My class recently used Lucid chart to help organize an essay. Lucid chart is an app that is connected to Google drive that allows the user to create an online flow chart organizer. It has a variety of tools and shapes that can be used to customize a flow chart to fit with unique projects. This seemed like a great fit for my class since they were working on organizing an essay for their endangered species project. I told the class that this was in place of completing a graphic organizer and that they had the chance to be more creative this way.
I told the students that they needed to have five paragraphs laid out and each needed to have the four parts of an ACES paragraph (assertion, citation, explanation, and shift). I showed them how to connect to the app and then they really just ran with it. It is an intuitive program that the students were able to play around with and seemed to have fun using. One of my students even said that, "This is way better than a graphic organizer." My group read an article that described 8 examples using the SAMR model this week. This helped me to better understand what that model is all about and that I have used it several times without realizing it. When I used Lucid chart in my language arts classes I was probably at the modification stage of the model. When modifying a task, technology "allows for significant task redesign." (Walsch, 2015, p.1). Unlike using a graphic organizer, Lucid chart allowed the students to design the layout and organization of their thinking. The students were able to get creative using the different shapes and colors. They can also share their creations with me or other students to get feedback on their work. This is certainly a tool that I would consider using again. Once everyone figured out how to connect the app, it was really easy to use Lucid chart. If something can make writing an essay even a tiny bit more fun, I am all about it.
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