How to Integrate Visual Literacy to Enhance Learning
Visual Literacy is part of our everyday class scenario!
Today's learning is based
on visuals that highlight and validate information, context,
symbolism, aesthetics and cultural aspects; providing reflection and
knowledge. This learning style is a great bum worldwide that does not
require the use of an specific learning style, multiple intelligence, language
or ethnicity to be communicated. It is a fast and instantaneous way
of showing in a vivid way different learning aspects with images and videos.
The easy way of just clicking into a tech device facilitates the student
and the teachers the role in the learning process
There are a lot of visual
sources on the net, but the interesting question is which one to
choose? As a technology Integrator my essential skill that represents
my strength in order to engage in a visual oriented society is to move one
step forward and to continue showing my students how to gather these visual
images or videos from accurate sources that will enrich their presentations for
their classes and for their own learning. So they can be able to select the
ones that do represent the themes they want to learn and to retrieve facts to
provide a clearer understanding and a stronger point of view. In our school the
school librarian also provides reliable sources to teachers and students and
this is great to motivate a responsible use of the internet.
It is so important to
teach our students about digital citizenship by showing the correct way of
accrediting the people or organizations from which they are retrieving the
visuals and information. Students don't realize the importance of showing
and teaching others, from who they are borrowing these to support their
learning process. This is essential for their every day internet lives.
The
combination of visuals + the information has
to give a simple formula result
= meaningful
contributions to learning.
By:Britt Michaelian, April1, 2011
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Bibliography
Association of Colleges
and Research Libraries. (2011, October). ACRL
Visual
Literac Competence Standards for Higher
Education. Retrieved
from ACRL: http://www.ala.
org/acrl/standards/visual literacy
Hattwig,D., Burguess,J.
Bussert. K., & Medaille. A. (2011). Visual
Literacy
Competency Standards for Higher Education.Retrieved from Association of College &
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visualliteracy.pdf
Ale,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in that education has to find its balance always. It would be impossible to meet everything at the same time with all perfection. As you mention, "fields of study evolve because the world’s evolves too." I like your idea of digital citizenship because this implies teaching students how to act accordingly digitally. It will also help students to, as you mention" to make meaningful contributions", to think about what they want to contribute.
Ale, I was glad reading that as a technology teacher you are concerned about your students using the correct sources and using them appropriately. As when browsing for information, when looking for images, students tend to use the first available or the one with a friendly font or style and we really need to encourage them in selecting for reliable information. It is so important to work as a team an all teachers asking. It is a long process but if we work "in the same page" we can help them to have better investigation skills.
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