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New in Paperback! Drawing on the Dominant EyeĪ Conversation with Paola Vojnovic, Art Historian in Florence Learning to Draw Knows No Language Barrier New Korean Edition of Drawing on the Dominant Eye! That’s why we exclusively write about play, review toys, and suggest a ton of muddy activities for children.”ĭrawing Is A Great Way To Slow Down & Appreciate The World Around Us As chief editor for Muddy Smiles, he advocates for (loads) more play and creativity within education and at home." Why Muddy Smiles? To quote them: “Childhood – like it’s meant to be – involves three key ingredients: play, toys, mud. It need only take five minutes, but this habit may just improve your memory while adding a moment's joy to your day.Īrthur is a child play theorist, creative educator, and father of three. Drawing to remember is all about quick creativity and a jot of effort. There’s no need to evaluate or criticize this sort of free-form creativity. Just remember, whether it’s you, your children or students, keep drawing fun. Trying to improve your body posture? Draw yourself walking straight and tall.Ĭan’t forget to pick up some milk? Draw a cow or make dairy-related sketch. Want to be kinder to yourself? Draw a representation of this each day. Need to call your mom? Draw a picture of her in the morning. You can even include drawing prompts and challenges on assessment materials.Īnd don’t forget that using drawing to boost memory isn’t just a classroom thing. Giving kids drawing and other creative prompts to create class journals in place of the traditional notebook can also get them interested in different ways to record and present information. For more complex concepts, students might even enjoy creating their own sketchbooks or comics. Making posters, diagrams, or comic strips to illustrate course concepts is a fun alternative to essay-writing. There are many potential class projects that can allow students to exercise their drawing skills in service of learning. In particular, students who do poorly with traditional classroom reading, note-taking, and memorization may benefit from being allowed to draw instead. An actively engaged brain is more receptive and less likely to wander or tune out.įor teachers, drawing can provide a better way to help students remember what they learn. By involving all these different parts of your brain in the process, you increase the likelihood of the information being retained.Īnother possible reason is that drawing requires a person to take an active role in acquiring and depicting the information, instead of just passively stuffing concepts into the brain or jotting down a list.
And once the drawing is created, the part of your brain that interprets pictures gets in on the act, translating the picture back into the original concept. First, you have to make the mental effort to translate the concept into an image, followed by the physical effort of directing your hands and eyes to create the drawing. So why does it work? The researchers think it's because the act of drawing creates multiple mental connections to the word or concept. Even a few seconds of sketching seems to make something easier to remember as compared to traditional note-taking.įor more in-depth detail on the researchers' work, you can find their original article here. It doesn't matter how much artistic talent you have, or whether it's just a quick doodle. Fernandes, Wammes, and Meade's work showed that people who draw words from a list are twice as likely to remember them later than if they had just written them down. In 2018, psychologists Myra Fernandes, Jeffrey Wammes, and Melissa Meade of the University of Waterloo ran an experiment with various groups of younger and older adults to discover the relationship between drawing and memory. But did you know that drawing may actually make it easier for a student's brain to retain information? New psychological research suggests that this may be the case, and offers a deeper insight into how we learn and remember. We've known for a while that drawing exercises the brain in different ways from reading and writing.
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