EDCT 5479 - Sketch, Think, Learn: Using Visual Notes to Deepen Classroom Engagement

Delivery Options Distance Learning

Course Description

In this creative and practical course, you’ll explore how sketchnoting — a powerful visual note-taking strategy — can help students process, retain, and connect ideas more deeply. Using the texts The Sketchnote Handbook and Ink and Ideas, you’ll learn how to make thinking visible, foster engagement, and support comprehension through simple drawings, symbols, and text. This course provides hands-on opportunities to practice sketchnoting yourself while designing lessons that bring this strategy into your K-12 classroom. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped with tools to help students think more creatively, take meaningful notes, and express their understanding in dynamic new ways.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will understand:

What sketchnotes are
Why to use sketchnotes with students
When and how to use sketchnotes with students

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Sketch, Think, Learn: Using Visual Notes to Deepen Classroom Engagement

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Tuition credit (3 units)

$700.00

3 Quarter Credits

Reading List / Textbook

Must Be Purchased Separately:

Ink & Ideas: Sketchnotes for Engagement, Comprehension, and Thinking by Tanny McGregor, Heinemann 2019, 161 pages
The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking by Mike Rohde, Peachpit Press, 2013, 205 pages

Section Notes

This course is offered in collaboration with The Innovative Northwest Teacher (TINT)

Course is self-paced. Completion time: up to one year from date of enrollment.

Refund Policy: Withdrawals submitted online through SPU within 7 days of enrollment will receive a 95% refund. Withdrawals received after that point will not receive a refund and no withdrawals will be accepted after the completion deadline for the course. Instructions on how to withdraw are located on our website under Students/Withdrawal and Refund Policies.