Visualising Thinking with Online Tools

ICT for visualising thinking This dimension of ICT can be addressed with an array of online tools. Develop your students’ ability to represent their thinking graphically with these engaging tools. Develop your students’ ability to represent their thinking graphically with these engaging tools. In this session we will explore Intel’s thinking tools, online graphic organisers and online concept mapping software.

Class Tools

Interactive Graphic Organisers

Webspiration

Bubbl.us

Mind Mapping & Brainstorming Tools

Visual Ranking Tool Analysing and Evaluating Information Identify and refine criteria for assigning ranking to a list; and then debate differences, reach consensus, and organize ideas.

These project examples, developed by teachers from a wide range of grade levels and subject areas, use the Visual Ranking Tool to promote critical thinking and spark classroom discussions. The Role of Friends: Do actions speak louder than words? Grades 2-4, Language Arts After the teacher reads aloud the classic story of Charlotte's Web, students analyse the plot and characters to consider the key qualities of friendship. Using Visual Ranking, they rank which of Wilbur's friends play the most important role in keeping him alive. Then they go on to consider roles that friends play in their own lives. Human Migration: How has human experience changed over time? Grades 3-5, Social Studies Students explore reasons and rationale behind migration of different groups throughout American history and communicate findings in a timeline. Relocation events in their personal and family histories are shared in a parallel timeline. The Visual Ranking Tool helps students compare and discuss ideas to answer the question, Why do people migrate? Classify Animals: Does everything have its place? Grades 5-8, Biology As an introduction to scientific classification, this unit first has students devise their own animal classification system. Next, they learn about the classification system developed by Linnaeus. Visual Ranking is used early in the unit to help students find out what they already know (and need to know) about classification systems. Later, the tool is used to assess how well students have grasped and can apply the concept of scientific classification. Impact of Inventions: How does change impact our lives? Grades 5-8, Social Studies Everything changes in our world. In this unit, students understand how inventions have shaped our world today and continue to influence the future. Visual Ranking helps students evaluate the impact of significant inventions, determine which inventions to research, and compare their rankings to other groups. Career Choices: How do people make important choices in their lives? Grades 7-12, Social Studies, Career Exploration This unit encourages students to think critically about career choices and job satisfaction, and understand that the factors affecting different occupations may change over time. By becoming their own career counsellor, students use Visual Ranking to help themselves evaluate criteria that shape career choices, focus their research, and develop a framework for investigating careers of interest. The Role of Friends Human Migration Classify Animals Impact of Inventions Career Choices

Units containing visual ranking projects Project Name: Grow a Business Question: Which flower(s) should we sell for Mother's Day? Consider price, profit, and popularity as you rank them. Project Name: Designing a School Playground Question: How do we create a playground that is safe and enjoyable for everyone? Rank the following items from most to least essential in achieving a playground that meets this goal. Project Name: What are the Chances? Question: Which of the events are more likely to occur and why? Project Name: Community Decisions Question: How can we make our community a better place? What uses of the vacant lot would be most beneficial?

Seeing Reason Tool Mindful Mapping of Cause and Effect Investigate relationships in complex systems, creating maps that communicate understanding. As a factor increases: blue lines indicate increase in the effect, and red lines indicate decrease in the effect

These project examples, developed by teachers, use the Seeing Reason Tool to promote critical thinking and spark classroom discussions. Habitat Conflict: How can we all live together? Grade 5-7, Science Students study the conflicting needs of humans and animals when habitats overlap. They research the habitat conflict between bears and humans and use the Seeing Reason Tool to analyze the issue, then summarize their conclusions, and write a recommendation for ensuring the health of the species. Habitat Conflict

Units containing seeing reason projects Project Name: Getting Along Question: What affects students getting along on the playground? Project Name: Charlotte's Web Question: How do the personality traits of the characters in Charlotte’s Web affect their actions and Wilbur’s safety? Project Name: Road Safety Question: What causes roads to be unsafe? Project Name: Bridges Question: What factors influence bridge strength? Project Name: Ecology Explorers: Overlapping Habitats Question: What happens when human and animal habitats overlap?

Showing Evidence Tool Analysing and Evaluating Information Construct well-reasoned arguments that are supported by evidence, using a visual framework.

Creating a project Go to Select the tool you want to use Go to the teacher workspace and register

Trial a project as a student Go to D=en D=en or Google Intel student login cathybl Given name