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Kate Spilseth

Textual Literacy vs. Digital Literacy « Literacy 2.0 - 0 views

  • When it comes to traditional literacy we have thousands of years of experience to draw on and thousands of generations of literates to learn from. T
  • Other than in the area of basic computer and Internet skills it is difficult to find agreement on exactly what digital literacy is or what needs to be learned simply because it is so heavily contextual and changing so rapidly. If textual were evolving as fast digital we would need a new grammar book each week.
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    The article states the huge differences between textual literacy and digital literacy.
Charmaine Weatherbee

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

  • Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively
  • the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings
  • Digital and visual literacies are the next wave of communication specialization
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  • Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they learn without realizing they are learning it.
  • ommon scenario today is a classroom filled with digitally literate students being led by linear-thinking, technologically stymied instructors
  • The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu
  • Digital literacy represents a person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment, with “digital” meaning information represented in numeric form and primarily for use by a computer. Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. According to Gilster,5 the most critical of these is the ability to make educated judgments about what we find online.Visual literacy, referred to at times as visual competencies, emerges from seeing and integrating sensory experiences. Focused on sorting and interpreting—sometimes simultaneously—visible actions and symbols, a visually literate person can communicate information in a variety of forms and appreciate the masterworks of visual communication.6 Visually literate individuals have a sense of design—the imaginative ability to create, amend, and reproduce images, digital or not, in a mutable way. Their imaginations seek to reshape the world in which we live, at times creating new realities. According to Bamford,7 “Manipulating images serve[s] to re-code culture.”
Tania Hinojosa

Media Literacy Defined : National Association for Media Literacy Education - 1 views

  • eries of communication competencies, including the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms, including print and non-print messages.
  • Media literacy empowers people to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of an increasingly wide range of messages using image, language, and sound. It is the skillful application of literacy skills to media and technology messages.
  • Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages. Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and to synthesize and analyze messages. Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and the ability to synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages. Media education is the study of media, including ‘hands on’ experiences and media production. Media literacy education is the educational field dedicated to teaching the skills associated with media literacy.
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  • Media literacy: The ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms-is interdisciplinary by nature
  • To become a successful student, responsible citizen, productive worker, or competent and conscientious consumer, individuals need to develop expertise with the increasingly sophisticated information and entertainment media that address us on a multi-sensory level, affecting the way we think, feel, and behave.
  • Today’s information and entertainment technologies communicate to us through a powerful combination of words, images, and sounds
  • understanding our media environment.
Mariana Perez Galan

Visual literacy - 2 views

    • Jenna Kubricht
       
      Creative idea for students to use disposable camera and take pictures at home, school, wherever, and have discussions about what they saw!
  • e disposable cameras to capture instances of when they used literacy at home.
  • exploring and adding to knowledge
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  • creating a statement of identity
  • personal enjoyment
  • cementing relationships
  • organising domestic routines
  • Using visual literacy can result in: increased quantity of writing increased quality of writing wider use of vocabulary greater use of imagery increased fluency more adventurous writing improved attitude to writing greater engagement with writing greater commitment to writing improved motivation, self-esteem and enthusiasm.
  • Use of images can be a powerful tool in the teacher’s toolbox. It can stimulate children’s discussion and motivate their interest.
  • There are also many cross-curricular opportunities to link visual literacy with other core subjects.
  • Visual images are fast becoming the most predominant form of communication
  • ‘Young people learn more than half of what they know from visual information, but few schools have an explicit curriculum to show students how to think critically about visual data.
  • facial expressions, body language, drawing, painting, sculpture, hand signs, street signs, international symbols, layout of the pictures and words in a textbook, the clarity of type fonts, computer images, pupils producing still pictures, sequences, movies or video, user-friendly equipment design and critical analysis of television advertisements.
  • purposeful writing – writing which motivates, is purposeful, relevant and has an audience
  • not only teachers modelling but writing for pupils and alongside them. This leads onto the idea of teachers as talkers; modelling talk and valuing talk and its role in writing
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    Jenna, this is an excellent article, I really enjoyed reading it, it gave me some insight on visual literacy and how important it is for children to, not only develop the skills to be visually literate but to be exposed to it at home and school in the correct way.
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    I just loved this article! it made it easy for me to understand the term visual literacy and what and how to use it in class. I stole this post from Jenna K. but please take some time to look at it!
anonymous

MEDIA LITERACY QUOTES - 0 views

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    "Media literacy empowers people to be both critical thinkers and creative producers  of an increasingly wide range of messages using image, language, and sound. It is  the skillful application of literacy skills to media and technology messages. As  communication technologies transform society, they impact our understanding  of ourselves, our communities, and our diverse cultures, making media literacy  an essential life skill for the 21st century." (The Alliance for A Media Literate America, 2000) 
Tania Hinojosa

What is Visual Literacy? | Picture This! Visual Literacy in the Classroom - 0 views

  • Visual Literacy, “a person’s ability to interpret and create visual information—to understand images of all kinds and use them to communicate more effectively,
  • efines visual literacy as “a learned skill, not an intuitive one. It doesn’t just happen. O
  • When we teach for visual literacy, we involve children in thinking about and expressing in images what is often beyond linguistic capabilities
Jenna Kubricht

School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Visual Literacy and the Classroom - 0 views

  • 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
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  • implementing visual and sound elements into texts.
  • Some students displayed high level graphics manipulation using skills they taught themselves, an indicator of high motivation.
  • teachers empower their students with the necessary tools to thrive in increasingly media-varied environments.
  • Advertisers understand how to reach youngsters (and really, just about anyone) far better than educators.
  • Just as the visual language of point and click and scroll has become transparent and embedded into modern culture, so have the messages to buy Coke and shop at the Gap.
  • What am I looking at? What does this image mean to me? What is the relationship between the image and the displayed text message? How is this message effective?
  • Moreover, visual literacy instruction will better prepare students for the dynamic and constantly changing online world they will inevitably be communicating through.
Lisa Stewart

Examining Visual Literacy at Lesley University | Our Design - Thoughts, Objectives and ... - 0 views

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    podcast - understaning visual literacy
Lisa Stewart

Developing Visual Literacy In The Classroom - 0 views

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    short slideshare powerpoint about developing visual literacy in the classroom. 
Fátima Caballero

Fair Use and Media Literacy Education | Center for Social Media - 0 views

  • Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant
  • The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy, based on scores of longform interviews with teachers, shows that the fundamental goals of media literacy education—to cultivate critical thinking and expression about media and its social role—are compromised by unnecessary copyright restrictions
Jenna Kubricht

Visual Literacy - 1 views

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    "We are a visually illiterate society. … Three R's are no  longer enough. Our world is changing fast... Visual literacy is the ability to learn visually"
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    "Visual Literacy = Reading Pictures" "Understand the main idea or message in visual literacy" "Photo Analysis Worksheet" activity "Is Seeing Believing?" Photoshop? "Magazine Covers as symbolic representations" "Manipulation of images and words in advertisements"
Tania Hinojosa

International Visual Literacy Association - 1 views

    • Lourdes Ornelas
       
      Consider joining!
  • Welcome to the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) web site. IVLA is a not-for-profit association of researchers, educators, designers, media specialists, and artists dedicated to the principles of visual literacy.
  • exchange of information related to visual literacy
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  • oncerned with issues dealing with education, instruction and training in modes of visual communication and their application through the concept of visual literacy to individuals, groups, organizations, and to the public in general.
Lourdes Ornelas

Visual Literacy Across the Curriculum - YouTube - 0 views

    • Tania Hinojosa
       
      Facilitate the cognitive development of you students using images
    • Tania Hinojosa
       
      Visual Literacy Across the Curriculum How does the images affects the learning process?
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    Visual Literacy Across the Curriculum
anonymous

Visual Literacy | Scoop.it - 2 views

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    Images, lesson plans, ideas, infographics and other resources to use when developing visual literacy in kids. 
Kate Spilseth

Acquiring Media Literacy and Using Technology | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classr... - 0 views

  • Having students become media literate across school subjects has been talked about since the early 1960s but has hardly made a dent in lessons that most teachers teach
  • Geller encouraged the students to look at Wikipedia, but skeptically
  • You should not always trust the first thing you see!”
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  • That’s why you use two sources
  • technology didn’t spur students, it was the teacher’s questions about candy ads and a textbook passage about Hitler becoming Chancellor that mattered. Laptops and an interactive white board didn’t motivate students to become media literate, the teachers did.
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    An argument for the implementation of media literacy in schools.
Isabel Fernandez

Redefining Literacy: When the Arts and Core Curriculum Collide | Edutopia - 0 views

  • We have begun to introduce students to the language of the arts, and we have placed the acquisition of this language alongside the traditional forms of literacy and numeracy. Now I'm beginning to see some exciting things happen: Students are beginning to use the language of the arts to critique their own work and the work of others. For instance, students have been watching segments from the television show So You Think You Can Dance and writing formal critiques in response. Students are starting to use the elements and principles of the language of the arts to connect various forms of creative communication. For example, they are comparing balance in dance with balance in graphic design. They are making connections between melody in music and lines in dance and visual arts. These intertextual connections are powerful literacy moments for us all. Generally speaking, students are turning to artistic forms of expression in other curriculum areas. Dance and the visual arts have become part of our geographical lexicon as we explore the theme of migration. Drama and music have found their way into our exploration of cells in science.
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    The language of the arts in other subjects
Isabel Fernandez

Martin Scorsese on the Importance of Visual Literacy | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Scorsese: The importance of teaching visual literacy
Kate Spilseth

From Digital Literacy to Media Fluency -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • Increasingly, institutions are seeing their students not only as consumers but also as creators of digital media--requiring a greater fluency in the use of new media tools.
  • It used to be necessary to learn how to type so that you could write your papers and use Microsoft Word…. Now, we teach [students] the technical foundation of the media-creation tools and then build upon that." --
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    This article stresses the importance of digital and media literacy and the value of creating as well as viewing.
Pedro Aparicio

Visual Literacy by Tom Anderson on Prezi - 0 views

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      This Prezi presentation is easy to understand. If you teach in Lower School this is a good example to introduce visual literacy into your curriculum.
Luis Leon

Google Reader (151) - 0 views

  • 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
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  • I now have students picking the stories they want, and recording themselves recording - recording is created on a regular computer with a webcam
  • This session will focus on demonstrating a variety of portable devices, apps and software that are available to support reading across all age ranges and ability levels.
  • including visual presentation,
  • Participants will leave with an understanding of how to compare the features of these electronic reading supports to help them in deciding what option will work best to support specific student needs.
  • iPads - Kindle Fire - Nook - Tablets
  • nformation literacy skills and self-views of ability among first-year college students."Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63 (3), 574–583. "This study replicates a previous study based on work in psychology, which demonstrates that students who score as below proficient in information literacy (IL) skills have a miscalibrated self-view of their ability. Simply stated, these students tend to believe that they have above-average IL skills, when, in fact, an objective test of their ability indicates that they are below-proficient in terms of their actual skills
  • To plant the tree you have to dig soil, fertilize, and water your seeds
  • When your virtual trees are fully grown Tree Planet and its partners will plant a real tree in Mongolia, Republic of Sudan, or South Korea. Tree Planet has partnerships with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and World Vision.
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