Sketchnotes- A Notebooking Strategy

I have heard many times over that students have better recall of notes they write when they are handwritten. I was looking at Twitter this afternoon and saw a person sharing her students' sketchnotes and it caught my attention.

What is it?

Basically, it is a combination of text and drawings to summarize learning. The Tweets mentioned earlier had the students using a comic book template to write about the Milky Way Galaxy.

Why does it matter?

It has students synthesize information in a meaningful way to them. And, by creating visuals along with text, important information is easily highlighted. (I'm sure drawing it out helps commit it to memory as well.)

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