Objectives & Overview - Creating Graphic Organizers

 Barrier in Brief

Research clearly supports the teaching and learning effectiveness of graphic organizers, including tools such as hierarchies, flow charts, plot graphs, Venn diagrams, concept maps, and visually-structured notes (Marzano, 2001). However, while instructors may recognize the benefits, they do not always have the practical skills to create or have students create graphic organizers, especially with digital media.

 

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• Lesson
• Questions and Comments 

 

 Lesson Overview 

In this lesson, instructors will be exposed to strategies for supporting students who would benefit from information shared for instruction being presented in the form of graphic organizers. Such organizers are often helpful because they showcase information not only in textual form, but in spatial/visual/organizational form. This reflects...

 

 

Regarding checkpoint 3.2, the UDLGuidelines.org says,

"One of the big differences between experts and novices in any domain is the facility with which they distinguish what is critical from what is unimportant or irrelevant. Since experts quickly recognize the most important features in information, they allocate their time efficiently, quickly identifying what is valuable and finding the right “hooks” with which to assimilate the most valuable information into existing knowledge. As a consequence, one of the most effective ways to make information more accessible is to provide explicit cues or prompts that assist individuals in attending to those features that matter most while avoiding those that matter least."

 

 Lesson Objective

By the end of this lesson, instructors should be able to...

• Identify and utilize off-Canvas tools for making and/or instructing students to make graphic organizers that can be shared on Canvas.

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