Visual literacy refers to the learned ability to interpret visual messages accurately and to create such messages. The value of using and creating visuals in the classroom seems to be the learning tools for students in the 21st century. Visuals can be used in a variety of ways to enhance learning. By using visuals you can find ways of helping students understand complex ideas, and engage learners in their quest for knowledge. Students can learn by using nonprojected visuals as well as projected visuals. Nonprojected media such as pictures, charts, graphs, posters, cartoons, etc., can make instruction more realistic and engaging and can provide powerful visual support for learning abstract ideas. Projected media such as PowerPoint slides, digital images, and overhead transparencies can enhance presentations made by students or teachers. Using visuals will help students to comprehend more about what teachers are talking about (Smaldino, Lowther, & Russell, 2008). Using visual literacy in the classroom setting will help students to recall and remember information. Visual literacy will help students to succeed in a progressively visually society.
The use of the Internet has impacted the teaching and learning process for students in the 21st century. The Internet provides resources to extend classroom activities, this increases higher level thinking and collaborative learning. By using the Internet the students become highly engaged, increase their skills, and will help them with their lessons.
I would like to use pictures/art in whatever subject I am discussing. This will help students to develop higher level thinking skills. Using pictures will help them to comprehend what they are learning and will help them to retain and remember information on the subject.
What role do you want the Internet to play in your classroom?
The role I would want the Internet to play in my classroom would be to teach students how to use e-mail, how to design a WebQuest, and how to create and maintain a blog based on the content covered on the topic we are studying.
The field of Instructional Technology is not founded solely within the field of Education. Much of the research in Instructional Technology is based in Communications theory. Visual literacy is a term that is based within the Communications field. Visual literacy includes the comprehension of visual media using diagrams, graphs, and diagrams as a form of presenting data. The study of visual literacy also examines how visuals enhance the cognitive abilities of learners using specific properties of the visuals including spatial relationships, composition, and color. Additionally, visual literacy examines an awareness of visual manipulation, distortion, and misinformation in advertising and propaganda.
ReplyDeleteSince the early 1990’s, the Internet has evolved into a visual media tool unsurpassed by any other visual learning technology (photos, diagrams, videos, etc…). Broadband communications has enhanced the Internet’s capacity to present visual media, concurrent with the expansion of the recent emergence of social networking where visual media is shared. With so much media blazing past us, it is important that teachers balance the use of visual media or teaching and learning with an awareness that visual media is not all accurate and true. The power of television and film images can create an almost utopian world of objects and events creating an illusion of reality that draws us in.
Visual literacy must couple the use of visual media of all kinds with an understanding of how visual media constructs meaning for the learner, while advocating careful review of the elements that make up the image in order to enhance understanding and appreciation or to promote critical viewing skills.
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