Drawing Skills in Anatomy Education and the Millennial Learner: A Cognitive and Metacognitive Viewpoint
Drawing can be a useful tool to elicit student thinking and is a widely-used method for communicating scientific ideas. The task of drawing requires students to identify and recall necessary pieces of information they assimilated over a period of time and construct a mental model. However, millennia...
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doaj-60e8714283d74fb2bc39373f6e1029f12020-11-24T21:11:51ZengTabriz University of Medical SciencesResearch and Development in Medical Education2322-27192019-06-0181586010.15171/rdme.2019.010rdme-31705Drawing Skills in Anatomy Education and the Millennial Learner: A Cognitive and Metacognitive ViewpointDinesh Kumar0Ramakrishnan Rajprasath1Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, IndiaDepartment of Anatomy, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, IndiaDrawing can be a useful tool to elicit student thinking and is a widely-used method for communicating scientific ideas. The task of drawing requires students to identify and recall necessary pieces of information they assimilated over a period of time and construct a mental model. However, millennial generation learners, owing to their immersion in 3D technologies,lack interest in practicing and learning from diagrams. This impairs learning and retention of visually-oriented subjects. In this perspective, we reflect on the cognitive and meta cognitive processes associated with drawing to emphasize the important role of drawing in present day anatomy education.https://rdme.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/rdme-31705DrawingImaginationMillennial generationMetacognitionPsychomotor |
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Drawing Skills in Anatomy Education and the Millennial Learner: A Cognitive and Metacognitive Viewpoint |
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Drawing Skills in Anatomy Education and the Millennial Learner: A Cognitive and Metacognitive Viewpoint |
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Drawing Skills in Anatomy Education and the Millennial Learner: A Cognitive and Metacognitive Viewpoint |
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Drawing Skills in Anatomy Education and the Millennial Learner: A Cognitive and Metacognitive Viewpoint |
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Drawing Skills in Anatomy Education and the Millennial Learner: A Cognitive and Metacognitive Viewpoint |
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drawing skills in anatomy education and the millennial learner: a cognitive and metacognitive viewpoint |
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Tabriz University of Medical Sciences |
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Research and Development in Medical Education |
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2322-2719 |
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2019-06-01 |
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Drawing can be a useful tool to elicit student thinking and is a widely-used method for communicating scientific ideas. The task of drawing requires students to identify and recall necessary pieces of information they assimilated over a period of time and construct a mental model. However, millennial generation learners, owing to their immersion in 3D technologies,lack interest in practicing and learning from diagrams. This impairs learning and retention of visually-oriented subjects. In this perspective, we reflect on the cognitive and meta cognitive processes associated with drawing to emphasize the important role of drawing in present day anatomy education. |
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Drawing Imagination Millennial generation Metacognition Psychomotor |
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