This is the first in a series on using data and infographics in new and creative ways in your classroom. This is a guest post by Dawn-Casey Rowe. My third-grade son is learning charts and graphs. I love charts and graphs–there’s something magical about being able to take information and distill them into a simple …
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This semester I’m teaching preparation courses for high school students who want to study science at Uni, and only 3 of those students are girls (in a class of 25!). I asked these girls why were they the only ones to choose this course (is an elective course) and they told me that other girls …
Infographics are versatile tools that can be a huge help in basically any given field of work or study. They’re catchy, concise, engaging and easy to remember. The trick to it, though, is that sometimes they can turn out totally tumbled up. Common infographic mistakes To put together the best possible template for your particular …
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This is the second time we have a poster competition, and this year’s theme is “The future of neuroscience”. I made an infographic to be posted on social media, because we need to start spreading the word about the contest. The students must make a poster about what they think is the future of neuroscience, …
In this article, we are going to share some of the work that students and teachers created using Easelly. This is an interesting infographic created by a teacher. The colors look great and the message is perfectly clear. One more infographic created by students. The best way to remember the difference between Past Perfect and Present …
Cell signaling is one of the most arid parts of the curriculum this semester, and my students have tons of papers to read of too many different subjects. I decided to be the cool teacher and instead of giving them 4 different papers to read (on top of everything else I already gave them to …
Trying to find technology to describe mathematics is sometimes not easy. I have found that Easel.ly makes a great presentation tool for students to show their mastery of math standards while integrating other subject areas.
With the push on STEM and students collecting all kinds of data, my teacher colleagues often ask for ideas to allow students to present the data in different and more interesting ways. I often share the idea of using an infographic to display the students’ data. Infographics are everywhere! We see them used in TV …
Nowadays, nearly everything about anything can be found online and often in a much more appealing form than what’s typically found at school. Who’d want to pay attention to a drawn-out explanation, copying endless equations off a dusty blackboard, when they could have the essential points presented in plain language with a direct and real-time demonstration (possibly with some funky music in the background), all in a few minutes of a YouTube video?
Who says that sharing information can’t be beautiful, not only useful? Aesthetics in general is a big part of our lives, and we do respond to it consciously or not. The modern age we live in is all about feeding on information – everyone has it at the tip of their fingers.
Being an educator is quite demanding. Even though there are various seminars, classes and books on how to improve your teaching methods and behavior during classes in general, not everything can be explained in this matter.
An educator’s job is getting harder and harder. The fact is that students can find out practically anything within seconds, so providing them with a new piece of information can be quite challenging.
