Exploiting Infographics - Developing Critical Thinking

E X P L O I T I N G I N F O G R A P H I C S -
D E V E L O P I N G C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G
N I K P E A C H E Y
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Nik Peachey
Learning Technology Consultant,
Author, Teacher Trainer

W H AT I S C R I T I C A L
T H I N K I N G ?

– “ M I C H A E L S C R I V E N & R I C H A R D PA U L
H T T P : / / W W W. C R I T I C A LT H I N K I N G . O R G / PA G E S /
D E F I N I N G - C R I T I C A L - T H I N K I N G / 4 1 0 ”
“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.”
T H E N AT I O N A L C O U N C I L F O R E X C E L L E N C E I N C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G
I N S T R U C T I O N

W H Y I S I T S O
I M P O RTA N T ?

W H Y T H I N K C R I T I C A L LY ?
• The foundation of informed thought
• “Authoritative” and “credible” sources are no
longer deﬁned within the library
• Anyone can create and share information
• Information is and has always been manipulated to
control

" R E - E X A M I N E A L L Y O U H AV E
B E E N T O L D AT S C H O O L O R
C H U R C H O R I N A N Y B O O K ,
D I S M I S S W H AT E V E R I N S U LT S
Y O U R O W N S O U L , "
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E X P L O I T I N G
I N F O G R A P H I C S T O
D E V E L O P C R I T I C A L
T H I N K I N G S K I L L S

W H AT ’ S A N I N F O G R A P H I C ?
http://tinyurl.com/d8dzrua

W H Y U S E I N F O G R A P H I C S ?
• Convey dense information in an easy to read way
• Reduce screen reading fatigue
• Less language dependent - more accessible to
lower levels
• Vocabulary rich
• More stimulating for visual learners
• Images aid understanding of concept and memory
• Academic skills of dealing with graphical
information
• We can use them to encourage critical thinking

TA S K S F O R
I N F O G R A P H I C S

W H E R E D O
Y O U F I T ?
Ask your students to find
out where they fit in the
information.

P E R S O N A L I S AT I O N
O F I N F O R M AT I O N
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.

FA C T F I N D I N G
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.

T R U E FA L S E
S TAT E M E N T S
Write true false
sentences to check
students know what
the statistics infer.

TA S K B A S E D
This encourages students
to think about applying
information and making it
purposeful for their own
lives.

P E E R C R E AT E D
T E S T S
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.

C O N V E R T T O
W R I T T E N T E X T
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.

M A K E A
S P O K E N
P R E S E N TAT I O N
You can ask your
students to prepare an
oral presentation
based on the
information they took
from the infographic.

C H E C K I N G
S O U R C E S
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.

E X P L O R I N G
B I A S & M O T I V E
http://tinyurl.com/lyoj3bhttp://visual.ly/sixty-years-bombshell
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.

PA R A L L E L
R E S E A R C H
Get students to recreate
the research. Think about
the questions that were
asked to extract the
information. Create their
own polls and surveys.

C R E AT E R E S E A R C H
S U R V E Y S A N D P O L L S
https://www.typeform.com/

C R E AT E R E S E A R C H
S U R V E Y S A N D P O L L S
https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/

P R E S E N T I N G R E S E A R C H

D R A W. I O
C R E AT E I N F O G R A P H I C S
https://www.draw.io/

G E N I A L . LY
C R E AT I N G I N F O G R A P H I C S
https://www.genial.ly/

I N F O G R A P H I C C R E AT I O N TA S K S
• Infographic yourself
• Convert text to infographic
• Fan infographic
• Class survey
• Social research infographic
• Theme infographic
• Process infographic
• Historical time line
• Vocabulary map
• Grammar infographic
Nik Peachey | Writer | Trainer | Head of Learning - EnglishUp

I N F O G R A P H I C S O U R C E S
• http://elearninginfographics.com/
• http://dailyinfographic.com/
• http://www.coolinfographics.com/
• http://infographicworld.com/
• Search on any search engine

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