Presidential Infographic Competition

You may sometimes think I am exaggerating the prominence of infographics. Well, just get the significance of this. The Whitehouse kids website is staging a competition for an infographic or visual explanation about how to become the President.

The winner will win a prize of 2,500 dollars and have their infographic distributed to schools and libraries across the USA. Wow!

Like it or not, people are increasingly using visual techniques to absorb and create information. Students bought up digitally like the way infographics offer quick, concise and entertaining pathways to understanding.

Yet I still hear teachers saying that visuals aren’t for them, giving a host of reasons why they don’t get on with them. The point, of course, is not whether teachers like them. It’s if students do. And they do.

I caught this news at
http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com

If you want to see the original competition announcement, catch it on
http://challenge.gov/GSA/44-kids-gov-how-do-i-become-president-challenge