Reflection – Visualization

Challenge & Selection

The first tool I used was the tool of Visualization, to achieve a shared understanding of a problem before attempting to identify and define possible solutions to the specific problem or situation. I am a high school student and I use this approach often with my classmates and teachers. I have used the technique of using only visualization of a problem domain with a set of questions or prompts for discussion to allow everyone in class to learn from each other in the process of defining the answers, solutions, key elements, and relationships between each other while we discuss any theme.

Application

When presented with images, the mind gets the chance to combine senses and create associations between more than one element, generating a correlation between the picture and the information. When it comes to teaching, this means that the more images that are shown to learners, the more they remember. I start this process of visualization mostly in my scholar society, more specificity in my classroom. Paying attention in class is not always easy, and this pandemic, and online classes makes it a lot harder. Personally I find it difficult to take notes and pay attention at the same time, and more if it is through a screen or monitor. So a few weeks ago, I started to only focus on the class and not on what I was writing in my notebook. Obviously the important things I actually write them down, but I tried to get the least distracted from the class, by the tool of visualization.

Insight & Approach

What I have learned from conducting this exercise in my online classes is that by visualizing the content of a lesson or a passage that they are reading, comprehension increases dramatically, and surely since I have discovered that the most valuable aspect is the shared insights and learning, next time I would use the visualization activity as a starting point for a series of design thinking activities. It actually helps me a lot to not get distracted so easily and for the future this will help me to be more responsible and ordered.

