GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS AS THINKING TECHNOLOGY

Graphic Organizers - are communication tools that uses visual symbols to express knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas, and the relationship between them.

Learning to think is an essential skill needed in education today. When students interact with content, it is important that they actively construct meaning.

Literature supports the use of organizers to facilitate and improve learning outcomes for a wide range of learners. Graphic organizers appear to be a value approach to utilize in teaching and learning.

Graphic organizers are visual representation of knowledge that structures the information by arranging important aspects of a concept or topic in to pattern using labels.

- Bromley, DeVitis and Modlo (1999)Serve as mental tools to help students understand and retain important information and relationships.

- Vygotsky (1962)

Qualities of Graphic Organizers:

• Unlike many tools that have just one purpose, graphic organizers are flexible and endless in application

• They show the order and completeness of a student’s thought process

• Many graphic organizers show different aspects of an issue or problem in close and also the big picture

• Many graphic organizers use short words or phrases

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Help students sequence

informationHelp students organize their thoughts in a logical way

Help students organize

information visually

Help students develop analysis skills to be able

to formulate plans or

processes

Help students evaluate

criteria for decision making

Help students

analyze and prioritize

information

Help students

determine cause-effect

relations

Help students

cluster and brainstorm ideas and

information

Uses of Graphic Organizers

Fishbone Map is used to show the interaction of a complex event or interrelation of ideas and topics

Spider Map is used to describe a central idea: a thing, process, concept, or proposition with support.

T-chart is used to analyze and differences between two things by placing individual characteristics in either the left or right sections.

Venn Diagram is used to analyze similarities and differences between two things, events , people, places or ideas.

Compare and Contrast Matrix is used to show similarities and differences two things.

Evaluating is used to show positive, negative, and interesting attributes of a subject, concept, topic, solution in order to determine the nature of the outcome and whether it will worth continuing or not.

Continuum Scale is used for time lines showing historical events or ages, degrees of something, shades of meaning or rating scales.

Ranking is used when prioritizing elements from most important to least important; relative position or standing, a series of things or persons; or an orderly arrangement.

Cycle is used to show how a series of events interact to produce a set of results again and again.

Bridging Snapshots is used to see changes over time, reveal the sequence of step-by-step methods, illustrate complex processes and show cause and effect.

KWLH help students activate prior knowledge.

Synectics provides an approach to creative thinking that depends on looking at, what appears on surface as, unrelated phenomenon and drawing relevant connections.

Network Tree is used to show casual information or hierarchy or branching procedures.

Cerebral Charts use hierarchies, yet tend to be more free from in the beginning.

Web is used list facts, definitions, attributes, or examples related to a single topic, concept, or theme.

Hypothesize Graphic OrganizersHypothesize is to form the

hypothesis or to assume by hypothesis.

Hypothesis is a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena.

Hypothesis Graphic Organizers

Hypothesis Matrix allows students to identify the three basic components of

most hypotheses.

Problem/Solution Outline is used to show the problem solving process by defining the components of the problem and attempted solutions.

Effective for organizing events in terms of action and reaction.

How to use Graphic Organizers Choose one type of organizer to

introduce to the class. Introduce the concept of a graphic

organizer. Present the chosen graphic organizer

to the class. Model using the graphic organizer to

the class. Guide the class through another

example using the same type of graphic organizer.

Assign an independent exercise that allows students to complete a graphic organizer on their own.

How to Read Graphic Organizers

Start in the center or at the top

Look for arrows

Determine the organizational structure

Consider relationship

Benefits in using graphic organizers

Teachers : Make lesson interactive Help visual learners to acquire

information easily Assess what students know

Students: Understand concepts from part to

whole Improve memory Record relationships

Familiarize yourself with different types of graphic organizers

Explain what and why they are useful

Use in individual, paired and group activities

See effectiveness in the use of graphic organizers

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