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TCH264: Visual Literacy

TCH264: Visual Literacy. April 8 , 2014. Today’s Class. Review Critical Literacy Mini-lecture- Visual Literacy Reading Strategies (Viewing and Visually Representing) Writer’s Workshop Visual Elements of writing. Critical Literacy.

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TCH264: Visual Literacy

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  1. TCH264: Visual Literacy April 8, 2014

  2. Today’s Class • Review Critical Literacy • Mini-lecture- Visual Literacy • Reading Strategies (Viewing and Visually Representing) • Writer’s Workshop • Visual Elements of writing

  3. Critical Literacy Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. Students’ cultural knowledge and multimedia practices should be used (Comber, 2001, Vasquez, 2000) When we read we bring with us our past experiences and understandings about how the world works. (Vasquez, 2010)

  4. Critical Literacy “The ability to read others” “…. the possibility of understanding our own and others’ experiences from that many more vantage points” “Valuing, exploring, and appreciating multiple perspectives in the classroom.” (Johnston, 1997)

  5. “Critical literacy is social: disrupting the status quo, questioning, studying taken-for-granted assumptions, acting for change. It is reading the world and taking action” (Van Sluys, 2005)

  6. How can we teach it? • Compare texts- incorporate literature with “real-life” texts • Discuss characters’ perspectives • Make connections (Text to Self, Text to World, Text to Text) • Use children’s and YA literature to focus on social issues • Encourage children to take action • Incorporate a variety of texts modes

  7. Multimodality and Multiliteracies People need to navigate and interpret the growing variety of texts which require using different literacy skills • Multimodal Texts- different ways of communicating ideas: • Film -Podcasts • Music -Instant Messages • Video Games • Multiliteracies- the literacy skills needed to interpret multimodal texts • Metalanguage- The use of one sign system used to describe or define another sign system (color, font, lines, texture, placement in space, symbolic images)

  8. CCSS: Reading Integration of Knowledge and Ideas CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

  9. CCSS: Writing Production and Distribution of Writing CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. Research to Build and Present Knowledge CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

  10. CCSS: Speaking and Listening Comprehension and Collaboration CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5 Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

  11. What does CCSS say? Turn and Talk: What do students need to know and do? What do we need to assess? Make a list.

  12. What does it mean? What do people who are visually literate know and what are they able to do? • Understand elements of design • Understand the emotional and psychological effects of visuals • Understand symbolic, metaphorical and representational images • Can design messages using multiple modes http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/element.htm

  13. What types of texts? Images and visual media may include • photographs • illustrations • drawings • maps • diagrams • advertisements • other visual messages and representations Both still and moving.

  14. Visual Literacy Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning • Affective: Expressions of enjoyment, personal interpretation, discusses reasons for liking or disliking a particular image, discuss characters and settings • Compositional:Concepts such as line, angle, color, perspective, symbols, layout, etc. • Critical: Sociocritical understandings of the texts, comments about why the artist/illustrator chose what to include, perspective. How the image positions the viewer

  15. Let’s Try It Again… Brontë Sisters Power Dolls Think Affective, Compositional, and Critical

  16. A text set…. • Norman Rockwell, Girl in the Mirror (painting) • Seventeen Magazine • Bronte Sisters Power Dolls, You Tube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NKXNThJ610 • Gail Carson Levine, Fairest • Stephen Schwartz, Popular, from Wicked • Patty Lovell and David Catrow, Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon • M.M. Kaye, The Ordinary Princess • Robert N. Munsch and Michael Martchenko, The Paper Bag Princess • Mary Hoffman, Princess Grace • Dove Evolution, youtube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

  17. Your Turn • Select a text and determine what Concepts About Print or targets do you need to teach? • What Visual Literacy learning targets could you teach? • What instructional strategies could you use for teaching the targets • Think affective, compositional and critical • Try out some of the activities using the text • What other texts could you pair this with? • How might you use it in your classroom?

  18. Putting it All Together • Connections to Close Reading • How does Critical Literacy connect to teaching for a Democratic Society? • Take a few minutes to discuss how you might incorporate this into your unit plan (What visual texts might you incorporate and how might you use them?)

  19. Looking Ahead… • Writing Minilesson- Leads • Speaking and Listening • Work on you writing and putting together your unit plans and developing your lesson plans April 21- Visit the McLean Co Museum of History (See wiki for directions)

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