Learning by Design

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Turn ideas into pictures!

Visualize a blog post, TED Talk, Class lecture or even dense text from a book- through drawing. Use the pictures to symbolically represent & concretize abstract concepts, and to make connections between ideas. Try to use words sparingly and only to reinforce your imagery.

Doodle it in your notebook, use your tablet, or scribble it on the back of a napkin. Just be sure to digitize it and then blog about the process, including citing where your inspiration came from.

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Well maybe I got too carried away, but this is a response to @giuliaforsythe’s design assignment Learning by Design at ds106. This

Learning By Design

Turn ideas into pictures!

Visualize a blog post, TED Talk, Class lecture or even dense text from a book- through drawing. Use the pictures


I really wanted to try to make an infographic of some kind, so I decided to do the Learning By Design assignment

I have wanted to try visual note-taking for a while and have given it a couple of

For those of you in my classes, visual note taking will be an important skill for you to develop. It will increase your capacity for

Another great #etmooc session this eve. Audrey Watters dropped some awesome thought bombs. She posed some challenging questions, as we move beyond the analog

The assignment:

Visual Thinking and Symbols

Do ONE of the following assignments:

Learning By Design (*****) is an assignment in visual note taking. Because many of you

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