Creating word clouds can been seen as a quick visually-disruptive engagement of the audience or learners on a topic to quickly identify the most common keywords and themes related to descriptive text.
Making students to read text, identify the keywords (nouns, adjectives, verbs, ideas, emotions, concept labels) provides a broad comprehensive picture of key ideas and themes leading to enhancement of analytical thinking at a glance.
When students are exposed to the skill of word cloud making, it provides training in cognitive skill of useful for summarizing large amount of information or datasets. It has been seen that the word clouds readily reveal the central ideas, glossary, keywords, vocabulary and recurring concepts within a text in an engaging way
The inset hand-made word cloud on STEM education
Key benefits of using word clouds:
Word clouds...
Provide visualization
Build a background on a topic
Help in summarising a topic
Aid active remembering and recall
If students and teachers are to build vocabulary anf terminology as through the visualizing tool of cloud in a subject area for students, it can lead to active learning with cognitive and non-cognitive skills for better learning outcomes. There is a possibility of flipping the classroom through the skill of creating word-clouds on various concepts, ideas and topics.
The inset visual shows the the hand-created word-cloud by this blogger to enhance his own skill in advocacy-communication about STEM education. Effective communication is a professional as well as employable skill in the technology-immersed world of present times. The bordering has been the the calligraphy alphabet to add design thinking element
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