1. Emphasize content. Remind students that “informational” is the first word — the information must be there in order to do a graphic. 2. Spend the first three weeks working on content only. Find ...

Lucy Partman believes that sometimes you have to get as far away from technology as possible to hatch the next great innovation. For the first assignment for her new course “Looking Lab: Experiments ...

World Sketchnote Day 2026 draws attention to the growing practice of sketchnoting—a visual method of capturing ideas using ...

What is “design thinking,” and why does it belong in America’s classrooms? Actually, as cognitive scientist Lindsay Portnoy explains in this post, many teachers are already using design thinking but ...

Out of all the skills today’s students need to develop, critical thinking is perhaps the most important. Critical thinking not only helps students make stronger connections to information they learn ...

People who don’t think visually often have a hard time imagining the mental lives of those who do. By thinking, I mean conscious planning, problem-solving, imagining, and reminiscing. Most mental ...

Arts and science are sometimes thought to be on opposite ends of the spectrum of creativity. However, the Visual Thinking Strategies tactic has shown that implementing arts into other fields of ...