Agile Learning

Show and Tell: Using Visual Thinking in the Classroom on Prezi

• Visual Thinking Teaching Guide – If you like your introduction to visual thinking a bit more text-heavy, check out this teaching guide that my colleague Maria Ebner put together for my first workshop on visual thinking. The guide features a greater variety of visual thinking tools than the above Prezi, with more examples of each, too.
• Learning Styles: Fact and Fiction – Here’s my summary of the 2010 Lilly Conference keynote by Linda Nilson exploring the research on learning styles. The upshot is that there’s not good research evidence for the so-called matching hypothesis, that matching one’s teaching mode to a given student’s “learning style” helps that student learn better. Instead, it’s best to use multiple teaching modes, particularly visual ones since everyone (except for those with visual impairments) is a visual learner.
• A Few Favorite Blogs about Visual Thinking – I’m not the only one interested in this topic, of course. See this post for other great resources.

Visual Engagement Techniques

I’m starting to blog more about particular visual engagement techniques. Here’s a list of the techniques I’ve blogged about thus far.

• Concept Maps
• Coordinate Axes
• Data Visualization
• Debate Maps
• Flow Charts
• Images as Metaphors
• Maps
• Post-It Notes
• Sketchnotes
• Timelines
• Visual Minute Papers
• Word Clouds

I’ve also blogged about Prezi, although that’s more of a tool than a technique.