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Charmaine Weatherbee

Martin Scorsese on the Importance of Visual Literacy - YouTube - 0 views

    • Charmaine Weatherbee
       
      Visual Literacy in the eyes of filmmaker Martin Scorsese
claudia thomsen

RealtimeBoard - 0 views

shared by claudia thomsen on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • claudia thomsen
       
      AMAZING visualization tool to work in class! It's a digital whiteboard, the closest to what movies show (like Minority Report)
David Rueb

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Wallwisher Senbazuru - A New and Improved Digital... - 1 views

    • David Rueb
       
      I love that there's no login. I could see this used by students of all ages in a wide variety of subjects. They could post on a wall or create their own as well.
David Rueb

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Google Docs New Integrated Research Tool - 0 views

    • David Rueb
       
      Could be useful for helping students cite their sources.
David Rueb

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Common Core Connections: Unpacking Academic Vocab... - 0 views

    • David Rueb
       
      I like the find tool for use with vocabulary building in research or PYP projects.
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
Ruth Santiago

Why traditional media should be afraid of Twitter - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views

    • Ruth Santiago
       
      Traditional Media no match for Twitter? 
Ellie Molyneux

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche - The Atlantic - 1 views

    • Ellie Molyneux
       
      As a psychology major and sociology-oriented person, I am very interested in the impact that the feelings of connectedness and belonging that technology supports have on our ability to be alone and introspective. Maslow describes that after food, water, and shelter, feelings of connectedness  are the next priority in the list of human needs. If technology is there to provide these feelings of connectedness in moments of solitude (think late-night facebooking in bed) where we were instead usually reflecting and developing independence, self-reliance, and potentially self-confidence. If we are no longer ever really alone with ourselves, will we become addicted to finding ways to be connected? Given how much many of us, for lack of a more academic term, simply "freak out" when we can't find out cell phones, I wonder what the psychological trends will be. 
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    A response to a question many of us have been asking in our blog posts!
Rocio Salas

5 Tech-Friendly Lessons to Encourage Higher-Order Thinking -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • To this end, mobile apps and Web 2.0 tools can facilitate implementation of activities requiring students to use skills at the top three levels of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy--analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Here are five examples of activities that target these levels of the taxonomy and can be used with students across grade levels in a variety of content areas. Teachers of very young children can implement these ideas as whole class projects.
Pedro Aparicio

Infographics Explained With Legos - 0 views

  • Infographics are all over the web these days. Some are useful, some are not, and some are just plain fun. Yesterday, on Cool Infographics I discovered an infographic that explains what infographics should do. The fun and somewhat informative explanation of infographics is made using Legos. Check it out below.
    • Pedro Aparicio
       
      This is a very simple way to explain what infographics do. You can also find three tools to create your own infographics: easel.ly, infogr.am, visual.ly
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    I love this image. It definitely helps understand what infographics are.
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!
Pedro Aparicio

BBC News - Is data visualisation just style over substance? - 0 views

  • Is data visualisation just style over substance?

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    The advent of sophisticated computer graphics has encouraged more and more use of data-visualisation - not least by BBC News.

    The clever means of presenting detailed text or statistical information in a non-conventional manner is developing fast, but some critics argue the core message is lost beneath flashy graphics and misleading information.

    • Pedro Aparicio
       
      BBC News explains the use of more data visualization today. I really recommend to watch the video. It's worth.
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
Lourdes Ornelas

Blackboard Collaborate | Online Collaboration Software for Engaging, Collaborative Lear... - 0 views

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    another platform for virtual teaching
Lourdes Ornelas

Online Training Software - Virtual Classroom Software | Saba Classroom - 0 views

  • 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
    • Lourdes Ornelas
       
      ASF might want to consider
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    This company has a software which allows teaching classes through the internet in real time in a virtual class environment
Pedro Aparicio

State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet - 0 views

  • 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.
    • Pedro Aparicio
       
      This is a great tool to be used in science lessons, specially if you are teaching global climate change. For instance, you compare and contrast pictures from Mexico city in 1973 and 2009 to talk about urbanization.
Jenna Kubricht

Strategies to Enhance Visual Literacy in Science Education « ArtPlantae Today - 0 views

    • Jenna Kubricht
       
      "WHAT DO YOU SEE" is something I always ask my students, but never understood why. Now I know that pictures, diagrams, etc. are important to discuss with students!
  • Strategies to Enhance Visual Literacy in Science Education
  • the ability to interpret the diagrams, charts, tables and illustrations that accompany text.
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  • Why did the authors include this diagram? What do you see in this diagram? What in the diagram helps us to know what we are seeing? What can we learn about plant cells from the diagram? How does the artist show the cell is like a water-filled baggie and not flat like the paper? How does the artist draw the plant cell to show its depth?
  • What Do You See?, the dialogue between the teacher and her students is written out in detail and clearly demonstrates how purposeful questioning can support student understanding of diagrams and other graphics used in science textbooks.
Jenna Kubricht

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - 1 views

    • Lisa Stewart
       
      Outstanding! When you scroll over each element, a secondary image pops up. This resonates with me because it is a quick guide to all sorts of useful charts :)
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    a visual representation of all the different types of visualization
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    Fun and Creative way to display vsualization methods!
Carolina Montes

Free Technology for Teachers: State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet - 0 views

    • Carolina Montes
       
      This could be a great tool to be used in our Social Studies Classes, for Geography and Biology. To show how climate change and other disasters have influenced the way the world looks like.
Carolina Montes

Free Technology for Teachers: State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet - 0 views

  • State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet
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    Images of our changing planet
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