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Graphic Tools
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Related linksIn our present highly visual world where images on television, billboards, videos, as well as in most publications abound, there has been a related impact on how we teach and learn. Utilizing an increasing variety of ways to reach students of all different learning styles, teachers can help their students to understand complicated concepts and remember them better by helping them to master graphic tools both by hand and on computers.
Mindscaping: A Learning and Thinking Skill for All Students Nancy Margulies
Graphics and Learning Dee Dickinson
Mindmapping and Learning Nancy MarguliesVisual Thinking: Symbolic Ways Of Representing Ideas: A Need For More Symbols Nancy Margulies
Mind-mapping expert discusses how "making ideas visible, using both words and images, means that we are making our very process of thinking visible."Strategic Instruction Model Keith Lenz
The Value of Posters Robert E. Bear
An art teacher describes the values of working poster design into the teaching and learning of many different subjects.Mapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping Nancy Margulies
Visual Thinking: Tools for Mapping Your Ideas Nancy Margulies and Christine Valenza
Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century by Robert. E. Horn
Do2Learn: Go to this website and click on "Get Organized" The tools include math grids, homework charts, and other ways to facilitate learning through the use of graphics.
Visual Learning: Resources (diagrams, suggested reading) for improving thinking skills by using graphics.
Concept Mapping: Knowledge through networking.
The Learning Skills Program: The University of Victoria's Learning Skills program makes a lot of information, including handouts, available online. Each of the topics listed on the home page link to additional resources. Many of the skills discussed are those which use graphic tools. See Concept Mapping for more on the branching technique, and Creating Tables for another type of graphic organizer, for example.
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