchnoting (aka visual note-taking) allows students to see the bigger picture in the concepts they are studying, make connections in their learning, and display their learning process--and all of that leads to better retention. In this fun and inviting book, Sylvia equips you with the basic tools you and your students need to introduce doodling and sketchnoting in the classroom. With step-by-step sketchnote practice sessions and 180+ icons you can use or adapt to represent your ideas, How to Sketchnotewill inspire you to embrace the doodler within--even if you think you can't draw.

My Pencil Made Me Do It

My Pencil Made Me Do It
Author: Carrie Baughcum
Publisher: Edugladiators
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733686464

The pencil is a single tool that has the power to reset mindsets, enhance thinking, improve retention, recall, and comprehension, calm us and make us smile...all this from our pencil! My Pencil Made Me Do It is a unique, hands-on, create-to-connect and doodle-to-learn book that will have readers DISCOVERING powerful moments, LEARNING the power behind visual thinking, and doodling to learn. Through honest perspective and creative insight, Carrie opens educators and students to VISUALIZING their thinking and their learning while enabling them to experience how they can bring visual thinking into our world. After reading this book, you can expect to: CONNECT with your very own visual learner and the deep power this holds. DOODLE your way through meaningful visual- and doodle-filled activities. REPEAT this creative epiphany tomorrow to bring out the best in yourself, your teaching, your children, and your students!

The Art of Visual Notetaking

The Art of Visual Notetaking
Author: Emily Mills
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633226220

Improve your bullet journals, to-do lists, class notes, and everything in between with The Art of Visual Notetaking and its unique approach to taking notes in the twenty-first century. Visual notetaking is the perfect skill for journaling, class lectures, conferences, and any other time that retaining information is key. Also referred to as sketchnoting, visual notetaking is ideal for documenting processes, planning projects, outlining ideas, and capturing information. And as you'll learn in The Art of Visual Notetaking, this approach doesn't require advanced drawing or hand-lettering skills; anyone can learn how to use simple lines, connectors, shapes, and text to take dynamic notes. In The Art of Visual Notetaking, aspiring sketchnoters and journalers will find helpful "Getting Started" pages of icons and badges for common note-taking purposes, with tips and encouragement for creating you own unique icons. You'll go on to discover instruction and how-to techniques, tips, and tutorials that focus on visual notetaking for different settings, from a business meeting, workshop, or convention, to a college lecture or sermon. Expert instruction from a professional sketchnote artist and educator demonstrates how to visually arrange and compile ideas, focal points, and key concepts.

Independent Learner

Independent Learner
Author: Nina Parrish
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1952812445

Teach students how to self-regulate with research-affirmed, teacher-tested strategies. Perfect for teachers in any grade level or content area, this book will give you the tools you need to equip students with metacognitive skills and the ability to take ownership of their learning. Support students as they learn how to build intrinsic motivation, emotional literacy, and problem solving skills—all essential for future success. K-12 teachers will use this problem solving model to: Learn the benefits and components of self-regulated learning Encourage students to take ownership of their learning by providing authentic, challenging learning experiences Discover numerous research-based strategies and activities that can be used across grade levels and subject areas Create an engaging classroom culture that promotes student agency in education Receive reproducible tools and educational templates you can use to maximize student learning Contents: Introduction: Why It’s Important to Develop Self-Regulated Learners Chapter 1: Metacognition Chapter 2: Mindsets and Motivation Chapter 3: Emotional Regulation and Behavior Chapter 4: Planning, Prioritizing, Organizing, and Time Management Chapter 5: Remembering, Understanding, and Applying Chapter 6: Critical Analysis, Evaluation, and Creative Thinking Conclusion References and Resources Index

Playing with Media

Playing with Media
Author: Wesley A. Fryer
Publisher: Speed of Creativity Learning
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0983104832

We need to play with media to become more effective communicators. This book was written to inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Although written primarily for educators, anyone who is interested in learning more about digital communication will learn something new from this book. As children, we learn to progressively make sense of our confusing world through play. The same dynamics apply to us as adults communicating with new and different media forms.