Activity Structures: "Drag
and Drop"
Definition: A method of visual sequencing and association
- graphical ways of working with ideas and presenting information. Visual learning
is one of the best methods for teaching thinking skills. Visual learning techniques
teach students to process, organize and prioritize new information. Visual diagrams
reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies while stimulating
creative thinking.
Advantages for use in the classroom:
- Help students clarify thinking by seeing how
ideas are connected and
realize how information can be grouped or organized.
- Students recreate, graphically, what they've
learned. This helps them absorb and
internalize new information.
- Integrate new knowledge and build on prior knowledge
and
internalize new information helping facts and ideas fit together.
- Can easily correct misconceptions.
Disadvantages:
- The process is difficult to recreate without
an electronic device.
Examples: