David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections.
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.
Critical Visual Literacy: Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum"
makes the case for expanding the pedagogical space and communication
possibilities in undergraduate communication-intensive and linked (learning
community) courses by allowing students to create multimodal texts that deal
with civic and cultural and/or discipline-specific themes.
To
be literate in the twenty-first century means possessing the skills necessary
to effectively construct and comfortably navigate multiplicity, to manipulate
and critique information, representations, knowledge, and arguments in multiple
media from a wide range of sources, and to use multiple expressive technologies
including those offered by print, visual, and digital tools
Visual culture is not limited to the study of
images or media, but extends to everyday practices of seeing and showing,
especially those that we take to be immediate and unmediated
In our present culture, in which our information
often reaches us in technological and visual forms, the work Berlin described
above extends, in the 21st century, beyond exclusively and perhaps
even primarily written texts.
education [should] concentrate, not on the transfer of information nor on the
reproduction of value systems, but on the urgent task of equipping people with
the necessary "thinking tools" to make sense of historical processes so that
individuals may become better at assessing the "likely" verisimilitude of any
account or representation of the world
Critical Technological and Visual Literacies in CAC: An Organic Connection
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.