Most of us never received formal instruction in how to take notes, yet students spend considerable time in classes where teachers provide valuable information. How students took (or didn’t take) notes in high school is often what they start with in college, and possibly throughout their studies.
After college, we still need to take notes for job-related learning and our personal learning journeys.
Conclusions from research
📝 NOTE-TAKING
- There is a need for explicit instruction in note-taking strategies.
- When students learn how to incorporate note-taking skills and write down important ideas, they also improve their understanding of what they have read.
👀 VISUAL LEARNING
- Presenting ideas visually is an effective entry point to complex ideas.
- Visual summaries can be used to effectively supplement more traditional, linear verbal cues, like lectures and PowerPoint presentations.
🎨 DRAWING
- Gains are greater from drawing than other known mnemonic techniques, such as semantic elaboration, visualization, writing, and even tracing to-be-remembered information.
- Learners who created drawings exhibited higher comprehension test performance than learners who wrote verbal summaries.
✍️ HANDWRITTEN NOTES
- Longhand note-taking may enhance learners’ encoding and retention of the material by sustaining their attention to the lectures.
- Handwriting increases brain activity, hones fine motor skills, and can predict a child’s academic success in ways that keyboarding can’t.
Introduction to Visual Learning
Introduction to Visual Learning is a 60-90 minutes seminar with hands-on activities that will keep participants excited and enthusiastic about learning new ways to take notes. The techniques are supported by numerous research studies. In the seminar, participants will …
- Discover why visual notes are effective
- Identify content for visual notes
- Build skills in core areas
- Create a visual note
- Edit and share a visual note
Give your students, employees, and learners the visual advantage that will impact their note-taking style and help them remember more of what they learn.
How it works
- You’ll meet with Doug, Notes For Learning’s principal graphic recorder and educator, to discuss your unique needs, determine the content to be covered, and the amount of time needed to complete the seminar.
- Live training should be conducted where participants can be seated comfortably at tables or desks.
- All training materials are provided, except pens (preferred to pencils).
- Each participant will receive a copy of Look At My Notes: How to take and share visual notes, an information-rich and concise guide to reinforce concepts shared during the seminar.
- Participants will also have access to a library of videos that cover various aspects of visual note-taking and note-sharing.
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