How do you know if students understand a concept?
Graphic Organizers allow teachers to view students progress throughout an assignement. Teachers can look at the graphics, text, links or multimedia that students include and determine if it relates to what they are supposed to be doing. If not then you will know that students may not understand a concept and need more information or support to complete the assignment.
How can you depict student misconceptions of key informaiton?
You can do this based on the information provided in the graphic organizer. "Relationships are expressed by creating links between and among the elements and images, students can add text to a link to explain or label a relationship" (p. 260). If you notice that these relationships are misconceptions of key information then it is easy to point out to your students and provide assistance to get them back on track.
How can students capture and transfer brainstorming ideas into written thoughts?
Fourtunatley "many graphic organizers offer a brainstorming tool that lets the recorder type in an idea of one student and then instantly create a link and new icon ready for the next idea" (p. 260). Students can then go back and review the brainstorming session and produce written thoughts based on these ideas.
References:
Lowther, D.L. & Morrison, G.R. (2010). Integrating Computer Technology into the Classroom; Skills for the 21st Century (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
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