Visual thinking
The document discusses visual thinking as an approach to education that allows students to lead their own learning. Visual thinking involves combining students' ideas and making them visible and understandable. It also lets students participate by providing their knowledge and applying experiences to tasks and topics taught by educators, rather than simply explaining theories. The goal is for students to take ownership of their learning process. Visual thinking is a research-based approach that enhances students' thinking skills and self-motivation to learn by integrating mental models and challenging perspectives. It allows students to contribute ideas from their prior knowledge and be problem solvers. The benefits of visual thinking in the classroom include gaining better perspectives, emphasizing opinions, encouraging thinking, improving quality of interaction, supporting new ways
Visual thinking
- 1. <br /> VISUAL THINKING<br /> INTRUDUCTION<br /> <br />To evaluate and analyze visual thinking as a new approach to make students work by themselves and lead their own learning. The main idea is to combine students’ ideas to make them visible, and understandable for every single learner who is trying to take advantage of their knowledge based on specific topics. Students can participate providing their knowledge and apply experiences based on the contents to be taught by educators. The main goal is not giving students a full explanation about the theory or a guideline procedure, but to let students take their learning process while they apply their knowledge or when tasks are being developed.<br /> What is Visual thinking?<br />Visual thinking is a research based approach, focused on abilities, attitudes and alertness, which purpose is to enhance students’ personality not only to develop students thinking skills but to integrate those skills to have a better input and a self-motivation to learn new contents given in the classroom. It establishes a positive dialogue and challenge of mental models for new perspectives. Visual thinking allows students to join their learning environment when they provide general or specific ideas based on their previous knowledge related to the topics using their creativity. A remarkable concern to develope and know topics is built inside learner´s attitude so that they become a problem solver of his societal needs. A Visual thinking scenario can be applied when the Educator is brainstorming students ideas and he/she implements an action plan using those ideas to be developed by the students in their learning process context.<br /> <br />The benefits of the use of visual thinking Visual Thinking in the classroom<br />It helps gain better perspectives<br />It leads to emphasizing opinions<br />It Is encouraging<br />It makes learners think<br />It improves quality and interaction <br />It supports new ways of exchanging ideas<br />It applies critical issues and increases options<br />