Describing / analysing a photo 20 different ways

1. Describing / analysing a photo 20 different ways

2. Analysing a photo 20 different connected waysSenses1. Say what you see?2. What could you hear?3. What would you smell?4. How might people be feeling in their heart?5. What would/wouldn't you touch?6. What would your taste buds sense? You can extend these even more by applying the question matrix to each of the 6 senses and vary the thinking required as a personalisation strategy. • This is all applied to the NOW. A concept I have used lots and many will have read via the great David Didau 'The Learning Spy' with the concept of examining a photo from a variety of temporal avenues:Time • 7. Before 8. Before, before 9. After 10. After, after • Spatial • 11. To the left of the image 12. To the right of the image – make predictions / hypothesize.

3. What are either side of the picture? Create a likely scene

4. The next few are geography categorising skills but can really focus students into specifics of an image or get them thinking of likely or possible issues:13. Social14. Economic15. Environmental 16. Scale - is there something or someone in the image that you can scale and therefore qualitatively make judgements on sizes of elements of the image? Say a fence. • Then apply that scale to other aspects of the image.

5. 17. Post it notesStick 6 over the image. Students lift each post it and examine that specific part of the image. This is developing into a 6 part grid as students develop the use to save on post it paper. • Manageable chunks. • Stretches descriptions. I find that many students limit their photo analysis to the big hook of the image that stands out and as a result marginal aspects are neglected or missed. Not now.

6. I like multiple coloured post it notes. • Yellow senses; • Orange before(s) (half a post it each) • light yellow after(s) (half a post it each) • pink social • green economic and environmental. • 18. Great for collaboration and prioritising / ranking for written structure. This is then developed into a structure to write up. • Start with the most important post it then, 2nd etc

7. 19. Students share analysis with each other - team teaching. • 20. Feedback on the back of the post it notes green pen any additional thinking for that aspect as critique element by being Kind, Specific and Helpful. • 21. A great extension and stretch and challenge activity is where you remove all of the post it notes and get students on other tables to predict what the image must look like from the descriptions, labels that are on the post it notes. One could be reading what it says on a post it and then another can draw what they say showing thinking for speaking and listening:) Then the other table evaluating what they created. By comparing original with creation.

8. 1st 2nd Deeper Q

9. Question matrix • 22. I often get students to use my Question grid against the image incorporating all the 21 points. • It allows students to take greater control of the image and really gather its elements in their mind in a structured to their pace manneras they formalise the questions. A couple of excellent examples of how 2 people on twitter have used it @EmmaAbuDhabi and @Shaun_Allison

10. 1st 2nd Deeper Q

11. 1st 2nd Deeper Thinking + - Focus:- define, describe, analogy, explain, comment, classify, compare and or contrast, cause, effect, sequence, create, analyse, evaluate, generalise, predict Highlight your thinking focus significance 1. Focus 2. Grid 3. Socratic Circle questions (help cards if needed) 4. Switch effect.