Visual
Learning Improves:
Performance
Research shows that using visual learning
techniques strengthens skills that improve achievement across
the curriculum.
Critical Thinking
Graphic organizers allow information to
be interconnected verbally and visually, which facilitates
making connections, understanding relationships, and recalling
related details.
Retention
When students record and represent information
both visually and verbally, they are taking advantage of
a learning phenomenon called dual coding. Research
shows when information is encoded in more than one way,
it is more accessible, and retention improves.
Comprehension
When visual learning activities are integrated
into classroom instruction, student comprehension is supported
as new ideas are connected to prior knowledge.
Organization
Using diagrams, students can display large
volumes of information in ways that are comprehensible and
that reveal relationships and patterns. |
