{"id":4799,"date":"2011-01-24t12:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-24t18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2011-01-24t12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24t18:14:25","slug":"ideas-for-using-visual-thinking-in-the-classroom-from-gradstep-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2011\/01\/ideas-for-using-visual-thinking-in-the-classroom-from-gradstep-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"ideas for using visual thinking in the classroom from gradstep participants"},"content":{"rendered":"

by derek bruff, cft assistant director<\/em><\/p>\n

at the end of my gradstep workshop saturday, “show and tell: using visual thinking in the classroom<\/a>,” i asked participants to doodle their ideas for incorporating visual thinking tools in their teaching on large post-it notes. i then had a few helpers collect these post-its and place them on the board at the front of the room, with ideas that involved student-created visuals at one end and ideas for instructor-created visuals at the other end. i promised the participants that i would share their ideas here on the blog, so here we go…<\/p>\n

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above is the cluster of ideas for student-created visuals<\/strong>. click the picture to see a larger version. participants identified ways to have students create and use concept maps, word trees, flowcharts, timelines, and prezis. for instance, here’s a lesson plan built around a word tree, like this alice in wonderland<\/em> word tree<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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the phrase “adopted volcano” caught my attention in this participant’s idea about using coordinate axes:<\/p>\n

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and this participant was inspired by my post-it activity to try something similar on the topic of constitutional powers:<\/p>\n

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zooming back out, here are the participants’ ideas for instructor-created visuals<\/strong>, including timelines, concept maps, and better powerpoints:<\/p>\n

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i’ll admit that i don’t really understand what some of these post-it notes are meant to convey! for instance:<\/p>\n

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but other participants doodled fairly comprehensive approaches to using visuals. here’s one that rejects boring powerpoint slides for what looks to be prezi:<\/p>\n

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and here’s a plan for a lecture about psychopathy that features multiple visualization tools, including film clips, metaphorical images, and student-created prezis:<\/p>\n

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the post-its placed on the middle of the board were supposed to feature ideas somewhere between student-created and instructor-created<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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as it turned out, there were mostly just cryptic, like this one that clearly represents something interesting:<\/p>\n

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other post-its in the middle of the board seemed to be meditations on the nature of visual thinking, like this lively one:<\/p>\n

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thanks to all the participants for attending the session and sharing their ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by derek bruff, cft assistant director at the end of my gradstep workshop saturday, “show and tell: using visual thinking in the classroom,” i asked participants to doodle their ideas for incorporating visual thinking tools in their teaching on large post-it notes. i then had a few helpers collect these post-its and place them on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":4800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[87],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09153633\/img_0798.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}