Visual Note-Taking with the IPad
Sketchnotes for Education
  • Visual Note-taking
  • SketchNotes App
  • Integration to the Classroom
  • Sample Lesson
  • List of Other Lesson Examples
  • Other Visual Note Taking Apps
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.


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