Sketchbooks to Encourage Enquiry Based Learning
March 26, 2010 by admin
Filed under What can sketchbooks do for you?, When to use Sketchbooks
Frances Hatch http://www.franceshatch.co.uk/
Sketchbooks are an ideal tool to encourage learners to become actively involved in learning as a process.
There are times when working in your sketchbook is a fluid and natural process. At other times, you may want to purposefully prompt yourself, and take your thinking/sketchbook work to another level. Asking questions as you work in your sketchbook will help you develop your understanding of your interests and intentions, and enable ideas to really flow. Key questions to have floating in your head, which will promote enquiry based learning, might be:
- What do I already know? Feel?
- What do I want to know?
- How did that idea come into my mind?
- What was I thinking about when I was working?
- What strategies are working well for me?
- Why did I have the difficulties that I did?
- Why did it work well?
- What would I do differently next time?
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