THE POWER of VISUAL LEARNING

Learning to think, learning to learn. These are the essential skills for student success in every subject area. Educational research tells us that visual learning is among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think and how to learn. With the powerful combination of visual learning and technology, students learn to clarify thoughts, organize information, and better integrate new ideas.

Clarify thoughts:

• Students see how ideas are connected and realize how information can be grouped and organized. With visual learning, new concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood when they are linked to prior knowledge.

Organize and analyze information:

• Students can use diagrams and plots to display large amounts of information in ways that are easy to understand and help reveal relationships and patterns.

Integrate new knowledge:

• According to research, students better remember information when it's represented and learned both visually and verbally.

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At Performance Basketball Clinics we believe in the power of visual learning. This is why many of the skills we teach to the players are presented to them in a Powerpoint presentation before we step on to the court to practice the skills. Here are a few samples of the slides in the “Building the Shot” presentation.