Visual+Ranking

=** Prioritizing, Identifying and Refining Criteria: Intel Visual Ranking Tool to Support Knowledge Integration **=

7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
====//** "The exercise of ordering your favorites…ranking one a level higher than another, and then articulating why you chose the way you did-requires a depth and clarity of consideration and comparison that inspires richer appreciation and enjoyment." **//====

//How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci//
====**Why use the Visual Ranking Tool?** It has the potential to address all the components in Bloom's taxonomy, the cognitive domain and the affective domain. The pictures below show the domains as defined by Bloom.====

The Wordle below is based on the words in one paragraph found on the Visual Ranking website and provides an overview of the benefits of the tool. What does this Wordle say to you?


==== The Visual Ranking tool is easy to use. Students click and drag the items in a list to the position they want to place it. As they work in their team they must negotiate as they come to consensus.The picture below shows part of the list, in this case questions. The students have begun to rank the questions based on the prompt hand have also begun to explain their reasoning. ====



==== Bransford, J.; Brown, A.; and Cocking, R., eds. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (Expanded Edition). Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000. Available at http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309070368 ====