Technology-Enhanced Learning: Impacts of drawing using technology on learning

Love this video which shows how drawing impact on memory and enhanced learning.

https://www.edutopia.org/video/powerful-effects-drawing-learning

Great sharing by Tom Mullaney on 4 drawing apps, including autodraw which I mentioned below.

https://tommullaney.com/2019/01/10/comparing-and-contrasting-googles-actual-drawing-apps/

Google Jam, Google Keep and Chrome canvas

Attended a training by Apple on 24 May and learned to use SketchesSchool.

The app icon on the left bottom corner of the picture above. You can download the "Everyone can create Teacher Guide" from the Apple store and refer to the chapter on drawing on how you can apply the use in various subjects.

I find sketchesSchool easier to use than penultimate. Really love that you can insert the photo and trace then remove the background. Could use it for Geography field sketch so that students can see that you only need to highlight relevant features by tracing the outline and annotate them. To ease the tracing, you can increase the transparency of the picture.

Just realised that Sketch -draw &paint on Android can perform similar function as well, setting transparency and tracing. You can also add or remove layer and do time recording of your drawing!

Just like Procreate which I had learned from an apple field trip in 2018, you can also record the drawing into a time lapse video. Good for telling a story too as you can capture both the drawing and audio as you draw!

Our first activity was to draw our name and use it to tell more about ourselves. A good ice breaking activity. Like the idea so much I did another one to tell more about myself. Inserted a picture of my caricature which was from the app Mojipop.

The second activity was to mindmap what we think creativity is. Would be similar to what we did for sketchnoting but using Sketchesschool instead of autodesk or penultimate.

And definitely useful for sketchnoting which I created a mindmap on creativity shown below.

Use of drawing for sketchnoting for various subjects.

As shown in the video above drawing can be extended to collect, analyse and explain data for data visualisation.

Suggested use of infographics for various subjects :

Refer to Apple book - teacher guide on "Everyone Can Create" in Chapter 2. Different ways of organising information suggested. You can also download the rubrics for drawing in the overview in the guide book. https://education-static.apple.com/everyone-can-create/teacher-guide/everyone_can_create_rubrics.numbers

I would also like to recommend the drawing tool in SLS thinking routine. As shown by the video below, you can get the students to respond by drawing a picture or label a diagram in thinking routine. One of the Maths teacher shared how she gotten the students to draw the shapes of objects they have observed under the 3 categories (3-columns).

Kindly shared by Chia Wenn Teck from SGLDC

Showing how I can get my students to learn map reading skill with the drawing tool in SLS thinking routine.

Many Chinese teachers are teaching handwriting using the draw tool too!

Sharing autodraw.com With AI, it can even guess what you are drawing. No login or download of app needed. It works on browser. Those who cannot draw can do so too. e.g. when they draw a line which is crooked, they can click on the suggested straight-line above. Or any objects for auto draw. Text can be inserted. You can also select each item and shift it. Easy to use and can download as picture file.

I gotten the students to draw a poster and then download the picture which is air dropped to me. You can also get them to upload in thinking routine so that there is a virtual gallery and their peers can also comment in SLS.

I am a fan of the Google Suite and really love what Amanda had shared on Google Draw. Do click on the link below to see how you can add links and videos to your infographic.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YvEF0hnb-hc-Q0fYj0jE-D6_INxAHEXIZfvIdLmKf4o/present?slide=id.g3dd1ed6156_0_0#slide=id.g3dd1ed6156_0_0

I would also like to share the posts by the members of SGLDC on how drawing impact on learning using technology.

Harley uses Google Draw to design her infographic which can be embedded into SLS. The use of Google Draw allows her to add video links and text to highlight the concepts to her students.