Visual Literacy
How does Visual Literacy fit in with Global Collaboration, Project Based Learning and Flipped Learning?
Visual Literacy is a critical element in our day to day lives. Since 90% of the information that we collect in our brain is sent visually, we can dramatically impact student learning by integrating visual literacy into instruction.
Visual Literacy and PBL
Teachers can leverage visual literacy, using it to explain the PBL process and workflow. While PBL is very open ended and student centered, successful projects use organizational structures to keep projects moving forward. Students who struggle with project management could benefit from having these structures laid out for them in a visual manner. Through Project Based Learning, students are often challenged to create some sort of product to explain an idea to an audience. Explaining the thought process and idea through an image reaches the audience in direct, easy to understand manner.
Visual Literacy and Flipped/Blended Learning
Visual images are necessary in the flipped/blended learning environment. Without them, engaging students would be very difficult. Images spark curiosity and the imaginative process and make students want to learn. Without images in the flipped/ blended learning environment, it would be very difficult to construct meaning from the content and invoke critical thinking. Students would look at a boring page with little emotion. Visual Literacy helps to spark emotion in the digital environment.
Can Visual Literacy enhance the learning in your classroom? How?
Visual Literacy is the universal language that all of our students understand, regardless of their native language. Students retain more information when they intake it visually. Visuals helps enhance communication, classification, and sensory learning. When students are visually literate, they have the ability to interpret meaning from images that they see in their day to day lives. They can find meaning in images by taking the time to look, see, describe, analyze, and interpret the image. This is a life long skill that students will use to better understand the world around them.
Visual Literacy is a critical element in our day to day lives. Since 90% of the information that we collect in our brain is sent visually, we can dramatically impact student learning by integrating visual literacy into instruction.
Visual Literacy and PBL
Teachers can leverage visual literacy, using it to explain the PBL process and workflow. While PBL is very open ended and student centered, successful projects use organizational structures to keep projects moving forward. Students who struggle with project management could benefit from having these structures laid out for them in a visual manner. Through Project Based Learning, students are often challenged to create some sort of product to explain an idea to an audience. Explaining the thought process and idea through an image reaches the audience in direct, easy to understand manner.
Visual Literacy and Flipped/Blended Learning
Visual images are necessary in the flipped/blended learning environment. Without them, engaging students would be very difficult. Images spark curiosity and the imaginative process and make students want to learn. Without images in the flipped/ blended learning environment, it would be very difficult to construct meaning from the content and invoke critical thinking. Students would look at a boring page with little emotion. Visual Literacy helps to spark emotion in the digital environment.
Can Visual Literacy enhance the learning in your classroom? How?
Visual Literacy is the universal language that all of our students understand, regardless of their native language. Students retain more information when they intake it visually. Visuals helps enhance communication, classification, and sensory learning. When students are visually literate, they have the ability to interpret meaning from images that they see in their day to day lives. They can find meaning in images by taking the time to look, see, describe, analyze, and interpret the image. This is a life long skill that students will use to better understand the world around them.