I'm not much of a doodler (or is it doodleler?), except of course when I'm extremely bored in a meeting. It's nice to know it has some benefit (remember that teachers!)From Newsweek...
In a victory for absent-minded scribblers everywhere, one study now suggests that doodling can help your memory.
The results, published online Thursday in Applied Cognitive Psychology, suggest that the doodlers actually had better recall: on average they remembered 29 percent more information.
Doodling can be a good thing. If there's a choice between doodling and daydreaming, you're better off if your students are doodling. Of course, it's best if you aren't boring them at all, but doodling isn't necessarily a sign of your students being naughty—it's a sign that it may be hard for them to concentrate without something visual.
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