Numerous people doodle. Children in school, teachers in meetings, parents at work. Doodling is used to keep focused.
When a teacher sits in front of a classroom to discuss a topic, it tends to turn into a lecture. Students begin to fall asleep, text on cell phones, daydream about the weekend, and doodle. Idealistically the student is actively listening to every word the teacher is saying. This rarely happens. Children today are increasingly being diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. They simply cannot focus their attention for that long. Doodling provides a way to focus without distracting the mind. “Doodling is accomplished during mindless sketching or aimless drawing while the doodler's attention is focused elsewhere.”
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I doodle like crazy during every class, like so many others. As a teacher I'm sure it can be discouraging standing up there, pouring your heart and soul into a lecture, and you look out, and everyone is doodling. That would make me crazy, because it shows that you're hearing the words. But, are you paying attention? I know that when I doodle, I tend to drift into another world, and get lost in my doodles. I have found that during intriguing or especially difficult classes, my doodling tends to dwindle. Yet, in history and english, I think I had a pretty good handle on them so I doodled my day away. This has not apparently affected my grade in a negative way. In other classes where I needed to focus like math, there is no doodle in sight except for the graphs that we have to draw. Also, from the teacher's standpoint, I would rather have a class of doodlers, than a class of texters because at least they aren't involved in another conversation elsewhere.
One some days I think doodling helps me block out thought in my head that are far from school realated, and then spirals off into getting me to pay attention to the teacher. Sure it look's like i'm bored, but that's because I am. I still however manage to remember those little facts that make up our next test and jokes that rarely connect to the lesson. On the other hand there are days when I cannot filter out my problems and by doodling I just become more involved or space out entirely. One minute we're watching youtube videos and the next there's a page of notes I've missed. For the most part i think it depends on the doodler themselves.
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