Making Sense of of Visual Learning? With Doug Neill - Episode 42

The Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast is your opportunity to wake up from your slumber and reclaim control as the dominant conscious force in your life. Today's episode Makes Sense of visual learning. This episode is available on both Apple and Spotify Platforms. Are you like me and enjoy and gain value from the visual component of learning? Perhaps from a White Board Instruction or any visual aids to help the information sink in? Our Guest, Doug Neill is the owner and creator of Verbal To Visual. Doug Neill helps people make sense of the world by making marks on the page. After training to become a high school teacher he got pulled into the world of visual thinking and in 2014 he founded Verbal to Visual where he teaches people how to sketch out simple drawings and diagrams as a learning, problem-solving, and storytelling tool. Doug loves to spread the word about the power of visual thinking through hand-sketched videos, online courses, and live workshops and talks. His favorite way to put these skills to use himself is by creating visual summaries of interesting books. Makes Sense Academy: Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about Connect with Doug Neill: Website: https://verbaltovisual.com IG: @dougneill MENTIONED RESOURCES: DIGITAL MINIMALISM VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJdZ7kmA2QQ Doodlers Unite - Sunni Brown Ted Talk https://ed.ted.com/lessons/doodlers-unite-sunni-brown Connect WIth Dr. JC Doornick “The Dragon” https://zez.am/makessense Episode Highlights 0:00 - Intro 5:22 - How did you get started with verbal to visual learning? 11:12 - Does the School System need to make learning more visual? 12:37 - What’s the science that backs the value of visual learning and Dual Coding 22:04 - How does one learn how to learn how to interpret verbal to visual? 28:36 - What would that idea or book look like? 29:29 - How do you video yourself doodling? 41:14 - How would you draw and explain the idea of Making Sense? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.