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Mariana Perez Galan

Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 1 views

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shared by Mariana Perez Galan on 08 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
    • Pedro Aparicio
      Pedro Aparicio on 16 Sep 12
       
      As educators we need to have visual, written and spoken forms of communication in our classrooms. It is vital to work on emotional intelligence to find out about how our kids are feeling at the moment.
  • hey need to understand a new language of expression
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  • Our system of education is locked in a time capsule.
  • we also need to understand the importance of graphics, music, and cinema
  • What do students need to be learning that they're not
  • Knowing these things is as important as knowing what a verb and a subject are, what a period and an exclamation point mean.
  • ut there are rules for telling a story visually that are just as important as grammatical rules or math terms, and you can test people on them as well. There is grammar in film, there is grammar in graphics, there is grammar in music, just like there are rules in math that can be taught. For instance, what emotion does the color red convey? What about blue? What does a straight line mean? How about a diagonal line?
  • They need to understand a new language of expression. The way we are educating is based on nineteenth-century ideas and methods. Here we are, entering the twenty-first century, and you look at our schools and ask, 'Why are we doing things in this ancient way?' Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
  • How do we bring these lessons into the classroom? 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.
  • We must accept the fact that learning how to communicate with graphics, with music, with cinema, is just as important as communicating with words. Understanding these rules is as important as learning how to make a sentence work.
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  • Charmaine Weatherbee on 17 Sep 12
     
    Talks about the importance of the language of images  and visual references.
  • Lisa Stewart on 19 Sep 12
     
    George Lucas advocating for visual literacy!  This is a man who knows how important it is to be sucessfull in this area! 
  • Mariana Perez Galan on 23 Sep 12
     
    We need to keep up with constant change, technology, methods, discoveries, We need to teach our children how everything that surrounds them is a powerful tool for them to comprehend the world.
Isabel Fernandez

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

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shared by Isabel Fernandez on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Isabel Fernandez on 19 Sep 12
     
    The language of the arts in other subjects
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