Graphic Organizers as Thinking Technology

By: Geneve Loraine D. CruzBSEd III- B

Why Graphic Organizers?What do effective educators had to learn to enhance students understanding and retention of lessons taken in class?

Learning to think is an essential skill needed in education today. Often educators use teaching methods where students are passive learners. Difficulty arises when students must make meaning out information taken from a book, video , or a lecture. When students interact with content, it is important that they actively construct meaning.

Graphic Organizers Are mental maps that involve

students in active thinking through representation of key skills such as sequencing, comparing and contrasting, and classifying. (Burke 129)

What are the uses of Graphic organizers?

Graphic organizers

Help students sequence

information Help students organize their thoughts in a logical way

Help students cluster and

brainstorm ideas

Help students determine cause-

effect relationship

Help students organize

information visually

Help students organize

Help students analyze and prioritized

information Help students evaluate criteria

for decision making

Types Uses ExamplesStar/ Web Use to show definitions, attributes,

examples and brainstorming.Fishbone Map, Spider Web

Chart/ Matrix Use to show attributes, comparing, and contrasting and evaluating.

T-Chart, Venn Diagram, Compare- contrast Matrix, PMI, Continuum Scale, Ranking,

KWLH, SynecticsTree/ Map Use to show classifications, pedigrees,

analysis of structures, attributes, examples and brainstorming.

Network Tree, cerebral Chart, Questions, Categories, Hypothesis Matrix.

Chain Use to show processes, sequences, causes and effects, and chronology.

Series of events Chain, Bridging Snapshots, Human Interactions, Outline, Time Sequence

Pattern.Sketch Use to show physical Structures,

descriptions of places, spatial relationships, concrete objects and visual images.

Types, Uses, and Examples of Graphic Organizers

And Graphic organizers take on many different looks……

RESULTCause 1 Detail

Cause 2

Cause 3Cause 4

Detail

FISHBONE MAP

It is use to show the interaction of a complex event or complex phenomenon.

Topic Concept Theme

Main Idea Detail

SPIDER MAP

Is used to describe a central idea: a thing, process, concept or proposition.

Sounds Like

Looks Like

T- chart

It is used to analyze similarities and differences between two things(people, places, events, ideas, etc.

Venn Diagram

It is used to analyze similarities and differences between two things(people, places, events, ideas, etc. By placing individual characteristics in either the left or right sections, and similar Common characteristics within the overlapping section.

Attitude 1

Attitude 2

Attitude 3

Name 1 Name 2

Compare- Contrast MatrixIt is used to analyze similarities and differences between two things.Key frame questions:What are being compared?How are they similar?How are they different?

P+

M-

I?

PMI

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

LOW HIGH

Continuum Scale

1

2

3

Ranking

Is use for time lines showing historical events or ages etc.

Is use when prioritizing elementsFrom most important to leastImportant; relative position or standing, a series of things or persons; or an orderly arrangement.

Is use to show how a series of events.

Is use to see changes over time,reveal the sequence of step-by-step methods, illustrate complex processes and show cause and effect.

Help the students activate prior knowledge. It is a group activity that serves as a model for active thinking during reading.

Provides an approach to creative thinking that depends on looking at.

It is use to show causal information or hierarchy

or branching procedures.

Use hierarchies, yet tend to be more free

form

Topic Concept Theme

Fact

Web

Is use to list facts, definitions, attributes,

examples, related to a single topic,

concept or theme.

Allows you to identify the three basic components

of most hypothesis.

Good? Bad?

1

2

3

1

2

3

Questions

Hypothesizing is used to list a set of questions.

Hypothesize Graphic Organizer

1 2 3 4

Categories

Hypothesize Graphic Organizer

Problem/Solution Outline

Graphical Organizers convert complex and messy information collections into meaningful displays.

They compress.  They focus. They make interpretation, understanding and insight much easier.

Graphical Organizers help keep students plan their research forays.

They guide the gathering.  They focus purpose. They show what is gained. They show what is still missing.

Graphical Organizers sometimes act like mind maps. They point to the destination. They identify related sites and sights.

• It targets the HOTS or the Higher Order Thinking skills

of the students.

References: http://english.tyhs.edu.tw/xoops/html/tyhs/tea

ch_source96/01.pdf http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/curricul

um-development/kla/pshe/references-and-resources/economics/use_of_graphic_organizers.pdf

http://www.fno.org/oct97/picture.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xsCE4kk

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Thank You!Geneve Loraine D. CruzBSEd III- B