Teaching infographic literacy involves asking students to flex their critical thinking skills - and their creative muscles.
To guide teachers, Smith and Robertson suggest a new framework breaking down the concept into four steps: exploration, investigation, creation, and interrogation - useful for upper elementary classes and above. They suggest modeling how to read an infographic by projecting it for the whole class, sharing observations and design choices, and asking students what they notice. In small groups, students can practice their close reading skills as they learn to read and interpret complex graphics. After students learn to read an infographic, they must further analyze how infographics layer elements, such as text, color, illustrations, and numbers to convey meaning. As Smith and Robertson note, "Separating these modes is an important step in students understanding the significance of attending to both the printed word and the visual elements."
Read the article by Stephen Noonoo here: Using Infographics to Build Media Literacy and Higher-Order Thinking Skills | Edutopia
Further reading: (Info)Graphically Inclined: A framework of infographic learning by Jennifer M Smith, Marla K Robertson (2021) | The Reading Teacher | Wiley Online Library (you will require an account with the Wiley Online Library, or need to pay a fee to access the text of the full article)
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