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Lourdes Ornelas

2013 Conference : National Association for Media Literacy Education - 0 views

    • Lourdes Ornelas
       
      NAMLE Conference July 12-13 2013, Los Angeles
Tania Hinojosa

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization | Video on TED.com - 0 views

  • 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.
    • Tania Hinojosa
       
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    Great talk by David McCandless about visualization
Kate Spilseth

How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • 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.
Jenna Kubricht

Storyboard That - 0 views

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    Great tool for making storyboards with kids!!!!
Jenna Kubricht

ABCya - 0 views

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    Great friendly site to click on for learning about math and other concepts!!!
Tania Hinojosa

Duffelmeyer and Ellertson, Critical Visual Literacy - 0 views

  • 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
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  • 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
jennifer lee byrnes

Empowering Education with Video | eSchool News - 0 views

  • 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.
  • ideo can empower your teachers and students.
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    How videos are used to capture students attention and how students are using medial literacy to show understanding.
jennifer lee byrnes

Infographics for the Writing Classroom: The Basics | Learnist - 0 views

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    Great Idea for using infographics in education!
Jenna Kubricht

Google Power Searcher - 0 views

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