Learner Considerations
The learners that I am focusing on are grade 9 English students, but the resource is meant for colleagues to help them teach with infographics. This resource will be both information for the teacher and, possibly, a new medium to learn from for the students.
Colleagues
I am hoping that with this resource, my colleagues will feel better about using an unfamiliar medium. I am hoping that with the curricular connections and the delivery suggestions within the resource, my colleagues will find it easier to use infographics in their classrooms. Within the slide presentation, each infographic will be located on its own with the following slide the curricular connection and some suggestions on what to ask, how to use, or even explaining the infographic (if needed). I will also include a slide on what information is usually included in infographics, a how-to teach with infographic slide, a how to develop your own infographics, a review on a site that you can produce infographics on. Hopefully, this will help my colleagues feel more comfortable including these in their everyday teaching.
Students
With this resource, I hope that my colleagues can successfully teach their students how to read an infographic, recognize the amount of information available from an infographic, and realize that they can utilize this presentation type for future projects. It is also a different medium for many students and it may get them a little more interested in the topic of study because it is a new way of look at and for information.
Facing Challenges
One of the challenges that I have started to come up across is finding infographics to connect to a specific curriculum competency or content piece. It may be easier to connect them to a theme, but then I would be assuming that all teachers in all districts are teaching the same themes throughout my audience. I can easily do this for my personal school but that doesn't help make this resource relevant outside of LMS. Hopefully, things will come together and I will find a way around my little hitch!
On the Lighter Side!
Here is a comic for all those teachers back to school after Spring Break...hang in there, only Aprimajune left!
(https://www.boredteachers.com/comics/funny-comics-capture-teacher-life)
Good checkin post on your progress, goals and very importantly, your audience's needs. You did a good job outlining what you anticipate your colleagues, peers and fellow educators would need or require to implement and utilize more infographics in their practice. A good design choice to have the infographics with follow up slides for implementation and understanding. You are so right to discuss the challenge of finding very specific infographics about topics, but this could also be an opportunity to learn how to make an infographic. I have students create surivival guides to go along with the novel study "Life of Pi" using Google Slides (see helpful website here: https://mariapeaglerdigital.com/create-an-infographic-using-nothing-but-google-slides/ ). Overall, a good checkin on your progress.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog post and love your final project theme. I feel as though students (and adults too actually) need some direct teaching about how to effectively decipher infographics - especially in the age of COVID 19 where there is so much disinformation and misleading information available at the click of a mouse. I'm wondering if you're planning on including infographics around this relevant topic? Your blog post also got me thinking about the obvious connection between infographics and misinformation. Are you planning on including some misleading infographics as examples of why it is so important to read the infographics well and use some critical thinking skills? Best of luck in your final project!
ReplyDeleteThese are some wonderful things to consider, Suzanne, thank you. I am planning to include how to read and how to make infographics, but I didn't consider the misinformation aspect. I will think on it!
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