Graphic Organization

What is a Graphic?

• A Graphic is any electronic representation.• Example: Each keyboard can produce the

alphabet (A-Z) upper and lower case, any combinations of numbers (1.2, 98745612 etc) and over 20 individual punctuations (*#&$).

More on Graphics

• There are many software tools that can assist in organizing these basic characters such as Word, Excel, Power Point and Publisher. Each software has a unique structure to assist with different types of communication.

• Graphics can be organized in many ways, we are often “limited” by the software and technology available to the communicator.

Graphics Continued

• Computers and the internet are full of graphics like pictures, basic images and video. Examples of Classroom uses:– YouTube clip to inspire a lesson– show an image of a scene before describing a

story problem– show the image of a character or person while

discussing their role in a story or history– The possibilities are endless.

Graphic

What is a graphic organizer?

• Graphic Organizers are used to organize thoughts and lessons.

• One popular way to create graphic organizers are using box systems like…

A. B.

C. D.

Draw different types of triangles in box A, rectangles in box B, circles in box C and shapes with 5+ sides in box B.

Graphic Organizers can be very general like the example above or can be very specific like the example below.

Describe Chapter 1 of The Hobbit in structure intro, body, conclusion paragraph. Use the space below to write your final draft and attach any drafts as separate documents.

How can we use graphics and graphic organizers to enhance our study of student learning?

Graphics and graphic organizers are tools to structure/ organize student learning. Just like any tool the graphics or graphic organizers should aid student understanding of key concepts and standards.

Graphic Organizers aide the students ability to articulate knowledge of the first chapter of the Hobbit. The goal is for the student to articulate their knowledge on a piece of fictional writing. Organizers gives students the specific space knowledge.

Graphics can enhance key concepts is to give context like the image of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Graphics and graphic organizers are only limited by the imagination. Many websites are available to aide teachers and students with graphic organizer as study aides and full lessons.

Educational Perspectives

Behaviorist Perspective• Assessing a student from the behaviorist perspective

will focus on observable behaviors.• A behaviorist would want to know what stimulates

the child and what the response to the learner is. • The learning process for the student would often be

externally motivated. • Behaviorists believe in shaping behavior and through

reinforcement. • Behaviorists evoke desired behavior through

modeling and reinforcement.

Behaviorist Views on Learning• Behaviorists views of learning influence

teaching and learning today by asserting behavior that is shaped and stretched through reinforcement and practice promoting the desired behavior.

• The value of this meaningful practice is well documented and used in education. Using this practice assists with many common concrete tasks such as counting numbers and letters of the alphabet, spelling and meaning of many words, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, learning states and capitols.

Cognitive Perspective• A cognitive psychologist would assess a student by

focusing on the change of knowledge and they think of learning as an internal mental process.

• According to cognitivists, we learn by “transforming significant understandings we already have, rather than simple acquisitions written on blank slates.” (Niess, p. 43)

• Cognitive psychologists would allow the child to attempt the task, and then assist by scaffolding (ZPD), with the goal of the child making a connection with the intended task.

Cognitive Views on Learning

• Cognitive Psychologists View influences teaching and learning today by focusing on what the students already know, then branching off form that in order to make the connection.

• When the students become engaged with this they are expanding their personal conceptions about databases, sorting in databases, and data types while establishing new connections among their schemas.