ABSTRACT
Learning Illustrated calls on students to use essentially nonverbal means to show that they have learned a concept, skill, procedure, or other content. An innovative twist on Learning Illustrated is to ask students at the end of a lesson to draw a picture, make a flow chart, construct a diagram, create a map, or complete some other graphic rendering of the lesson. Frieda Jacobi is the librarian at her elementary school. She took on the Learning Illustrated challenge schoolwide. As time goes by, teachers increasingly rely on writing skills as a way of knowing what students know and feel, and decreasingly on student pictorial representation. If students in a mathematics class are studying probability, then a task might be to make an area map of possible outcomes in a given situation, or to draw a probability tree representing the same information.
