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"The misconceptions about visual thinking are alarming. On one hand, this critical skill seems integral for contemporary learning, since almost every modern input is visual in nature. Yet this key proficiency seems almost entirely absent from state standards and daily classroom lessons."
Beth Dichter's insight:
What is visual thinking? How can we teach visual thinking to our learners? ASIDE has an excellent post that provides five presentations that explore visual thinking from different perspectives. All of them share information on the "the power of visuals to craft a layered approach toward teaching with creative design." The five presentations (all from slideshare) are: * Visual Thinking Presentation * Visual Thinking and the Writing Process * Visual Thinking for Brainstorming, Planning, Learning, Collaborating, Harvesting * An Introduction to Visual Thinking * Visual Thinking Help us to... Each of these presentations provides a different viewpoint. Many of our learners are visual learners today. This post will provide you with great resources to help them hone the skill of visual thinking (and will also help you). 
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Scoop.it!
"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.
Nancy Jones's curator insight,
March 25, 2015 12:17 PM
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. |
Sketch notaking is just one way!
Thx Beth Dichter