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Handmade Thinking Class Presentation
1. The document argues that visualization is essential to reading comprehension and that "without visualization, students cannot comprehend, and reading cannot be said to be reading." 2. It promotes using drawing as a way to increase student engagement, comprehension, creative problem-solving and critical thinking when combined with reading. Drawing focuses the mind and leads to greater engagement and presence. 3. The document provides guidance on simple drawing strategies and choices in visual formats to accompany reading, with the goal of improving reading, learning, and thinking.
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- 1. “In fact, withoutvisualization, students cannot comprehend, and reading cannot be said to be reading.” Reading is Seeing, Jeffrey Wilhelm
- 2. Handmade Thinking: Drawing Out Reading Laurence Musgrove Professor and Chair Department of English and Modern Languages Angelo State University
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- 12. WHY? Drawing with guided practice and choice in visual formats can increase reading engagement, comprehension, as well as creative problem-solving and critical thinking.
- 16. Drawing is Thinking •The hand focuses the mind • Focus = engagement = presence = mindfulness
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- 97. TAKE AWAY Drawing with guided practice and choice in visual formats can increase reading engagement, comprehension, as well as creative problem-solving and critical thinking.
- 98. Simple Drawing Strategies Austin Kleon – a blog post Dave Gray – a video Sunni Brown – an article Sunni Brown – an R-rated video Ed Emberley – a video Brandy Agerbeck – a video
Editor's Notes
- #5 I’m interested in two problems I’ve encounteredin the English classroom. And when I say the English classroom, I mean any class, writing, literature, undergraduate, and graduate.
- #6 Students don’t read what I assign them to read.
- #7 Students don’t read what I assign them in a critical way
- #8 How can we create more engaged and critical readers?
- #9 Some teachers give pop quizzes.
- #10 Some teachers give participation grades.
- #11 Some teachershave students write daily responses about what they read. I do this.
- #12 Some teachers have students draw their responses. I also do this.
- #14 My ideas about using “handmade thinking” in English began after I read Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin. Dan Roam argues that drawing can be a powerful tool for problem-solving and presenting one’s ideas to others.
- #20 Here they are in five groups.
- #21 The first group included those similar to Dan Roam’s portraits and maps. We could also think of these as the “noun” group.
- #22 Portraits
- #23 Maps
- #24 The next group includes images in pairs.
- #25 This a comic panel with two people in dialogue.
- #26 Comparison/contrast
- #27 Venn diagram
- #28 Seesaw
- #29 Scales
- #30 Some images indicate the growth of and relationship between ideas.
- #31 Like a tree.
- #32 The common web for brainstorming and mindmapping.
- #33 The organizational chart.
- #34 Which becomes a genealogical chart if you flip it.
- #35 There are images that show, like Dan Roam says, quantities or how much.
- #36 Bar charts
- #37 Pie charts
- #38 And multivariable charts. Roam puts this in the “why?” category.
- #39 And finally, some images show a progression over time.
- #40 Timeline
- #41 Before and after. Also, could fit in the “pairs” category.
- #42 The equation.
- #43 A flow chart.
- #44 Freytag’s pyramid plot line
- #45 This is another multivariable chart or +/- plot line that shows progression up and down and left to right. I learned about this from my friend Austin Kleon who learned it from Kurt Vonnegut’s book Palm Sunday. I don’t know where Kurt Vonnegut learned it.
- #46 This image is sediment, layers moving from bottom to top.
- #47 Here they are again.
- #49 Mary Karr’s CHERRY
- #53 “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
- #62 Thoreau’s JOURNALS
- #64 from “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich
- #72 from THE END OF NATURE by Bill McKibben
- #76 “Heat” by Joyce Carol Oates
- #77 “The Journey” by Edith Wharton
- #84 “A Journey” by Edith Wharton
- #86 from SAND COUNTY ALMANAC by Aldo Leopold