ACTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUE 17Sketch Notes

Complexity involved in
Planning LOW
Developing Materials LOW
Implementing in Class MODERATE

Description and Purpose

For Sketch Notes, students strive to illustrate the main concepts from a lecture as well as their interrelations. As the author of the Sketch Note Handbook, explains (Rohde, n.d.), Sketch Notes are notes created from a mix of handwriting, drawings, shapes, and visual elements such as boxes, lines, and arrows. The idea behind Sketch Notes is to boil down a large amount of information into a visual representation of words and simple symbols.

Sketch Notes requires students to reconceptualize their notes in a less-linear, more-visual fashion. The process of creating the ...

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