Infographic creation (data visualization) encourages:
Students must organize research
Display knowledge mastery
Students must have a clear understanding of the content area and the data in order to create an effective infographic.
MOVE BEYOND CONSUMPTION TO CREATION
Students will be using Research, Organizational, Visual Literacy & Presentation skills to create a successful infographic:
Infographic Rubric
Topic Selection
Information Objects
Data display type
Data visualization format
Fonts / Color / Layout
Organization
Sources
Infographic Rubric
used with the permission
of Kathy Schrock
Lesson & assessment rubric
from Springfield High School (PA)
Infographic Rubric
created by Tim White
Stem Literacy through Infographics
As a student strategy, infographics provide an easy-to-read assessment of knowledge and understanding. They offer a vehicle for asking provocative questions, for telling a story, and for taking a stand. They ask learners to create meaningful visual metaphors by drawing connections among data sets, by illuminating numbers to present context, and to make sense of information overload. As an assessment, they are a true problem-solving activity inspiring learners to pull together skills from across disciplines–in math, art, technology, social studies, and more.
Tag Team Tech April 2012 | VOYA by Joyce Valenza
Note: webpage temporarily down.
Constructivist Learning Theory:
"Learning should be constructed in a manner enabling students to have more active role to discover, understand, interpret information and use it for its intended purpose rather than acquiring knowledge in a passive way. This way of learning is considered to be close to the constructivist learning theory which is based on the internal construction of information with respect to the experiences of the individual"
Banu Inanc yan Dur, "Data Visualization and Infographics In Visual Communication Design Education at The Age of Information." Link
"Teaching kids to create their own infographics — to break down complex information, then use image, symbol and text to communicate it attractively and effectively — is the other, but it’s not easy. It pushes students outside their normal, comfortable “school” reading-and-writing habits, but it gives them practice in the ultimate 21st century skill: telling stories with data. In my experience, it also causes the new information they’ve researched and communicated to “stick.”"
Katherine Schulten. "Teaching with Infographics: A Student Project Model." New York Times Learning Network, August 27, 2010. LINK
Compare and contrast the display of information. What is easier to decode? What is more engaging?
graphic created by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Click to see the original on her website GloballyConnectedLearning.com
Fanguy, Will. "Piktochart in the Classroom: Infographics in Education," Piktochart. LINK
"Infographics." Creative Educator. LINK
Jaeger, Paige. "Is a Picture Worth $2,500?: Understand Facts Visually," The School LIbrary Journal, August 11, 2012. LINK
Kraus, Jane. "More Than Words Can Say," Learning & Leading with Technology," February 2012, p. 10-14. LINK
Magno, Jonna Mae, "How to Use Infographics in High School Classrooms," Venngage Blog, April 17, 2015. https://venngage.com/blog/how-to-use-infographics-in-high-school-classrooms/ LINK
Schulten, Katherine. "Teaching with Infographics: A Student Project Model." New York Times Learning Network, August 27, 2010. LINK
Valenza, Joyce. "Infographics as an Infolit Product," School Library Journal, June 29, 2011. LINK
yan Dur, Banu Inanc. "Data Visualization and Infographics In Visual Communication Design Education at The Age of Information." Journal of Arts and Humanities. v.3, 2014. p,39-50. LINK.
StX Faculty: Contact jdonahue@stxavier.org for full text of articles if live links are not posted.
Lamb, G. R., Polman, J. L., Newman, A., and Graville Smith, C.. "Science news infographics: Teaching students to gather, interpret, and present information graphically," The Science Teacher, v.8, 2014. LINK
Lamb, R., Newman, A., & Polman, J. L.. "How infographics transformed my class," Science Communication, v.1, 2014, p. 1.
Polman, J. L., & Gebre, E.. "Towards Critical Appraisal of Infographics as Scientific Inscriptions," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v.52, 2015, p. 868-893. doi:10.1002/tea.21225
(2015) Infographics and Mathematics: A Mechanism for Effective Learning in the Classroom, PRIMUS, 26:2, 158-167. LINK
