Drawing in class: Rachel Smith at TEDxUFM
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- Rachel S. Smith is a Senior Consultant and the Director of Digital Facilitation Services for The Grove Consultants International in San Francisco, CA. Rachel develops ways to integrate technology into visual practice. She has a deep understanding of new media and its application to education through her previous role as Vice President for Services of the New Media Consortium, and prior experience leading her own graphic design company. Rachel is a skilled visual facilitator and recorder and works with groups both both face-to-face and virtually. She blogs at www.digitalfacilitation.net
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
I'm 24 years old now and when I was 15 another student next to me told the teacher "she is drawing in class." The teacher didn't prich me. She said "some people concentrate better drawing or doing something else." than she asked me if I could say what she was teaching, so I did. I summarized and she said "See? she is paying attention. Please keep what you are doing. You have my permission"
the student next to you obviously wasn't paying attention if he/she noticed you were drawing xD
yeahhh I agree hahahah
Yeah I just got kicked out of class for drawing...
Thanks so much for the shares, the likes, and the positive feedback. I'm really touched by the number of people who have told me this video helped unlock their own inner visual notetaker. Keep on drawing!
Rachel Smith u r beautiful .. 💜
thanks a lot!!! u are superb.. u helped me in infinite amounts!!!😋
As a child in the early 60's I was left handed. My teachers insisted I write with my right hand. The result is that I draw and write with both hands at the same time. I doodled all the time and I was punished for this. I continued doodling everyday as for me it is a meditation. I have worked in communications for over 30 years and I always draw when I am in lectures or training. My bosses and co-workers have never understood. I even draw when I am watching television. When I dream I am drawing. For me it's as essential as breathing. Thanks Rachel I really appreciate what you are doing.
Rachel S. Smith , Thank you for such a brief moment of inspiration, and above all for reinstating the concept that what we express is more important than the details that float through our minds.
I am a 12 year old student in England who wants to give a message to all art teachers since this is a simple wish that should be allowed....
In art class i always start doodling when i have finished a task.
I always used to be told off but when i had enough of being shouted at i told the teacher at the end of the lesson,
'I was trying to practice not trying to draw some non sense that hasn't got a single thing to do with the lesson'
its still art it helps you develop your style and if somebody wants to make a living of drawing, they need to be good
not all mixed up in different styles like some sort of manga & photo-realistic drawings in my opinion.
However if you still can't understand my main point its that doodling is not messing about in class its practicing.
somebody will try to say that 'What if they are doodling while the teacher is talking'.
My answer is that I'm not talking about whether to doodle while the teacher is talking, its about 'practicing' while you have spare time in class when you have done your task.
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7 years later they still making us watch ted talks
2018
5:00 low & high success teams
7:13 the notebook
12:06 take this to heart
Literally even watching a 15 minute TED talk is hard for me without extra visual and creative stimulus. Drawing is thinking
My teachers usually don't care if I draw in class but if they do I might tell them to come watch this video
Great job! I’ve watched a lot of visual note taking videos and this is in my top 4.
Love it! Such good inspiration before heading into a high school tomorrow to introduce sketchnoting.
Rachel, I'm back again to share this once again. I've watched it several times and referred it to lots and lots and lots of people. This time it's my brother. In the past it's been the HR director for our (large!) K-12 school district. THANKS for doing this at your TEDx!!
If you know the Myers-Briggs personality types model and the associated cognitive functions, i think this works very well for Ne types. The brain of Ne people naturally works and learns by making connections between things in their own minds, so making these connections on paper usually helps them think and remember things later. I'm INTP and starting to take notes like this has been incredible for me. I also brainstorm like this.
I think one thing to remember from this talk is not just visual note taking. It's also using tools and processes and systems that work well for how your brain works. Experiment with note taking, but also on your work flow, etc. See how your brain works and find the best way to complement it.
+Maka
= Hi, if you like to draw, please check my channel.
+Maka I think It would work well for everybody, but definitely for Ne types, and perhaps Se types as a close second.
+Maka God is an INTP.
sizzlenotsteak Evidence to support conclusion?
+Benjamin Jacobs Duh, brah, it's all around you.
I am a 91 year old woman and wished I knew about this when I was going to school. I am fascinated
Fantastic, Rachel. Thank you for sharing this.
Excellent talk, containing superb advice for anyone who has never tried this.
That's what I teach my kids in my class. That's what I promote. Very effective.
This is excellent! I experienced this in school, too and only recently discovered visual notetaking for me again. It is so helpful and so much fun. Rachel Smith's lecture is really inspiring and I love her little "drawing lecture" at the very end. This figure will get into my visual library!
Rachel Smith thanks a lot....you are awesome!!
I love Rachel Smith.
Same happened with my son. He has habit to draw and he get determinations a lot.
Some times I was fed up and ask him why he does that.
As school and teacher always blame him that he is not a good student as he don’t pay attention.
Thanks for this video, I can understand my son better now.
You rocked this Rachel, congrats!
I've been working in this for two years and agree with everything! Great synthesize exercise!
I love your voice Rachel Smith.
Beautiful thank you. Love it.
Hits me right in the 80's. I was always getting thrown out of algebra for this.
Way to go, Rachel.
Rachel, this is amazing. I am linking to your video in my art appreciation class, with the notion that it will not only help think about art differently, but think about their learning differently.
Whenever I'm in social studies I anime-fy my notes, separating it from good guys to bad guys whether it be, Titan to scouts, vampires to humans, or demons to exorcists.
It may sound weird but it help and it's funny when the teacher doesn't know what I'm talking about
I really needed this
im doing this for school during quarantine bruh
Yes! She understands!
How can I get better at drawing?
@@marymary5181 do it every day and be kind to yourself
Practical tips. Awesome.
I love this, thank you so much for sharing.
I also read recently that drawing during class is linked to a symptom of disconformt, and it is how we manifest it. I kind of agree, I draw more frequently during class when the lecture is boring.
This is how I used to take notes when I was little, I should get back to taking visual notes
I want to post this everywhere! Thank you, so simple but yet so important.
this. concept enabled me to using photographic memory to learn Braille. i also got a scolding. i was blindfolded in class.but at home I used a magnifier to see the design of the dots.
So mad..... my teacher told my class in his syllabus that drawing in class, even for notes is offensive. He also said that theres no need for it since the powerpoint is online for us to see the notes again. But to me I've always done better with my hands doing something. Humans aren't meant to sit for extended times and shouldn't be expected to regurgitate the info on recall. We aren't machines. As humans we tend to learn more through action.
Sure i can take notes outside of class with illustration, but in art history i can't tell you how much i've learned in the prior classes through drawing. Recreating works from master paintings allows me to connect with how the artist obtained a certain affect. This just frustrates me because drawing is offensive if you let it be. If i'm sitting in the back of the class drawing a picture of him dancing then yes that's offensive, but if my picture relates to the subject what's wrong with that.
I don't care who it is but i tend to understand more when i'm drawing. Whenever i talk one on one with anyone, friends, fam,etc. i have to have a pen in my hand to interpret what they are saying into art. Furthermore i use drawing during class to take my eyes off the speaker and don't take that for what it sounds like. What i mean is sometimes since i have a stigmatism in my eyes, they tend to feel like they are crossing. The room where the class is going to be held in, i've had before and its super dim lit. Every class i've had in the past 4 years have made my eyes dart sporatically, so instead of trying to focus on the teacher i look at my paper that is just white and draw to take my eye pain off of it. Some times the pain is so significant it will make me hop up unexpectedly. It sounds stupid but this is the only room that aggravates my eyes like that.
All of which i can't explain to the teacher because he illustrated his hate for drawing during class regardless of the subject matter. Oh and get a load of this you can't even right a side note on the page that says don't forget dinner at this time. That aggravates me to because i tend to think of stuff like that at the most random times that i wouldn't have thought of at any other time during the day. Yes i have planners but it irks me i can't put a little tiny note saying that on the page. I get that he wants to be focused on only the class but when its a four hour class, then he needs to expect everyones mind to drift occasionally. I'm a focused dude, but come on. You can't tell me his mind doesn't think about other things during meetings, get togethers,etc.
This class feels mechanical
That was a really great lesson and one I wish I’d known when I was still at school and college
Brilliant presentation! Thank you!!
Patience with technical difficulties, very important.....
Она говорит - постройте заранее и освойте библиотеку простых символов и используйте ее для создания образов
Love your voice and your accent.
most of my drawings were done in class XD
You were enough lucky mam; as you had been engaged with such a productive path of notetakeing since then.
Great job, Rachel. You rock!
Thank you. Very creative.
This was wonderful.
Now I just have to show this to my teacher...
Super creative teacher!!!!
That was great! Thanks!
Rachel, thanks.
That is amazing
though i never had to clean up or anything, my problem was that teachers allways insisted that i take notes, but all notes did was distract me, i was perfectly good to just listen to what they said and remember it, i kind of lost it at some point but it was how i was with textbooks too, i guess i used to be interested in the material, at least in science and history(wher there was stuff to actually read about), i figure my mind got tired of reading the same stuff every year or so, so i now have trouble reading textbooks like that anymore. but it was great on the multiple choice tests because i remembered it all somewhere in my head subconciously and id just kinda know.
reminds me it allways drove me crazy, the big multiple choice test would come around and they would have you write down what score you were aiming for and they'd suggest aiming for the score one higher than the previous time. id be like what the hell do you think im going for fuck that im going for advanced, everytime, why would i aim any lower? not that i expected to get particularly high in some subjects(fuck algebra, my mind works with geometry, but fuck algebra my brain just doesnt work that way i gotta know why i do these things im not just gonna take your word for it, i need to know the logic so that if i forget the process i can work it out myself) but its not like i was only going try a little harder than before, im trying to get as many questions right as possible isnt that the point?
U know what? Japanese are good at visual notetaking. I have been involved with Japanese co workers since the 80's and most of them wrote visually.
wonderful
I did that til now :))
maybe this is why i never did very well in school??? I took notes in the outline method, just didn't work for me, Ms Smith, might you have a 'library' of visual icons you could send me? Thanks
Art class is the best tho
so for example , around 13mn, about virtual and patience, why don t u just write: people having patience in front of a computer problem. in fact, when wWHEN SHE EXPLAINS HER DRAWINGS IT S ACTUALLY WORDS SHE S SAYING AND THAT S THE LANGUAGE SHE CHOSE TO EXPLAIN HIS POINT IF VUE !!! :)
Key words
That's good strategy
I like her
Yep... that's my story only that I'm still 12 and I don't have a job
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Hi!
Oh my god. I cant believe teachers prevent students from taking notes. this is why the american educational system is crumbling.
its also the British
and pretty much any other.
Maybe except finnish.
The art of taking notes. Still I would strongly suggest to abandon the use of tablets and laptops as they are very distracting and inflexible. Better a sketchbook and a soft pencil. Then have fun at home colouring your notes. The process of colouring helps to rethink the whole.
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those gorgeous scholars from TEDx are driving me crazy
Jorge Luiz Correia har har har .. Rachel is HOT ..💟
Maybe there's a reason why people write with logographics
Meh, I just draw on my sketchpad in class because whatever the teachers saying is boring. However I don't really get bad grades. I'm in highschool and quite frankly it's just one big joke, the material is so basic you don't even have to pay attention.
Just wait till you get into college lol
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Another visual person, so many visual people ..unfortunately our education system is not designed for visual people
please translate into Russian
Mal video, no porque sea malo si no porque me dio tarea
her pants are very distracting LOL
I found that it helped to doodle them :-)
Clever gimmick; I'm sure it sells well for consulting. A counterpoint is that the audience that this type of note taking works for is limited. It simply doesn't work for many people, learning is not always personally relevant. You could argue it provides sensory overload and is unorganized. I'm not buying it.
Taking notes visually is a personal way of learning. I think this talk is oriented to all creative and visual oriented minds that haven´t tried this methodology before. I practice this since 1999 when taking notes "normally" or highlighting books wasn´t enough to retain and understand the information. Drawing or doodling in class is still punished in the classroom, but, What if is the way that student is learning?
actually, you could say the same about written language which is just a series of drawn hieroglyphs. Both are spatial activities, the difference is one is practised continually the other is not, this is why it does not work for many people, an education system has told them not to do it, because the activity has become greatly misunderstood, considered niche and pastoral. This is a cultural problem and not a human problem. Forty percent of our brains thinking is visual intelligence, it is how we see the world and make sense of it.
What you perceive as a clever gimmick is simply an extension of something we all share, an ability to visually record what we see and understand about the world. If it really isn't for you, then don't do it. But until you try you will never know.
jgtemperton holy shit, just TORCHED the original commenter omg GOT EEM