Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective Suzanne Stokes

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Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning A
Literature PerspectiveSuzanne Stokes

• Dr. Linda Larson
• California State University, Long Beach
• ETEC 523 / Spring 2003

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Content Visual Literacy

• Defined
• History
• Learner Differences
• Instructional Technology
• Research
• Variations

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What is visual literacy?

• Each group read section in article and pull out
  key terms

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Why should we care about visual literacy?
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What literacy skills do students need?

• Visual
• Print
• Aural
• Media
• Computer
• Information
• Cultural
• Social
• Ecoliteracy

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Connection between words and images

• Words are the images of things Simonides
• Without image, thinking is impossible-Aristotle
• Printing press-illustrations and text separated
• Attitude picture books

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Poem Activity

• Each group poem
• Create a visual(s) that conveys the meaning of
  the poem
• Share picture
• Class shares their interpretation of meaning of
  visual
• Is there a connection?
• Which is better at conveying meaning?

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Soundless Video Activity

• Watch the clip
• What happened?
• How do you know?

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Discuss and DrawVisual Literacy Research

• Directions
• Each group read their paragraph and draw a visual
  that depicts the content

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Variations in Visual Elements

• KWL Chart-KWhat we want to know, WWhat we want
  to learn, and LWhat we learned (Ogle, 1989)
• Visual organizers (visuals and text to depict
  patterns, concepts, and ideas-organizational
  framework to promote thinking and learning
  (Tarquin Walker) software (Inspiration)
• Story maps-vertical and horizontal flow of a
  story
• Venn Diagrams-similarities and differences
• Visual organizers
• Semantic maps (cluster, web, or word wall) helps
  students see how words relate to each other

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Excel Word

• Excel charts and graphs
• Word-Auto shapes

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So what?

• Using visuals in teaching and learning yields
  positive results
• Visuals must be relevant to content
• Teachers needs skills in how to teach visual
  literacy