Visual
learning techniques help students:
• Clarify thinking. Students see how ideas are connected and
realize how information can be grouped or organized. With visual learning, new
concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.
Reinforce
understanding. Students
recreate, in their own words, what they've learned. This helps them absorb and
internalize new information, giving them ownership of their ideas.
Integrate
new knowledge. Diagrams
updated throughout a lesson prompt students to build upon prior knowledge and internalize
new information. By reviewing diagrams created previously, students see how facts and ideas fit
together.
Identify
misconceptions. Just as a
concept map or web shows what students know, misdirected links or wrong connections reveal
what they don't understand.
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