Dual Coding
📋 What it is
Using words AND pictures together — your brain has two channels, so fill both.
🗣️ Coach says
Your brain has a word-channel and a picture-channel. Use only words and half your brain is idle. Add a quick sketch or diagram and BOTH channels remember.
🧠 Memory hook
Words + pictures = two roads to the same memory. Draw it AND say it.
😂 Giggle
Why did the doodle end up on the study notes?
Because a quick sketch helps ideas stick — words plus pictures!
😲 Whoa!
A messy little doodle you drew yourself beats a perfect picture someone gave you — because drawing it made your brain build it.
✅ Quick check: You’re memorizing the water cycle. What’s a dual-coding move?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Draw a quick labelled diagram (sun, arrows, cloud, rain) AND say the steps — words + picture together.
Filling both the word and picture channels gives you two ways to recall it.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Take one idea from today and draw the fastest possible sketch of it. Stick figures welcome — the drawing is the point.