Eclectic Technology

Career and Technical Education programs (often called vocational schools) have their students learn by doing. Learning by doing is known as experiential learning. Why is experiential learning beneficial? Below are the three reasons described in this post.

Reason 1: Experiential education promotes positive attitudes towards learning.

Reason 2: Experiential education provides true-to-life experience that enhances career exploration.

Reason 3: Experiential education helps create more engaged members of the workforce.

Each of these reasons is discussed in the post. There is also an excellent infographic, Experiential Learning in the Classroom: Learn by Doing.

Are you wondering what your infographic needs to be a great infographic? This post disects an infographic, sharing what is important to include. Sections include:

* A brief look at the history of infographics

* Does it have all the important parts

   * Gotta have brains: data and story

   * Ooo la la visualization

   * Shareability

Additional information as well as links to resources are located under the infographic. If you plan on having students create infographics this year you may want to share this as a tool for discussion as students review infographics and learn to identify great infographics.