Note-Taking for Dyslexics — Transcript

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1. 0:00i've had this hunch now already for
2. 0:01years that visual note taking is an
3. 0:03incredible tool
4. 0:04for remembering things especially if
5. 0:07you're dyslexic
6. 0:08and now i have these studies to back it
7. 0:10up
8. 0:11so without further ado let's get into it
9. 0:17welcome back to the channel in case
10. 0:18you're new my name is avery i'm a
11. 0:20dyslexic in the field of education
12. 0:21studies
13. 0:22and i'm going to go about this topic by
14. 0:24first showing you some of the
15. 0:25research results i'm going to tell you
16. 0:28why this
17. 0:29drawing slash visual note taking is so
18. 0:32effective
19. 0:33then i'm going to tell you why
20. 0:35especially dyslexics
21. 0:36should try it out and at the end i'm
22. 0:38going to give you a little summary
23. 0:40so in 2008 researchers of the university
24. 0:43of
25. 0:44waterloo came out with a study called
26. 0:46the surprisingly powerful
27. 0:48benefit of drawing on memory and there
28. 0:51they found that
29. 0:53drawing increases your likelihood of
30. 0:56remembering something
31. 0:58and they proved this in terms of words
32. 1:00but also in terms of definitions and
33. 1:02pictures so what exactly did they do the
34. 1:04participants
35. 1:05got 40 seconds time to either write down
36. 1:09the word that they were supposed to
37. 1:10remember multiple times or
38. 1:12they were supposed to draw it out and
39. 1:16this was done with multiple words and
40. 1:17then after a while they were asked what
41. 1:19they were able to remember
42. 1:21and this was the proportion of
43. 1:25what they were able to remember when
44. 1:27they were writing
45. 1:29and this was the proportion that they
46. 1:31were able to remember when they were
47. 1:33drawing
48. 1:33so this almost doubles
49. 1:37so we see that it is a lot more
50. 1:38effective if you want to remember
51. 1:40something
52. 1:41to draw it out versus writing it these
53. 1:44results were replicated so they tried it
54. 1:46out for example in a lecture hall where
55. 1:47they came up with
56. 1:48similar results and they also did
57. 1:51different versions of this experiment
58. 1:53and
59. 1:54in all these different conditions the
60. 1:57drawing
61. 1:58version came out as the better method
62. 2:02for remembering something so from the
63. 2:06results of the study we know that it
64. 2:07works
65. 2:08drawing improves memory however why
66. 2:12exactly is that the case they thought
67. 2:15about a solution or a
68. 2:16answer to this question and this is what
69. 2:18they came up with
70. 2:19they claimed that the first factor in
71. 2:22the effectiveness of drawing is the
72. 2:24actual motoric act of drawing a picture
73. 2:28we know that things that we do that we
74. 2:30act out are generally better remembered
75. 2:33so they say that this is one
76. 2:36contributing factor to
77. 2:38the effectiveness the second element
78. 2:40that they came up with has to do with
79. 2:41the elaborative nature of drawing
80. 2:44meaning that you need to come up with an
81. 2:45idea how you want to
82. 2:47transform a word a concept into a
83. 2:50picture
84. 2:51and that process will help you remember
85. 2:54that concept
86. 2:55better lastly when you are finished
87. 2:57drawing you
88. 2:58end up with a picture and we also know
89. 3:00that pictures generally
90. 3:01are better remembered than words when we
91. 3:04draw all these three elements work
92. 3:06together
93. 3:06and this is how these researchers
94. 3:08explain this enormous boost
95. 3:10in memory performance at the beginning
96. 3:12of this video i told you that i think
97. 3:14that this strategy
98. 3:15is especially effective for dyslexics
99. 3:18and
100. 3:18the reason i think that has to do with
101. 3:21research that has been done
102. 3:23on the working memory of dyslexics this
103. 3:26visual
104. 3:26representation shows you all the
105. 3:28different parts of the
106. 3:30working memory the phonological loop
107. 3:32also called the inner voice is
108. 3:33responsible for
109. 3:34written and spoken information in
110. 3:37contrast the
111. 3:38visual spatial sketchpad the inner eye
112. 3:41is responsible for
113. 3:42visual content and what we know from
114. 3:45research is that
115. 3:47while the phonological loop in dyslexics
116. 3:50is impaired
117. 3:51the visual spatial sketchpad is not so
118. 3:54by drawing out these concepts by using
119. 3:56visual note taking
120. 3:58we dyslexics might be able to use this
121. 4:00part of our working memory that
122. 4:02functions best
123. 4:03and i've done this throughout my studies
124. 4:05and it helped me out tremendously
125. 4:07so i would highly recommend that you try
126. 4:10it out
127. 4:11okay so let's sum it up if you go from
128. 4:14regular nodes to
129. 4:15drawing out your notes you'll be able to
130. 4:17remember around double the amount
131. 4:19and if you're dyslexic chances are that
132. 4:22this will
133. 4:23help you even to a greater extent so
134. 4:26yeah that's what i wanted to tell you
135. 4:28and i hope you enjoyed it
136. 4:30if you did consider sharing the video or
137. 4:33giving it a like
138. 4:34and see you in the next video
139. 4:46you