What might happen when we stop lecturing and start sketching? In this episode, we explore how we can use blank paper as a tool for discovering content.

This is not art as a break, this is not art for mental health even though art is very important for mental health. This is about art as learning and you, educator, are the strategic facilitator of this art making.

True innovation shouldn’t be a new fancy tool; it’s a radical change in delivery. Join us as we discuss how a simple shift in medium can lead to students having "mind-blown" moments related to your class. If you want your class and content to matter, get out the markers and the paper.

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Three activities to have kids discover content through art:

1. Draw a house
2. Draw your community
3. Draw your descendants

Activity from Stanford d.School can be found here: https://dschool.stanford.edu/tools/portrait-descendant-futures-thinking-k12

Thinking Routine from Project Zero, See, Think, Wonder: https://pz.harvard.edu/resources/see-think-wonder

Follow up questions with art:

• What do you think about that?
• Can you say more about that?

Check out Donor’s Choose to get supplies for art in your classroom: www.donorschoose.org