This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Vanessa's visually rich presentation on the power of imagery to teach, helps bring home her message that we need to teach in the way that students learn, rather than trying to get learners to conform to a teaching methodology. Vanessa makes her case persuasively, with illustrations that make basic chemistry accessible and understandable, and prove her point neatly.

Vanessa Ralph owns Next Generation Curriculum Design and is currently designing, illustrating, and editing a General Chemistry textbook titled “General Chemistry for Visual Learners”. Her Idea worth Spreading is that “Modern learners learn differently than their teachers teach!” and she hopes to inspire all of us “to reform yesterday’s science curriculum to fit a new standard for meeting the needs of today’s VISUAL learners."

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