Infographics and education

Infographics are ideal for teaching the basics of complicated processes or breaking down high-level data for all types of students. They have a similar function as we saw previously with mindmaps, they provide help highlighting, explaining, or enhancing text-based information. They are usually flashy, having the unique ability to capture your attention, convey information, and encourage data retention despite their complex nature.

Teachers can use infographics for example to illustrate a historical timeline for sciences, highlight important statistics in maths, increase awareness of an issue, provide helpful tips to organize information to prepare a presentation, offer step-by-step instructions, generate interest or encourage their motivation for an event.

The ingredients for a good infographic are a clear and direct title, the body with visual information, an explanatory text to contextualize or complete the graphic information, references to the sources, authorship and license.

There are different digital tools to create infographics for our class. Some examples are easel.ly, canva, smore, tackk, mural.ly or padlet. After having a look at all of them I decided to use Piktochart.

-Positive facts: They provide you with a big number of templates about different topics that you can edit and use for free. You can also upload your own images or videos, create lists, timelines or comparisons. You have many possibilities to change the type of letter to make your infographic attractive for the receptor.

-Negative facts: If you want to embed your project you need to pay for it.

Let me introduce my creation. This is an infographic about important developments in human history. It is aimed at the fifth grade of primary education for the social science subject. This resource is going to help to visualize the unit because it is very flashy, with different colours, types and sizes of letters, bold font and pictures. This features are going to catch students´attention engaging them in the lesson.