Intel Visual Ranking Tool
Developing Critical Thinking Skills
Address:
http://educate.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/VisualRanking
The Intel® Visual Ranking tool is one of the interactive Web 2.0 teaching tools available through the Intel Education Initiative. Register for the
Intel Education Service
for free. Registration creates a teacher workspace for setting up class projects. The Visual Ranking tool lets students brainstorm a list of items or use a provided list to assign a ranking based on a determined criteria. The list is presented as a visual diagram that allows students to click and drag list elements. Students analyze and evaluate their answers to reach an agreement on organizing their ideas. This site can address any important information across the curriculum. It is easy enough to use even in the elementary grades, but powerful enough to be useful on the high school and college level. For an overview of this site watch this
video.
21st Century Skills
Critical thinking is an important skill our students need to acquire to be successful in the 21st century. While students using this site can engage in cognitive skills at all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, the tool is most valuable in developing skills in critical thinking, analysis and evaluation. Using a simple list students reflect, analyze and persuade fellow classmates. Critical thinking skills flourish as students rank elements, justify and defend their choices.
In the Classroom
The Intel Education Service provides a good selection of
project examples
to help teachers get started with this Web 2.0 teaching tool. This site can be used at any stage of a lesson or unit. As a pre-activity it activates prior knowledge and helps teachers identify areas for learning. It can be used mid-activity to emphasize current learning that will be used in follow-up activities. At the end of a lesson the tool can be used for assessment. Lessons and Units using the Visual Ranking Tool:
The Five Senses – Kindergarten
The San Francison Earthquate – Grades 6-8
Thanksgiving Dinner (Louisiana Rapides Parish Schools LaTEL)
Tutorial
Intel’s Visual Ranking Tool Tutorial
Safety Concerns
The password-protected workspace is accessed using a teacher-created ID, team ID, and password.
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