Enhancing Learning With Visuals

 Enhancing Learning With Visuals

There is no doubt that visuals are important to the enhancement of students learning. By using visual aids students see how ideas are connected and realize how information can be grouped and organized. With visual learning, new concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood when they are linked to prior knowledge.


From the perspective of cognitive psychology, it is well known that graphical thinking is one of the strategies for enhancing an individual's memory, due to visual images making the abstract more concrete and enabling learners to explain complex information simply (Rakes, 1999).

These visuals helps students organize and analyze information. They can use diagrams  to display large amounts of information in ways that are easy to understand . By using these aids students integrate new knowledge and  think critically.

In conclusion,research tells us that the majority of students in a regular classroom need to see information in order to learn it. Which emphasize the important of using visuals in ordre the enhancement  of student learning.







References

University of Pennsylvania (2009). Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology Study. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 10, 2011

Constantinidou, F. and Baker, S. (2002). Stimulus modality and verbal learning performance in normal aging. Brain and Language, 82(3), 296–311.