Exploiting Infographics - Developing Critical Thinking
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This document discusses how infographics can be used to develop critical thinking skills. It defines critical thinking as actively evaluating and analyzing information. Infographics are defined as visual representations of information and data. The document then provides many tasks and questions teachers can use with students to analyze infographics and apply critical thinking, such as finding biases, checking sources, creating their own surveys, and more. It aims to show how infographics can be exploited or used to develop important critical thinking abilities in students.
Exploiting Infographics - Developing Critical Thinking
- 1. E X P L O I T I N G I N F O G R A P H I C S - D E V E L O P I N G C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G N I K P E A C H E Y Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 2. Nik Peachey Learning Technology Consultant, Author, Teacher Trainer Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 3. W H AT I S C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G ? Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 4. – “ M I C H A E L S C R I V E N & R I C H A R D PA U L H T T P : / / W W W. C R I T I C A LT H I N K I N G . O R G / PA G E S / D E F I N I N G - C R I T I C A L - T H I N K I N G / 4 1 0 ” “Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.” T H E N AT I O N A L C O U N C I L F O R E X C E L L E N C E I N C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G I N S T R U C T I O N Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
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- 6. W H Y T H I N K C R I T I C A L LY ? • The foundation of informed thought • “Authoritative” and “credible” sources are no longer defined within the library • Anyone can create and share information • Information is and has always been manipulated to control Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
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- 8. E X P L O I T I N G I N F O G R A P H I C S T O D E V E L O P C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G S K I L L S Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
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- 10. W H Y U S E I N F O G R A P H I C S ? • Convey dense information in an easy to read way • Reduce screen reading fatigue • Less language dependent - more accessible to lower levels • Vocabulary rich • More stimulating for visual learners • Images aid understanding of concept and memory • Academic skills of dealing with graphical information • We can use them to encourage critical thinking Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 11. TA S K S F O R I N F O G R A P H I C S I N F O G R A P H I C S Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 12. W H E R E D O Y O U F I T ? I N F O G R A P H I C S Ask your students to find out where they fit in the information. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 13. P E R S O N A L I S AT I O N O F I N F O R M AT I O N I N F O G R A P H I C S You can also use this as a mingle task by asking students to try to find someone in the classroom who fits into any of the same statistics that they do. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 14. FA C T F I N D I N G I N F O G R A P H I C S Ask your students to find x-number of what they believe are the most important or significant facts in the infographic. Get them to justify their choice and explain why these points are the most significant. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 15. I N F O G R A P H I C S T R U E FA L S E S TAT E M E N T S Write true false sentences to check students know what the statistics infer. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 16. TA S K B A S E D I N F O G R A P H I C S This encourages students to think about applying information and making it purposeful for their own lives. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 17. P E E R C R E AT E D T E S T S I N F O G R A P H I C S Give your students an infographic and get them to create a quiz based around it. Once the students have created their quiz they can use it to check the comprehension or knowledge of other students in their class. You can make this competitive and have teams to quiz each other. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 18. C O N V E R T T O W R I T T E N T E X T I N F O G R A P H I C S Ask your students to take notes about the most important information in the infographic and then use the notes to write a summary. The summary could have some form of publication as a motivation, such as a newspaper report website publication. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 19. M A K E A S P O K E N P R E S E N TAT I O N I N F O G R A P H I C S You can ask your students to prepare an oral presentation based on the information they took from the infographic. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 20. C H E C K I N G S O U R C E S I N F O G R A P H I C S Get students to check the sources of any statistics mentioned in an infographic to make sure they are correct and that the sources are valid. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 21. E X P L O R I N G B I A S & M O T I V E I N F O G R A P H I C S http://tinyurl.com/lyoj3bhttp://visual.ly/sixty-years-bombshell Ask the students to find out who created the infographic and why they think it was created. This involves them researching the source and thinking about the relationship between the company that created the graphic and the information in it. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
- 22. PA R A L L E L R E S E A R C H I N F O G R A P H I C S Get students to recreate the research. Think about the questions that were asked to extract the information. Create their own polls and surveys. Nik Peachey | PeacheyPublications.com
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- 28. I N F O G R A P H I C C R E AT I O N TA S K S • Infographic yourself • Convert text to infographic • Fan infographic • Class survey • Social research infographic • Theme infographic • Process infographic • Historical time line • Vocabulary map • Grammar infographic Nik Peachey | Writer | Trainer | Head of Learning - EnglishUp
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