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Mosaic Of Thoughts: Information Visualization

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Khadijah Niazi, an eleven years old girl from Pakistan who were taking college levels physics, couldn 't take her exam through Udacity because The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocked YouTube on 2008. She posted a massage on the Udacity website asking for help saying " I am very angry, but I will not quit". Moreover, students from all around the world tried to help her until a Portuguese professor found a way to download YouTube videos and share them with Khadijah. The next day she took the exam and got the highest distinction!. This example shows that governments are wrong by blocking technology because technology has a positive effect on education. There are 3 reasons why technology should be used more in educational institutions …show more content…

Information visualizations is the study of presenting abstract information to reinforce human understanding. “ Proficient reader spontaneously and purposely create mental images while and after they read. The images emerge from all five senses as well as the emotion and are anchored in a reader’s prior knowledge. “ said Susan Zimmermann and Elline Oliver in their book Mosaic of Thoughts: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction. What is more, as mentioned in Visualization and Computer Graphics Issue 6, visualizing information for some students is an easier way to understand and absorb information and it improves educational performance. David McCandless, a British journalist and information designer in London, once said “ By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.”. Technology and computer programs help us present information in many and different ways. Microsoft PowerPoint and Prezi, for example, gives the students and teachers endless ways to present their …show more content…

Microsoft Word has dramatically changed the way people write their papers and made it more efficient. Additionally, a study that was made by M.D. Roblyer, technology using teacher and contributor to the educational technology for nearly 30 years, mentions that writing on Microsoft word saves time, enhances documents appearance and it allow sharing for documents and information. “ engage in the revising of their work throughout the writing process, more frequently share and receive feedback from their peers, and benefit from teacher input earlier in the writing process “ said Amie Goldberg, Michael Russell and Abigail Cook and their book The Effect of Computers on Student Writing. Also, grading machines makes the grading process for teachers and professors faster and

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