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"We live in a visual world. Smartphones, television, Internet, and social media all push information in real-time, all the time. Visual media bombard us in constant streams. Learners of every age, therefore, need to understand how to analyze pictorial information. This skill of parsing images, interpreting pictures, and decoding diagrams is known as graphicacy."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Learn more about graphicacy in this post by ASIDE. There is a short motion graphic (explainer video) that provides an overview what visual literacy is...a way to encode/decode images and the ability to analyze visual information are two components. Research makes it clear that we have many visual learners in our classrooms (~65%). In addition "the brain processes optic inputs 60,000 times faster than text." This post provides links to a number of articles that ASIDE has published that discuss graphicacy and provide great resources. You will also find information in ASIDE on creating infographics with students as young as Grade 2. 
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"The expanded availability of easy tech tools has empowered educators to rethink homework and daily instruction. Flipping the classroom with teacher-made videos allows students to self-direct their at-home learning. Many of these clips, however, still involve a one-day delivery of information, from teacher to student. Another approach is to allow children to make their own educational videos. They can enlighten their classmates with their creations, and they can teach themselves the material and the skills during the process of production."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Have you considered having students use the Adobe Voice app (iPad) to create materials that others may use to review work? This post shares how one school has done this with 8th grade students and provides 3 videos embedded in the post as well as a link to a page where you can see more student work. The post also discussed "four key proficiencies" that students may demonstrate as they create an Adobe Voice video: * Symbolic and visual metaphor - in choosing images and/or icons and their definitions of words students are demonstrating understanding of figurative meaning. * Narrative - students narrate their story and provide images that seamlessly move from one point to another within the story. * Text- students select key text, highlighting vocabulary. * Design - students learn critical elements necessary to convey content. Elements may include, music, images, voice, color, transitions, layout and more.
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"Financial literacy is about much more than balancing one's (online) checkbook. Financial literacy represents a cross-curricular mindset, a sophisticated understanding of how money, media, and messaging unite in the public sphere."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Can we teach students in elementary and middle school the concepts of financial literacy? With the right resources the answer would be yes. ASIDE has provided a range of excellent resources in this post. You will find an excellent infographic that covers the Story of Money, beginning with bartering animal hides and teeth as well as shells up to a gold coin minted in Australia in 2011 that weighs (take a breath) 2,231 pounds. (There is a great math problem to be solved.) A number of videos are also provided. One looks at student debt and one is a TED-Ed video. There are also additional resources provided. Financial literacy is an important concept for students to learn, and I would think the earlier they understand the concepts the better off they will be. To learn more click through to the post.
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I"Adobe Voice may be the app we've been waiting for. This effortless video creator may finally fulfill the promise of tablet computing. With a simple, intuitive interface and clean, effective visuals, the Adobe Voice app allows anyone to design animated videos in minutes. It finally turns the iPad into a seamless device for content creation, not just content display or interaction."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you interested in having your students create motion graphics (also called video graphics)? Do you have access to iPads? If so, go over to the Apple Store and download Adobe's new app Adobe Voice, and you may find yourself with an easy tool that will provide you and your students the ability to create create videos.
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The whole field of visual literacy and interpretation has exploded in the last 25 years. It is time to recognize its value and teach our students not only the ability to decipher and interpret them, but to create them as well.
Thx Beth Dichter