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Trainer: Nik Peachey

Exploiting Infographics for Language Practice and Critical Thinking

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Nik Peachey

Learning Technology Consultant

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Director - PeacheyPublications

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Webinar Dos and Donts

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem"

What is critical thinking?

The National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking Instruction

Michael Scriven & Richard Paul

“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.”

Why is critical thinking important?

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  • 'Authoritative' and 'credible' sources are no longer defined within the library
  • Anyone can create and share information that 'looks' real
  • Improve your choices & decision making
  • Information is and has always been manipulated

Why Think critically

Exploiting Infographics

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Information represented in visual form using graphics and text.

What's an Infographic?

Why Infographics in ELT?

"Dealing with graphical information is an academic skill"

"Vocabulary rich"

"Images aid understanding of concept and memory "

"Reduce screen reading fatigue"

"More stimulating for visual learners"

"Less language-dependent - easier for lower levels"

"We can use them to encourage critical thinking"

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"They convey dense information in an easy to read way"

Teacher

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  • Explore existing knowledge and assumptions
  • Examine information
  • Research its reliability
  • Carry out independent research
  • Examine how it applies to your life

My Lesson Plans

Approach

Tasks for Exploiting Infographics

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.

Breakfast Arround the World

Fact Finding

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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.

10 Coolest Spaceships

Peer Created Quiz

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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.

Men Vs Woman

Research & fact-checking

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You can get students to find out where they fit within any infographics that contain personal information. 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.

What are your sleeping habits?

Find yourself

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Write true false sentences for students check

50 Language facts

True - False statements

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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.

60 Years since the bombshell

Start with why

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This encourages students to think about applying information and making it purposeful for their own lives. Encouraging a personal response from students can also make the lessons more meaningful and memorable for them.

Paris vs London

Personal response

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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.

Women in leadership

Convert to report

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You can ask your students to prepare an oral presentation based on the information they took from the infographic.

Water matters

Make a presentation

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Give students practical information they can use.

How Not to Look Ugly on a Webcam

Use the Information

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Find and save infographics and get suggestions for similar ones

Lots of information about data visualisation and infographics

Get a new infographic in your inbox each day

Educational infographics

Pinterest

Cool Infographics

Daily Infographics

e-Learning Infographics

The easiest way to find infographics for a specific topic is to use Google - keyword + Infographic

Infographic Sources

Creating Infograpics

Visme

Another great freemium tool that also includes templates for interactive digital books.

Canva

A great freemium tool for creating dynamic infographics, games, posters and presentations.

Genial.ly

A great freemium tool for creating dynamic infographics, games, posters and presentations.

Draw.io

This is a great free tool for creating small graphics, flowcharts and diagrams. Download it and use it on your desktop.

You can create your own infographics and dynamic content using these tools or you can get students to use them to create graphics.

Exploiting Infographic Tools

Creation Tools

  1. Infographic yourself
  2. Convert text to infographic
  3. Fan infographic
  4. Class survey
  5. Social research infographic
  6. Theme infographic
  7. Process infographic
  8. Historical time line
  9. Vocabulary map
  10. Grammar infographic

Get students creating infographics

10 Creation tasks

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