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After a number of lessons, the fat little set of graphic organizers is called the Lotus
Leaf Notebook. All the separate lessons fit together, one inside the last. It is really neat looking, compact, and very
much open to color coding for student personalizing.
It makes a great alternative assessment device, and as a Rubric of evaluation, those students with the complete subject
matter within their grasp appear to have a degree of mastery, de facto. The power of the instruction
lies in the repetition.
The student memory is enhanced in a number of ways by this method. First, to remember things, it helps to "store
them" in some particular place. Just where the mind, or, actually the brain, does this has been verified by recent laboratory
experiments.
But, where, in the mind, do we "place" our thoughts, no one has a clue.
Nevertheless, this software suggests we do it, that is, place stuff in a mental pattern or schemata. The Lotus Leaf
Graphic Organizer models this process. So, every piece of information goes somewhere on the graphic organizer, and hence,
has a location, also in the mind of the students where it is re-enforced by previous ordering in other Topics studied.
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