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Exactly. The actual creation process helps with memorization considerably. If someone just handed the diagram to me, I'd have a much harder time understanding i
by dgallagher 16y ago
Exactly. The actual creation process helps with memorization considerably. If someone just handed the diagram to me, I'd have a much harder time understanding it.
An untested theory of mine is that this would not be the case if the diagram was more entertaining. If walking through it told a story, possibly in comic-form, maybe with animation, you might have a better chance of grasping it. TV networks do this all the time with animations, most recently with the BP oil spill, showing how it was going to be capped.
FYI you can do the same with pencil/paper. There's no real need to use OmniGraffle/Visio/Photoshop/Whatever (asides from the advantages of having it on a computer).
- AustinBlues 16y agoIMHO, note taking is effective because it incorporates 2 or 3 of the common learning modes: seeing (visual), doing (kinesthetic), and if from a talk, hearing (aural). Generally this is enough to get something in my brain. I rarely need to look at the notes unless they are meeting notes and there is disagreement. For skills, e.g. differential calculus and programming, doing sample problems is especially important.