![]() In the history classroom we are always developing visual literacy. David McCandless in the opening to his TED talk, The Beauty of Data Visualization ![]() Failing that, visualized information can just look really cool. ![]() So, visualizing information, so that we can see the patterns and connections that matter and then designing that information so it makes more sense, or it tells a story, or allows us to focus only on the information that’s important. And the good news is there might be an easy solution to that, and that’s using our eyes more. It feels like we’re all suffering from information overload or data glut. Let us know if you’ve done an infographics project yourself, and consider writing in to our new Great Ideas From Our Readers feature to tell us about it. It is elaborate, I was impressed by how rich and thoughtful the unit was, and felt Learning Network readers might be as well. Her three-week process, which she both describes broadly and details step-by-step below, seemed to me like something many teachers could learn from and/or adapt. This spring, Diana and her students used the Gulf oil spill as the starting point for creating infographics to tell the stories of the top ten worst man-made environmental disasters in American history. Inquiry-driven learning is not dependent on technology.” Project-based high school utilizing a 1:1 laptop program to foster 21st century learning.”ĭiana acknowledges that though the ready access to technology at a school like hers is a clear advantage, she spent eleven years in schools where access was limited - and she believes that “effective project-based, The school describes itself as an “inquiry-driven, She currently works at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, which is a partnership high school between the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute. To close Infographics Week here on The Learning Network, I invited a classroom teacher (and self-described “fanatic”Ībout the use of infographics in education) to detail a project I first heard her talk about on a National Writing Project-affiliated podcast called “Teachers Teaching Teachers.”ĭiana Laufenberg has been a public school social studies teacher for the last thirteen years, eight at the middle school level and five in high school. From left to right, the students are Ryan Francis, Luna Frank-Fischer, and Kern Clarke. Devon Thomas Students in Diana Laufenberg’s 11th grade history class discuss the infographics they created in a three-week project on environmental disasters. ![]()
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