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Sketchnoting & Critical Thinking... What Are They & How Do They Connect?

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What is sketchnoting?  Why is it useful?  How does a person create a sketchnote? Our senior art class is going to learn about sketchnoting and use it to help us understand critical thinking.  (well, that's the plan... we'll see how it goes) First, an intro video: *this is one of several videos on either sketchnoting or visual note taking Sketchnoting is quite different than "regular" note-taking because you have to sift through the material you are trying to collect.  You won't try to capture everything , and instead you must decide which ideas are most important along with the information that will support/illustrate/explain those ideas. We will explore the work of "noteworthy" sketchnoters, such as Sylvia Duckworth , Katharina TB , Silvia Tolisano  and more (if you know a great sketchnoter, send a tweet my way!   @ColleenKR ) Moving on to critical thinking: Our class will use sketchnoting to visualize the information from the followi