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Keri-Lee Beasley

Once Upon A Picture - Image prompts to inspire reading and writing - 0 views

www.onceuponapicture.co.uk

images visuals visual_literacy writing pictures photos

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 07 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 07 Jun 17
     
    Some great images for students to use as inspiration for their writing.
Keri-Lee Beasley

It's Beatlemania in Google Earth - 0 views

blog.google/...its-beatlemania-google-earth

Beatles google_earth tour visual_literacy visualization

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 29 May 17 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 29 May 17
     
    Beatles fans have got to check this out...
Keri-Lee Beasley

RESEARCH: Great Search Sites - 3 views

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research design search kids visual_literacy

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 May 17 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 May 17
     
    Laura Whiteley's great research sites for students. Super roundup, presented in such a visual way.
David Caleb

Reading photographs - 1 views

www.learnnc.org/677

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shared by David Caleb on 03 Nov 16 - Cached
  • Photographs have tremendous power to communicate information. But they also have tremendous power to communicate misinformation, especially if we’re not careful how we read them. Reading photographs presents a unique set of challenges. Students can learn to use questions to decode, evaluate, and respond to photographic images.
  • What happened just before this moment, or just after it?
  • The photograph of a crowd of jubilant Iraqis toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, is one of the most common images of the recent war in Iraq. A closeup shot shows a crowd of primarily Iraqis toppling the statue. A wide shot of the same scene would have revealed that the crowd in the square was made up of primarily US forces and journalists.
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  • One type of photography in which setting is very important is travel photography.
  • Using landmarks, monuments, or famous natural elements in a photograph is a core technique for evoking a sense of place.
  • The photographer selects the focal point not only by focusing the camera but also through other techniques.
  • shutter speed to bring only one element into focus immediately elevates that to the most important part of the image.
  • one element in the photograph is strongly backlit, it may seem to glow and thus draw the viewer’s attention.
  • What is the photographer’s thought process as she composes, frames, shoots and selects an image? Listen as photographer Lisa Maizlish narrates the decisions she made in photographing the students featured on the PBS reality show American High.
  • viewers have to decide how to interpret a photograph’s context
  • information about the people, events, setting, and so on are made explicit by the photographer — there are distinct visual clues that tell us who the people are, what they are doing, and where and when the photograph was taken.
  • implicit — implied but not clearly communicated by the photographer, or left to be inferred by the viewer.
  • identities of the people
  • unclear
  • their purpose may be unknown
  • time and place may be difficult or impossible to discern.
  • simple "W" questions can be open to debate.
  • Viewers may not even realize that they are making those assumptions
  • Just as successful written communication requires that the writer and reader speak the same language, successful visual communication requires that the photographer and viewer share a common "visual language" of signs, clues, and assumptions.
  • Were your assumptions correct? Can you always trust your first instinct? (And even having read the caption, how much do we really know about these girls and their lives?)
  • a different culture might ask why this round brown object is
  • we have to be careful that we have enough cultural background in common with the photographer to correctly interpret what we see.
  • The photograph by itself tells us very little about what’s going on; we probably could have invented any number of captions, and you’d have believed us!
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 03 Nov 16
     
    Reading images - lots of good strategies here
  • David Caleb on 07 Nov 16
     
    Reading photos
Keri-Lee Beasley

Literacy Beyond Reading & Writing - Heart of a Teacher - 1 views

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literacy reading writing professional_development technology media_literacy visual_literacy

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Nov 16
     
    "Do our students know that "literacy" moves beyond reading and writing? Most importantly, how do we begin to break our traditional understanding of literacy to include wider meaning and contexts? It has to start in the classroom. For many of our traditional classrooms, reading and writing are the core values that are focused on when it comes to literacy. We need to show students that "Literacy" moves beyond reading and writing and can encompass: cultural literacy, media literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy and much more."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Are You A Visual Thinker? - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Nov 16
     
    Incredible video about people who are visual thinkers (estimated to be over 60% of the population). Great pre-cursor to visual note-taking.
Keri-Lee Beasley

iPad Conference 2016 | itisallaboutart - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Nov 16
     
    Nicki Hambleton's fabulous collection of resources to support Visual Thinking
Sean McHugh

The Scientific Case For Teaching Cursive Handwriting to Your Kids Is Weaker Than You Think - 2 views

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teaching handwriting research

shared by Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • here is ample evidence that writing by hand aids cognition in ways that typing does not: It’s well worth teaching. And I confess I’m old-fashioned enough to think that, regardless of proven cognitive benefits, a good handwriting style is an important and valuable skill, not only when your laptop batteries run out but as an expression of personality and character.
  • if they have the time and inclination.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      But should we be dedicating swathes of curriculum time towards this? Surely not.
  • what teachers “know” about how children learn is sometimes more a product of the culture in which they’re immersed than a result of research and data.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Never were truer words written.
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  • What does research say on these issues? It has consistently failed to find any real advantage of cursive over other forms of handwriting
  • our real understanding of how children respond to different writing styles is surprisingly patchy and woefully inadequate
  • Evidence supports teaching both formats of handwriting and then letting each student choose which works best for him or her
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Shouldn't we include touch typing here as well?
  • So was cursive faster than manuscript? No, it was slower. But fastest of all was a personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript developed spontaneously by pupils around the fourth to fifth grade
  • They had apparently imbibed manuscript style from their reading experience (it more closely resembles print), even without being taught it explicitly
  • While pupils writing in cursive were slower on average, their handwriting was also typically more legible than that of pupils taught only manuscript. But the mixed style allowed for greater speed with barely any deficit in legibility.
  • The grip that cursive has on teaching is sustained by folklore and prejudice
  • for typical children, there’s some reason to think manuscript has advantages
  • freeing up cognitive resources that are otherwise devoted to the challenge of simply making the more elaborate cursive forms on paper will leave children more articulate and accurate in what they write
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Likewise if they can touch-type instead of wrestling with ascenders and descenders...
  • the difference in appearance between cursive and manuscript could inhibit the acquisition of reading skills, making it harder for children to transfer skills between learning to read and learning to write because they simply don’t see cursive in books.
  • There’s good evidence, both behavioral and neurological, that a “haptic” (touch-related) sense of letter shapes can aid early reading skills, indicating a cognitive interaction between motor production and visual recognition of letters. That’s one reason, incidentally, why it’s valuable to train children to write by hand at all, not just to use a keyboard.
  • even if being taught both styles might have some advantages, it’s not clear that those cognitive resources and classroom hours couldn’t be better deployed in other ways.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      In other ways... the time it takes for kids to learn cursive, spread over years, compared to the relatively short time it takes to master touch-typing being a case in point.
  • that cursive is still taught primarily because of parental demand and tradition, rather than because there is any scientific basis for its superiority in learning
  • inertia and preconceptions seem to distort perception and policy at the expense of the scientific evidence
  • How much else in education is determined by what’s “right,” rather than what’s supported by evidence?
  • Beliefs about cursive are something of a hydra: You cut off one head, and another sprouts. These beliefs propagate through both the popular and the scientific literature, in a strange mixture of uncritical reporting and outright invention, which depends on myths often impossible to track to a reliable source.
  • the reasons to reject cursive handwriting as a formal part of the curriculum far outweigh the reasons to keep it.
  • This must surely lead us to wonder how much else in education is determined by a belief in what is “right,” unsupported by evidence.
  • it’s often the case that the very lack of hard, objective evidence about an issue, especially in the social sciences, encourages a reliance on dogma instead
  • There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
  • Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
     
    There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
Keri-Lee Beasley

Thinking Visually: Keyword Searches and Images | Ms. Pana Says - 1 views

mspanasays.com/ly-keyword-searches-and-images

design graphic_design visual_literacy early_years search haikudeck technology literacy

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 Nov 15
     
    Pana has a great lesson plan for linking keywords, searching and visuals for G1 students.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading - Scientific American - 0 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...k-the-speed-barrier-of-reading

visual_literacy literacy technology comprehension reading

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now — has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our information age.
  • search for innovative engineering solutions aimed at making reading more efficient and effective for more people
  • But then, by chance, I discovered that when I used the small screen of a smartphone to read my scientific papers required for work, I was able to read with much greater facility and ease.
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  • hen, in a comprehensive study of over 100 high school students with dyslexia done in 2013, using techniques that included eye tracking, we were able to confirm that the shortened line formats produced a benefit for many who otherwise struggled with reading.
  • For example, Marco Zorzi and his colleagues in Italy and France showed in 2012 that when letter spacing is increased to reduce crowding, children with dyslexia read more effectively.
  • A clever web application called Beeline Reader, developed by Nick Lum, a lawyer from San Francisco, may accomplish something similar using colors to guide the reader’s attention forward along the line.  Beeline does this by washing each line of text in a color gradient, to create text that looks a bit like a tie-dyed tee-shirt.
  • one aims to increase the throughput of the brain’s reading buffers by changing their capacity for information processing, while the other seeks to activate alternate channels for reading that will allow information to be processed in parallel, and thereby increase the capacity of the language processing able to be performed during reading. 
  • The brain is said to be plastic, meaning that it is possible to change its abilities.
  • people can be taught to roughly double their reading speed, without compromising comprehension.
  • Consider that we process language, first and foremost, through speech. And yet, in the traditional design of reading we are forced to read using our eyes. Even though the brain already includes a fully developed auditory pathway for language, the traditional design for reading makes little use of the auditory processing capabilities of the brain
  • While the visual pathways are being strained to capacity by reading, the auditory network for language remains relatively under-utilized.
  • Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15
     
    "Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Viewing Art to Start Students Reading | 4 O'Clock Faculty - 1 views

fouroclockfaculty.com/...-art-to-start-students-reading

visual_literacy literacy technology comprehension art images visuals

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Replacing written text with artwork, photographs, or illustrations offers a number of advantages, especially early in the school year.  Visual imagery is very accessible and a lot less intimidating to a wide range of learners including non-readers, struggling readers, and English language learners. This enables these students a greater chance to practice some of the forms of complex thinking that they will need as the year progresses such as using text evidence, identifying theme, and making connections.
  • Another advantage the visual imagery has over written text is that it is very fast to decode.
  • Artworks can and should be treated just as a written text. By doing so, students can get their academic thinking started early, laying a foundation for them to build on throughout their school year.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Sep 15
     
    Interesting blog post advocating for the use of analysing images in support of literacy skills.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using New Technology to Rediscover Traditional Ways of Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...l-ways-learning-stacey-goodman

visual_literacy literacy technology storytelling gesture dance

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Sep 15
     
    Mobile tech helps us reconnect with traditional ways of learning: Oral storytelling Visual literacy Gestures, dance & the body
Keri-Lee Beasley

How to Arrange Presentation Slides Like a Graphic Designer | Visual Learning Center by Visme - 1 views

blog.visme.co/-professional-graphic-designer

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 17 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 17 Aug 15
     
    Presentation design advice
Adrienne Michetti

Diagrammer | Duarte - 1 views

www.duarte.com/diagrammer

Duarte diagrams visualization presentation visual

shared by Adrienne Michetti on 23 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 11 Jun 15
     
    Over 4000 free diagrams for visualization. Love it!
Keri-Lee Beasley

21 Ways to Teach With Photos - 1 views

www.weareteachers.com/...to-use-photos-in-the-classroom

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 25 May 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 25 May 15
     
    Great ideas to use visual language with photos in the classroom
Keri-Lee Beasley

Is Your Writing Pinteresting? 3 Uncommon Ways to Curate Literary Characters - Brilliant or Insane - 0 views

www.brilliant-insane.com/...urate-literary-characters.html

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 10 May 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 10 May 15
     
    A visually-rich way of developing characters for writing using Pinterest.
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