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Each word is accompanied by a sentence in which the word is used and, in some cases, defined, and has a brief video illustrating the concept.

eading Bear links abstract concepts and visual images in a way that reminds educato

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.”

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

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.

If you're teaching lessons on climate change and human impact on the landscape, State of Flux could be a handy resource. Along with each set of images there is a caption about the area and the significance of the images. You could show some of the images to students without revealing the captions and ask them to propose ideas accounting for the causes of the changes they're seeing.

What you can do with Saba Classroom Build classes quickly Improve interaction Record and reuse classes High satisfaction and retention rates Leverage existing LMS investments Open APIs for third-party integration

his movie was made to inspire teachers of all subject areas to appreciate the opportunity for learning using visual imagery in their classes.

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.

Mind mapping. concept mapping, or brainstorming are three different names with almost the same meaning : collecting,organizing , and  representing ideas, tasks, words, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea into a mind map diagram .

Mind mapping enables teachers to manipulate ideas and concepts with great ease and flexibility

It helps present information in a visually attracting and comprehensive way

The Visual Thinking Revolution is Here!