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13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics [HTML 5]

13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics [HTML 5] | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Enjoy our HTML 5 interactive infographic that exaplains why infographics are so successful
Beth Dichter's insight:

Have you wondered why infographics have taken off over the years? This interactive infographic shares "13 reasons why your brain craves  infographics." It also provides links to 17 resources. Below are two reasons that are shared...click through to the interactive resource to learn the rest!

* Did you know that "people following directions with text and illustrations do 323% better than people following directions without labels." (The research was specific to labels on medicine and looked at comprehension rate of text only labels and labels with text and pictures."

* What helps us recall information. This infographic says that people remember "10% of what they HEAR, 20% of what they READ, 80% of what they SEE and  DO."

Audrey's comment, June 16, 2013 2:01 PM
This is absolutely true, we process visual information so much faster. Have a look at the learning material at: http://www.homeschoolsource.co.uk
Debra Evans's curator insight, June 16, 2013 6:05 PM

Great resource

Carey Leahy's curator insight, June 22, 2013 7:28 AM

Works for me!

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An Interactive Timeline of the History of Education - Edudemic

An Interactive Timeline of the History of Education - Edudemic | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From the first known school (in the year 2000 BC) to the Apple iPad and beyond, it's all in this interactive history of education timeline.

IWhen you click on an event additional information is available. According to this post there are 85 entries on the timeline and the plan is to continue to update it. To go directly to the timeline, brought to you by edhistory.com go to http://edhistory.com/.

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