As a group, we decided the definition of visual literacy was the interpreting and making meaning of something you see by using your imagination and creativity as well as your schema to develop your own narrative. We will come back to this definition every so often, refining it as we go along.
The visuals we used to analyze in class today:
The Wedding Dance, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish, 1525/30 - 1569
The Window, Henry Matisse, French, 1869 - 1954
Lance Armstrong, Annie Liebovitz, American, 1949 -
The Window, Henry Matisse, French, 1869 - 1954
Lance Armstrong, Annie Liebovitz, American, 1949 -
Sarah Palin on the cover of the current Newsweek. Dated September 15, 2008.
We will be coming back to visual literacy throughout the semester so continue thinking about how you interpret visuals, whether symbolic or in form (such as text). I hope today was helpful in thinking about how you would enact this kind of literacy in the classroom.
As always, comment with questions!
As always, comment with questions!
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so we do not need to worry about the parent letter?
I haven't posted the parent letter guidelines yet. Stay tuned.
I think using visual literacy in the classroom is a great addition to any lesson plan. I was very engaged when we discussed different paintings/pictures. It gives students a chance to think and interpret what they think the meaning is...in most cases they will not be wrong since it is their own thought. I could see myself using paintings in the begining of my lesson to get my students excited about a topic. Overall, visual literacy is a great way to get students to imagine and make meaning. I am glad we discussed visual literacy and will use this concept in my classroom! :-)
I really enjoyed the powerpoint slides that we went through Thursday because the pictures were great examples and we created our own interpretation, this gave us a good way to use this strategy in the classroom. The pictures that you used were great and I'm glad you shared such various examples with us. I'm glad we didn't just have a lecture about visual literacy, we were able to engage in the strategy ourselves which makes the concept easier to grasp and understandable!
I really enjoyed the lesson on visual literacy. I really enjoyed how we first came up with words that visual literacy meant to us and then went on to create an actual definition. I liked how we were stretched to explain what the words meant to us, rather than just settling for a simple non-specific definition. I also liked how we were then forced to use the dimensions of visual literacy while looking at the pictures helped me to apply the terms. This is a technique I will remember for when I am a teacher. I hope to show my class definitions, rather than just give them a simple dictionary response. This was a very engaging lesson!
I thought this lesson was very engaging and really helped me "see" what visual literacy was and how to implement it. It helped me better understand its purpose and how to use it with students. I found it ironic that we were learning about this in Reading and when we went to art we also touched base on this. We discussed how to engage students in looking at art and asking them questions, trying to get them to create a story about a particular image. Without our lesson in class I would not have valued the importance of it and realized what its purpose was. Using these pictures helped me realize what our role is in helping students create visual literacy and how it helps engage them in using their imagination to create a story.
I just wanted to say that I really liked the lesson we did on visual literacy. I have never really looked at paintings or pictures before and really studied the meaning it was trying to put across. It is a different way of thinking and I think it is good to know how to lead a class discussion in this because it would be a good skill to teach my own students someday. It really makes you look at the deeper meaning in pictures and that can be a different type of learning technique different from the others.
I also noticed a HUGE connection between our art class this week and the visual literacy!! They seem to work together really well for both subjects and I definitely understand the concept of Visual Literacy thanks to both discussions and will know how to use it in my class.
The picture posted about ISTEP with the pencil made me think back to how I felt when I had to take those tests. It represents to me the anxiety I felt because I knew that the certain kind of tests I was taking wouldn't show the strengths of my knowledge. When I looked at the picture I was immediately drawn to the bite marks in the pencil, causing me wonder if most kids are as nervous as I was. Personally, I think those tests lack the importance of visual literacy. There is no way for the children to critically think about deeper meanings of anything they are learning, just trying to fill in bubbles of a timed test. The lessons about visual literacy made it clear how many different meanings words can have depending on what is being read or the child. This kind of learning can really bring out the creativity in each child, and bring significance to what is being read and what they are learning.
I think that it's good to use Visual Literacy in the classroom because it's interesting to students, but it also is a way to connect with different types of learners. One of the worries that I always had, and I am sure others did as well, was how to connect with all students when we are doing activities in the classroom. I would use this activity as one way to reach students who may not have gotten other activities that we had done.
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