Use Cases | CASE 03 Critical Thinking Skills

Teacher Kenkichi Nagano (Momoyama Elementary School, Kyoto University of Education)

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Develop your thinking ability with graphic organizers

For students to take the initiative in creating their ideas, it is important to acquire knowledge and utilize it to think, judge, and express them.

Graphic organizers visualize thoughts and support the use of knowledge.

At Momoyama Elementary School, affiliated with Kyoto University of Education, we have succeeded in developing students’ thinking, judgment, and expressiveness by utilizing the Thinking Tools of LoiLoNote School.

Changes after introducing LoiLoNote School

Graphic organizers are used in sorting information, group discussions, presentation activities, and reflections.

In the process of deepening the understanding of the learning content and creating ideas, abilities of thinking, judgment and expression were developed.

Although you can write and use graphic organizers on paper, there are significant benefits to using the Graphic organizer on LoiLoNote School.

You can easily copy, move, and modify cards so you can quickly organize your thoughts without stopping your thoughts.

By switching the Graphic organizer diagrams, you can reconstruct your thoughts from a different point of view.

By accumulating the data of the entire unit on one Note screen, students will get a bird’s-eye view of their learning of the unit.

Voices of teachers

It has made me possible to “compare,” “classify,” and “associate” consciously.

Qualitative and quantitative improvements were seen in students who were not good at writing.

As I can see the flow of thoughts of students, I can now give them more accurate guidance.

Voices of students

I’m not good at organizing my thoughts, but using graphic organizers made it easier to do so.

Shortened the working time.

It has become faster to come up with new ideas.