QUESTIONS ABOUT CREATING YOUR ONE-PAGER

What’s a one-pager? Is it like a thoughts map or a sketch be aware?

They’re very related. All three mix writing with visible or graphic parts to assist learners have interaction with a textual content.

For our functions, the necessary distinction is that thoughts maps and sketch notes are sometimes used to have interaction with new materials as you’re studying it, whereas one-pagers are used to indicate your understanding of one thing after you could have discovered it. That’s why many lecturers invite college students to thoughts map or sketch be aware as they take heed to a lecture, learn a e-book or watch a movie, whereas one-pagers are generally used as last assessments.

However you’re welcome to borrow concepts and methods from these different types. As an illustration, you could have most likely seen thoughts maps like these that present a central matter or thought, with branches detailing associated info. It’s positive to construction your one-pager like that, so long as you embody the main points we ask for beneath “The Problem,” above.

For more about one-pagers, read this excellent explanation by Betsy Potash in Cult of Pedagogy. We all know that research shows that slowing down and deeply partaking with a textual content helps learners with meaning-making and consolidation of the data. However doing so through each photographs and textual content gives extra advantages:

As college students create one-pagers, the data they put down turns into extra memorable to them as they combine photographs and data. In accordance with Allan Paivio’s dual coding concept, the mind has two methods of processing: the visible and the verbal. The mixture of the 2 results in probably the most highly effective outcomes. College students will bear in mind extra after they’ve combined language and imagery.

The place can I see examples?

First, here is the work of our 2023 winners. Check out the number of matters, the vary of commentary, and the several types of photographs, some performed by hand, some created digitally. By way of our step-by-step guide, you can even see a few of that work used as mentor texts in your personal.

And listed here are 4 extra locations on-line to discover a selection produced by college students throughout:

Lastly, in our step-by-step guide, we’ve included each a few of final 12 months’s winners and some enjoyable examples made by college students in Illinois in 2022. (That they had by no means performed one-pagers earlier than, however had been prepared to assist us out by testing this task earlier than we made it public.)