The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
The science is clear: Drawing beats out reading and writing to help students remember concepts.
May 14, 2019
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Go to My Saved Content.Research has shown that drawing can be a potent tool for learning. It can help students understand content better and and retain information more effectively. But it鈥檚 not because of an innate learning style鈥攖hat鈥檚 an outdated idea in education that has long been disproven. Drawing taps into visual, kinesthetic, and linguistic areas of the brain at the same time, so information is processed in three different ways, establishing more connections across the brain鈥檚 neural network鈥攁nd encoding learning more deeply.
To learn more about the research cited in the video, check out the links below.
- Myra A. Fernandes, Jeffrey D. Wammes, and Melissa E. Meade鈥檚 (2018)
- Polly R. Husmann and Valerie Dean O'Loughlin鈥檚 (2018)
- Harold Pashler, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert Bjork鈥檚 (2009)