Google Drawing can be used in a classroom to create collaborative graphics that express meanings. It can be used to create flow charts, custom graphs, informational posters and graphic designs.
For example, when a language teacher asks students to write a resource-based essay, he can create the graphic organizer displaying the structure of the reading material, making a template for the essay and share it with class. The class will make a copy of it and use it to prepare for the writing. Students can be asked to show how they understand the material by creating a chart on Google Drawing to analyze it and organize their thoughts and ideas on outlines. It will help to meet the requirement of CCSS for reading “Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.” (Table 8.1 Anchor Standard 1 for Reading, Graham’s book chapter 8, P129)
When a math teacher wants his students to explore geometry, he can ask students to use Google Drawings to draw shapes and manipulate them under instructions. Shapes can be edited by clicking and dragging, increasing and decreasing in size, rotating 90 degrees, and flipping…, which will meet the requirement of CCSS to draw, construct and describe geometrical figures in Seventh grade.
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