{"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 <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n the phrase “adopted volcano” caught my attention in this participant’s idea about using coordinate axes:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n and this participant was inspired by my post-it activity to try something similar on the topic of constitutional powers:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n zooming back out, here are the participants’ ideas for instructor-created visuals<\/strong>, including timelines, concept maps, and better powerpoints:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n i’ll admit that i don’t really understand what some of these post-it notes are meant to convey! for instance:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n 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 <\/a><\/p>\n as it turned out, there were mostly just cryptic, like this one that clearly represents something interesting:<\/p>\n