Synopses & Reviews
Its new. Its graphic. It is the first of its kind. This full color book provides a practical approach to incorporating graphic inquiry across the curriculum. It is designed to help school library media specialists, technology coordinators, and classroom teachers identify tools and techniques for using graphic inquiry with students. This visually rich book provides numerous, standards-based inquiry activities and projects that incorporate traditional materials as well as emerging social and collaborative technologies. Designed to bridge theory and practice,
Graphic Inquiry has applications for new and practicing educators and librarians. Although research is cited and references are provided, lengthy text passages are replaced by practical, visual examples rooted in best practice and presented in graphic format.
We live in a high-tech, multimedia world, yet most of our classroom activities still emphasize print communication. Even inquiry-based approaches to learning often stress writing lists of questions, reading texts, and writing papers. We know that many of our young people are motivated by graphic communications. There's a need to explore the potential of graphic inquiry in teaching and learning.
This full color book is intended to provide a practical approach to incorporating graphic inquiry across the curriculum. Specifically, it is designed to help the school library media specialists, technology coordinators, and classroom teachers identify tools and techniques for using graphic inquiry with their students. This visually rich book provides numerous, standards-based inquiry activities and projects that incorporate traditional materials as well as emerging social and collaborative technologies.
Designed to bridge theory and practice, this book has applications for new and practicing educators and librarians. Although research will be cited and references provided, lengthy text passages will be avoided in favor of practical, visual examples rooted in best practice and presented in graphic format. Readers will view this book as a quick reference to timely, realistic activities and approaches as opposed to a traditional textbook.
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"This is an amazing book! These two scholars have built a fresh approach to the use of the graphic arts to teach an inquiry method of learning through pictorial representations. This book is an important contribution to what we would usually term as information literacy but in another dimension. . . . This is simply the best book on using visuals in education we have seen. Well done, practical, useful, creative, thoughtful, and filled with possibility for great new advances in teaching and learning—those are just a few of the adjectives that come to mind. This is the best of the crop we have seen in a long time. Congratulations to the authors, and a well deserved must-read, must-own, must-use recommendation from this reviewer." - David Loertscher, Teacher Librarian Magazine
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"The book is fun! You will absorb content quickly and find new ways to bring graphics into your teaching and student learning." - School Librarian's Workshop
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"This book is full of information, tips, and ideas for using graphics (charts, graphic organizers, photos, diagrams, graphs) to teach and present. . . . This professional resource will prove to be helpful when collaborating with teachers and creating lessons that align with Common Core Standards." - Library Media Connection
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"Authored by two professors of education and library science and former library media specialists, this work is filled with examples and ideas to implement across the curriculum. Presented in a graphic manner, with colorful images and glossy paper, this book is an example of nontraditional presentation of materials, which is apropos to the content. . . . The content is very valuable, drawing on research and experience, tying the practical and the theoretical together seamlessly." - ARBA
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This full-color book provides a practical approach to incorporating graphic inquiry across the curriculum for school library media specialists, technology coordinators, and classroom teachers.
Synopsis
It's new. It's graphic. And it is the first of its kind. Designed to bridge theory and actual practice,
Graphic Inquiry contains applications for new and practicing educators and librarians that can truly bring classroom learning into the 21st century. This visually rich book provides numerous, standards-based inquiry activities and projects that incorporate traditional materials as well as emerging social and collaborative technologies.
This full-color book provides real-world strategies for integrating graphic inquiry across the curriculum and is specifically designed to help today's educators identify tools and techniques for using graphic inquiry with their students. Although research is cited and references are provided, lengthy text passages are avoided in favor of practical, visual examples rooted in best practice and presented in graphic format. Readers will view this book as a quick reference to timely, realistic activities and approaches as compared to a traditional textbook.
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• Dozens of references and virtual links to associated resources