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We need to look at the whole world of communication in a more complete way. We need to take art and music out of "the arts class" and put it into the English class. For instance, the various forms of communication form a circle. On one end of this circle is math, the least emotional of all forms of communication. It's very strict and very concise, and has a very precise way of explaining something. Then you start moving around the circle, and you get to the other end, where we have music, which primarily appeals to your emotions, not to your intellect. So, in this great circle of communication, you go from the emotional end of music and painting and art -- the visual forms of communication -- to the written communication and spoken communication. Finally, you end up at math, which is the most precise. It forms a beautiful circle of communication. But it's all part of the same circle. All these forms of communication are extremely important, and they should be treated that way. Unfortunately, we've moved away from teaching the emotional forms of communication. But if you want to get along in this world, you need to have a heightened sense of emotional intelligence, which is the equal of your intellectual intelligence. One of my concerns is that we're advancing intellectually very fast, but we're not advancing emotionally as quickly.

hey need to understand a new language of expression

e disposable cameras to capture instances of when they used literacy at home.

exploring and adding to knowledge

School systems also are increasingly using video on their web sites to keep parents informed about school events—and many educators are using video to bring lessons alive for their students.

ideo can empower your teachers and students.

Literacy” usually means the ability to read and write

, but it can also refer to the ability to “read” kinds of signs other than words — for example, images or gestures

Visual literacy is the ability to see, to understand, and ultimately to think, create, and communicate graphically.

But the obvious thing to do was to evolve the potential of this very stable listserv in a number of social media ways. While I am not sure which of these will be the favourites, the idea looks something like this: share a link on the listserv and store it for easy retrieval any time in the Diigo group! share your library images in Flickr, because we need to collect the ideas from around Australia Like us on Facebook – and include us in your News Feed. Share things you find, and get into the conversation. Perhaps 140 characters on Twitter will be just the thing for you – just another way to stay in touch and build the teacher librarian community.

Most K-12 classrooms in the United States today don’t use interactive blogs. By “interactive,” I mean a blog website which permits posts from students as well as the teacher, and comments from blog visitors as well as class members. As I explained in my post earlier this week on the iThemes education blog,

The past two months, I’ve had opportunities to ask different groups of educators the same question via an interactive SMS poll powered by PollEverywhere. The question I’ve asked has been: How many different assignments last year did you invite students to share on your interactive, classroom blog? The graph below summarizes responses in early June in Fort Bend ISD, which is in Houston, Texas. Of 156 respondents, 78% answered “zero.”

Strategies to Enhance Visual Literacy in Science Education

the ability to interpret the diagrams, charts, tables and illustrations that accompany text.

Share student work.  Parents don’t go to a Christmas Concert to see the teacher; they go to see their child.  If you give them opportunities to see different work from students, they are more likely to be interested in the places you are communicating then by simply posting homework assignments.  Make opportunities for parents to look at the learning and creation that is happening in schools to make it more meaningful for them.

The following five-step “Describe-Identify-Interpret-Evaluate-Reflect” process can help students: Understand and interpret the visual images they see in the world around them Develop critical thinking skills, particularly in regards to visual images Enhance their observation and interpretive skills Develop conceptual learning techniques

It can be used to guide students’ analysis of any visual image, including visual art, photographs, political cartoons, propaganda posters, video clips, and film

Step one: Preparatio

Make Your Grandparents Proud

I saw a banner posted in the hallway of an elementary school this week that read, “Is This Your Best Work? Make Your Grandparents Proud.”

this school community is helping children build habits of meaningful self-reflection and consistent good effort, and teaching them to show and share pride in their learning.

reading and writing will most likely remain at the heart of standard literacy education, educators should reconsider what it means to be literate in the technological age

students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, and economic life.

Anyone who has suffered through an 8pt text-jammed PowerPoint presentation can recognize the delicate balance between verbal and visual

Students get to share their ideas in a way they can be proud of. Blogging is great for this because the posts are read not only by classmates, but also by anyone else who stumbles upon them online. Blogging promotes the development of good writing skills, so helping students take ownership of the project can help them write well. Blogging provides students with an outlet for things they may not get to share in the classroom, so giving looser guidelines on topics can bring about more interesting blog posts.

Gaming teaches students survival skills that they use in school and throughout their lives

Practical skills

There is something about the touch environment that lets the kids interact so much easier with digital content

Those who can interact and create are the ones who will be most successful in our society

We work a lot on internal motivation and individual goal setting - when kids feel vested toward a goal they usually work toward it

owerful as words are, we fool ourselves when we think our words alone can detect, describe, and defuse the multifaceted problems of today. They can’t – and that’s bad, because words have become our default thinking tool.

What do leaders today do to clarify their ideas? They talk, talk, talk, talk. We’ve come to equate intelligence with our ability to speak. That’s a big mistake.

Human teachers and tutors are susceptible to what cognitive scientists call the “expert blind spot” — once we’ve mastered a body of knowledge, it’s hard to imagine what novices don’t know — but computers have no such mental block.

A computer never gets impatient or annoyed. But it never gets excited or enthusiastic either.

SSISTments and other computerized tutoring systems have focused primarily on math, a subject suited to computers’ binary language.

Jack Shulze of Berg says the map exploits today's higher levels of visual literacy from games, television and comics. Part of his purpose, he says, was "an exploration into way-finding devices." He writes about his influences here. It's a great image. To me it's also a great metaphor for one of statistics' all-time headaches: how to make aggregate data that describes whole populations, their lives, chances and risks, feel real and relevant to everyone's sense of "me, here, now".

Notches cut into each wheel will also be aligned. These notches form a gap that will allow the lock to release and open. Pin-and-tumbler locks are different, because they require a key to unlock them. Basic pin-and-tumbler locks have several spring-loaded pins inside a series of small cylinders. When the right key slides into a pin-and-tumbler lock, the pointed teeth and notches on the blade of the key allow the spring-loaded pins to move up and down until they line up with a track called the shear line. When the pins align with the shear line, the cylinder can turn and the lock will open.