Critical Thinking Activities, Philosophy, middle school, high school, ChatGPT

Visual essays offer students a refreshing, creative outlet for showcasing their knowledge and understanding. They perfectly combine critical thinking with artistic expression, ensuring a meaningful, engaging, and unique experience for students to demonstrate their learning.

Moreover, cheating has unfortunately become an ongoing issue in students’ education. With the development of essay generators like ChatGPT, it is too easy for students to acquire quick and plagiarized essays. The visual essay is a great alternative.

Research has shown that visual aids stimulate learning and help students process, organize, and understand information more effectively. Visual essays, in particular, can facilitate complex ideas and new ways of thinking, leading to higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Moreover, visual essays prepare students for the real world by developing their visual and communication skills, which are essential in various professional fields. On top of that, they are a perfect way to teach figurative language, as this assignment works best with texts that employ figurative elements.

INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT:

⭐ NEW: Guide to Teaching Visual Essays

⭐ NEW: Visual Essay Assignment Instructions for teachers and students

⭐ NEW: Difference between One-Pagers and Visual Essays

⭐ NEW: Interactive version of Visual Essays

⭐ NEW: Detailed write-up for a Visual Essay on Nietzsche, along with the image

⭐ NEW: Example of how students demonstrate understanding of philosophical concepts through visual representation

⭐ Detailed Rubric

⭐ Information on ChatGPT and AI essay generation is the new reality 

⭐ Student examples—I use student examples from previous semesters to help my class understand my expectations. I have included 12 examples from my lectures on various Great Books: Nietzsche, Plato, and Thucydides. I have some TpT products that cover the same or similar material used during my lectures for these projects—see the last slide for details. 

⭐ Two amazing examples from a teacher in Florida.

⭐ Seven examples of visuals done during a Socratic Seminar.

⭐ Images from the library display at my University. This year, I was asked to give a talk on Visual Essays at my University’s event, Celebrate! Teaching and Learning (“an event for faculty, staff, and students to share significant moments, or sources of inspiration, from their teaching and learning experiences at the University”). 

⭐ Information on Google Slides for teachers and students

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