Advantages of visual note-taking with SketchNotes app

- Applications for teachers

• Great for editing and marking papers and other student work.
• Great assessment tool to see that students understand concepts.

- Applications for students

• good for differentiated instruction if students are better able to pay attention when drawing
  
• visual note taking gets students to make connections between what they are hearing and drawing, therefore deepens their understanding
  

• benefits differentiated instruction for students who understand, but have difficulty with language and are better with images
  
• can add details to simple pictures to include more info.
• great for students to demonstrate their understanding of various concepts.

Required tools (what you need)

• You need an IPad
  
• You need an HDMI or VPN adaptor to connect to big screen
• Ideally an IPad stylus pen (this makes drawing easier and allows for more detail than using fingers)

Things to Consider

• ensure students are saving work, could be lost
  

• ensure students are only using tools within the app that they are comfortable with and do not get distracted by
  

• need to have visual vocabulary, similar to word vocabulary
• students need to learn how to use the app before it can be integrated into any lessons.

• drawing images should be simple so students are focusing on the speaker
  

Drawbacks

• visual note taking would be good for concept mapping, but this could potentially limit the student’s ability to pay attention
• text only comes in one basic font
• students who think they can't draw well may not enjoy the app.