Sketch-noting and Infographics!
This week we learned the benefits and disadvantages of sketch-noting and infographics. Sketchnotes are a way to take quick and understandable notes while listening to something like a lecture. This way of note taking is ‘dual coding’ which means you are taking in information through writing and making small sketch drawings along side your notes.
Below, I have included a photo of the sketches that I made during this weeks class. We used this website, Skill Building Workshop to learn quick ways to scetch drawings.
In class, I chose to make a sketch note for ESL students to learn English. I made sketch notes of different symbols of Canada like a Canadian goose. I also included a drawing of a notepad including the names of 3 places in Canada. Below is a photo of the sketchnoting that I did in this weeks class.
The SAMR theory of technology adoption can help teachers evaluate technologies that could be considered to use in a classroom. The SAMR stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. Without diving into each aspect of the SAMR Theory, each word stands for a different way that technology can change or enhance the learning of students with given tasks. The top two on the scale can enhance the learners learning without changing the way the information is given or received. whereas the bottom two give technology the ability to change tasks with redesign or make them completely new. Teachers can use this theory to help evaluate technologies they want to use by seeing where it aligns with the picture below.
Sketchnoting can be beneficial but it can also have its drawbacks. In the future I’m hoping to teach a lower elementary grade like grade 2-3. Learners in these grades are less likely to benefit from something like sketchnoting because it won’t be used in the classroom setting. The idea of sketch noting and Infograph’s would be more beneficial in classrooms with older students where they will be taking their own notes.