Visual Literacy “Bring It” into the Classroom

1. Visual Literacy “Bring It” into the Classroom by Jodie Stoltenow

3. I could tell you about the love I feel for my first granddaughter. Or, I could show you the photo:

4. Which is faster? Which is more memorable?

6. Today, clearly, we live in a visual world. Our news comes to us through visual media: • illustrated magazines • newspapers, • movies and television, • streaming videofrom the Internet.

7. Thanks to televisions, Iraqi Freedom unfolded in our living rooms.

8. And who can ever forget the planes crashing into the twin towers of the world trade center on September 11th? Visuals bring emotions and feelings to the learning process.

9. How are Visuals Affecting our Children?

10. Our children have grown up with television. The average teen has watched about 22,000 hours by the time she graduates from high school. (Compare this to the 12,500 hours spent sitting in classrooms!)

11. Our children are constantly bombarded by visuals _- - television, video games, computer graphics, digital cameras, bill boards, cell  phone graphics, and movies.

12. Today, our children are coming to the very visual medium of computers at an earlier and earlier age… Young people learn more than half of what they know from visual information

13. . As Educators of 21st century students, do we have a responsibility to teach with visuals?

14. As Educators of 21st century students, should we teach how to evaluatevisuals?

15. If a picture can stimulate the memory, and the memory becomes the learning then…

16. As Educators of 21st Century students, we must take advantage of every opportunity that comes our way.

17. As Educator of 21st Century Students, we must learn to become Visually Literate and teach Visual Literacy in our day-to-day classroom activities!

18. How do we learn which visuals to use? • How do we learn how to use those visuals? • Where do we start?

19. Let’s start at the very beginning.

20. How do we define Visual Literacy? . The International Visual Literacy Association defines visual literacy as: the ability to discriminate and interpret visual texts, while gaining meaning from them.

21. What is a visual text? A visual text is anything with which we make meaning with images, or patterns and sequences. • advertisements • maps • billboards • cartoons • signs • paintings • photographs • illustrations • charts • graphs • diagrams • motionpictures

22. Examples of Visual Texts

23. Block Diagram with Cutaways A block diagram shows a "piece" of the subject as if it had been cut like a slice of cake and placed on a plate.

24. Tree Diagrams

25. Color Key Diagram Simplifies its subject and makes generalizations. Key features • Clear outlines • Colors identify parts of the subject. • Heading • Color key names parts of the subject without cluttering the diagram with lines and arrows.

26. Venn Diagrams Comparisons can also be made with a Venn diagram. This kind of diagram helps us to find similarities as well as differences:

27. Exploded Diagram An exploded diagram separates the parts of a subject so that each part can be seen clearly.

28. Bar Graphs

29. Column Graph

30. What if Graph? This is a "What if?" activity. Many skills are involved: brainstorming ideas, problem solving, visualizing how all parts of the problem fit together, and planning a discussion or an explanation.

31. Line Graph Bar Graph

32. Science Photographs History

33. Teach students to evaluate what are the meaning of photographs

34. Color, Line, Perspective, Shape, Space, Texture Value.

35. A storyboard can be used to show growth, change or development. Each step is a separate image that shows how the subject changes over time. Story Boards

36. Children’s Books

37. Flow Chart A flow chart is a visual text that shows a series of steps in a sequence.

38. Mystery webs Mystery webs are web diagrams that help with comprehension and learning. They are suitable for creating curiosity about a new topic before you begin it; revising a topic that has just been completed. You are also introducing children to the use of web diagrams, sometimes called concept maps.

39. Maps

40. Why Use Visual Texts?

41. Many information texts use visual elements • Many visual texts are accessible to all readers • Many visual texts are complex, multilayered texts • Visual texts communicate certain information more clearly than verbal texts • Visual texts are widely used in electronic media • Visual literacy is a life skill

42. How to Choose Appropriate Visuals

43. matching Visual Texts with purpose To recount use: time lines, graphs, matching, illustrations Using visual texts in research To explain use: pie graphs, flow or web charts, diagrams To recount use: Time Lines To report use: flow maps, diagrams, maps, labels, diagrams,

44. using Visual texts chose from cross sections bird’s eye view column table context maps column graph Using visual texts in research flow diagram how to diagrams flow chart concept maps

45. using Visual Texts with information skills Organizing use: lists, bird’s eye view, timelines, labeled diagrams, cross sections, graphs Using visual texts in research Presenting use: power points, videos, web pages, wikis Assessing use: tables, graphs,

46. How Will You Teach And Use Visual Literacy in Your Classroom?