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Our brains are wired to rapidly make sense of and remember visual input. Visualizations in the form of diagrams, charts, drawings, pictures, and a variety of other ways can help students understand complex information. A well-designed visual image can yield a much more powerful and memorable learning experience than a mere verbal or textual description. Below you’ll find resources for integrating visual thinking in your teaching. You’ll find ideas for enhancing your presentations and for incorporating visual thinking in your students’ in- and out-of-class activities. On March 17, 2010, the CFT hosted a workshop on this topic. Here’s the Prezi that CFT staff Derek Bruff and Maria Ebner used to give participants in the workshop an overview of some visual thinking tools of potential use: For more notes from the workshop, as well as ideas participants generated during the workshop, see the bottom of this page.
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Notes from March 2010 WorkshopDuring the workshop, graphic facilitator Peter Durand captured the presentation and discussion on a virtual white board. Click on the images below for larger versions. At the end the workshop, participants were asked to identify visual tools discussed in the workshop they wanted to try out in their teaching. Participants shared their ideas in words and pictures. Below you’ll find a few examples. Click on an image to see a larger version. This teaching guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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