Visual Literacy Britney Murphy What is Visual Literacy Definition T he learned ability to interpret visual messages accurately and to create such messages Britney Murphy Why is it ID: 644907
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Visual Literacy
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What is Visual Literacy?
Definition:
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he learned ability to interpret visual messages accurately and to create such messages.
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Why is it
Important to
Know About Visual Literacy?
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It is important to know about visual literacy so you can have an understanding and to help your students interpret art and visual media that they come in contact with.
It introduces the process of analytical thinking about representation and meaning.
It allows students to visualize while reading charts, graphs, pictures, and posters. Slide4
Why Use
Visuals in Instruction?
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Helps Provide
a Concrete Referent for Ideas
Make Abstract Ideas Concrete
Motivate Learners
Gives Direct Attention to Students
Repeating of Information helps
c
hildren gain the knowledge
Recall Prior Learning
Reduce Learning
Effort
Students may learn better visually
Might be able to interpret things more if actually seen instead of readSlide5
Value Added to the Learning Process
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Interest learning for children
Increase retention of information and learningAid communicationExplain the relationships between certain things
Clarify difficult and hard to understand informationSlide6
Designed to Influence Children Learning
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Simple
Clear language/textInformative
Show abstract idea into more of a realistic format
Showing relationships between 2 or more things
Use graphs such as pie charts, line graphs, or posters that help students visualize what they are leaning
Illustrations that show one thing that can lead into anotherSlide7
2 General Approaches to Teach Visual Literacy
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Teaching by pictures, drawings, charts, graphs, posters, and cartoons
Teaching by PowerPoint, Prezi
, Or the Overhead Projector. Slide8
6 Types of Visuals
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Pictures
- a photographic representation of a famous person like George WashingtonDrawings - student drawn sketch or diagram of a person or a placeCharts
- the water cycle or the food chain
Graphs
- bar graph, pictorial graph, circle graph, and line graph
Posters
- the food pyramid or the color wheelCartoons
- caricatures of real or fictional people, animals, and eventsSlide9
When Should You Use Presentation Software for Instruction?
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An example of presentation software could be PowerPoint,
Prezi, digital images, overhead projector, or printed visualsMost teacher would use this software when they are teaching a lesson or trying to get information to your students through learningSlide10
Qualities of an Essential Question
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Answers cannot be found, they must be constructed
They cast old knowledge, ideas, texts, in a new light
They
generate multiple answers and perspectives
They generate more questions
They lead to discovery and uncovering, rather than simply covering, a topic
They are engagingly framed
They are higher-order; they always take us to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
Students must go beyond the information given to develop their answers