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    This document discusses the study strategy of dual coding, which involves combining words and visuals to improve learning. It recommends comparing class materials to visuals, explaining visuals in your own words, and drawing your own visuals to represent information you are trying to learn. Different types of visuals someone could create include infographics, timelines, cartoon strips, diagrams, or graphic organizers. The goal is to work up to drawing visual representations from memory to reinforce understanding.

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    This document discusses the study strategy of dual coding, which involves combining words and visuals to improve learning. It recommends comparing class materials to visuals, explaining visuals in your own words, and drawing your own visuals to represent information you are trying to learn. Different types of visuals someone could create include infographics, timelines, cartoon strips, diagrams, or graphic organizers. The goal is to work up to drawing visual representations from memory to reinforce understanding.

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    LEARN TO STUDY USING…

    Dual Coding
    COMBINE WORDS AND VISUALS

    LEARNINGSCIENTISTS.ORG

    HOW TO DO IT
    COMPARE

    Look at your class materials and find visuals. Look over the visuals
    and compare to the words.

    Look at visuals, and explain in your own words what they mean.

    Take information that you are trying to learn, and draw visuals
    to go along with it.

    HOLD ON! INFOGRAPHIC CARTOON STRIP

    5
    PROS CONS
    Try to come up with different
    ways to represent the information
    visually, for example an infographic, DIAGRAM
    a timeline, a cartoon strip, or a
    diagram of parts that work together.

    TIMELINE
    GRAPHIC
    EVENT 1 EVENT 2 EVENT 3 EVENT 4 EVENT 5
    ORGANIZER
    2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

    Work your way up to drawing


    what you know from memory.

    RESEARCH
    Read more about Mayer, R. E., & Anderson, R. B. (1992). The instructive animation: Helping students build
    dual coding as a connections between words and pictures in multimedia learning. Journal of Educational
    study strategy Psychology, 4, 444-452.

    Content by Yana Weinstein (University of Massachusetts Lowell) & Megan Smith (Rhode Island College) | Illustrations by Oliver Caviglioli (teachinghow2s.com/cogsci)
    Funding provided by the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science

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