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Casual, distant, aesthetically limited: 5 ways smartphone photography is changing how we see the world
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<div class="timestamps">Published: November 26, 2023 2.20pm EST…</div>
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<span class="attribution"><span class="source">T.J. Thomson</span></span><br />
<div class="magazine-title"><div class="wrapper"><div><div class="content-header-block"><h1 class="legacy entry-title instapaper_title"><strong>Casual, distant, aesthetically limited: 5 ways smartphone photography is changing how we see the world</strong></h1>
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<div class="timestamps">Published: November 26, 2023 2.20pm EST</div>
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<li class="vcard" id="author-544334"><a rel="author" href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/t-j-thomson-503845"><img alt="" class=" lazyloaded" src="https://cdn.theconversation.com/avatars/503845/width170/image-20220224-23-1rkibcm.jpg"/><span class="fn author-name">T.J. Thomson</span></a><p class="role">Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University</p>
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<li class="vcard" id="author-544814"><a rel="author" href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/shehab-uddin-1489526"><img alt="" class=" lazyloaded" src="https://cdn.theconversation.com/avatars/1489526/width170/DSC00510-copy-480x600.jpg"/><span class="fn author-name">Shehab Uddin</span></a><p class="role">Programme Director, Higher Degree Research, Pathshala South Asian Media Institute</p>
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<p><span>The research underpinning this article was supported by a research grant from the International Visual Literacy Association. T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council.</span></p>
<p><span>The research underpinning this article was supported by a research grant from the International Visual Literacy Association. Shehab Uddin is affiliated with Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. .</span></p>
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<div class="grid-twelve large-grid-eleven"><div class="grid-ten large-grid-nine grid-last content-body content entry-content instapaper_body inline-promos"><p>Smartphones are a staple of modern life and are changing how we see the world and show it to others. Almost <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/321477/smartphone-user-penetration-in-australia/">90% of Aussies own one</a>, and we spend an average of <a href="https://www.reviews.org/au/mobile/2022-mobile-phone-usage-statistics/#:%7E:text=How%20much%20do%20you%20spend,day%20compared%20to%20last%20year">5.6 hours</a> using them each day. Smartphones are also responsible for more than <a href="https://photutorial.com/photos-statistics/">90% of all the photographs</a> made this year.</p>
<p>But compare the camera roll of a 60-year-old with that of a 13-year-old, as we recently did, and you’ll find some surprising differences. In <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1051144X.2023.2281163?src=">research published in the Journal of Visual Literacy</a>, we looked at how different generations use smartphones for photography as well as broader trends that reveal how these devices change the way we see the world.</p>
<p>Here are five patterns we observed.</p>
<h2>1. We make images more casually and with a wider subject matter</h2>
<p>Before the first smartphone camera was released in 2007, cameras were used more selectively and for a narrower range of purposes. You might only see them at events like weddings and graduations, or at tourist hotspots on holidays.</p>
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<p>Now, they’re ubiquitous in everyday life. We use smartphones to document our meals, our daily gym progress, and our classwork as well as the more “special” moments in our lives.</p>
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<span class="caption">In the old days cameras only came out for special occasions, but we now tend to use our smartphones to document a wider range of subject matter, including our most recent meal, something we see and want to add to our shopping wish list, or an item at the shops that we want to confirm with a family member.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">T.J. Thomson</span></span><br />
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<p>Many middle-aged people use smartphones most for work-related purposes. One of our participants put it this way:</p>
<blockquote><p>I often take photos of info I want to save, or of clients’ work when I want to then email it to myself to put on the computer. I feel like I’ve gotten a little slack on socially taking photos of friends … but in the day-to-day, I feel like I use it very practically now for basically work, grabbing a photo to upload it online somewhere.</p>
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<h2>2. We aren’t as selfie-obsessed as some would think</h2>
<p>Our participants only used their phone’s front “selfie” camera 14% of the time. They acknowledged the stigma around selfies and didn’t want to be perceived as narcissistic.</p>
<h2>3. We’re seeing more vertical compositions</h2>
<p>In years past, whether you had a bulky DSLR camera or a lightweight disposable, the “default” grip was to hold it with two hands in a horizontal way. This leads to photos in landscape orientation.</p>
<p>But the vertical design of smartphones and accompanying apps, such as Instagram and Snapchat, are resulting in more photos in portrait orientation. Participants said holding their smartphone cameras this way was more convenient and faster.</p>
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<span class="caption">The vertical design of smartphones and associated popular social media apps, such as Snapchat, Instagram, and X, influences how people use their smartphone cameras.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Instagram / X / Snapchat</span></span><br />
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<h2>4. We like to keep our distance</h2>
<p>Participants made more images of people from farther away compared to getting close. Intimate “head and face” framing was only present in fewer than 10% of the images.</p>
<p>In one participant’s words:</p>
<blockquote><p>I feel like my friends and I get frustrated with parents, when they’re zooming in a photo or they walk in really close. My mom would always get one like right in my face, like <em>this is too close!</em> I don’t want to see this. The zoom in, oh, it’s frustrating!</p>
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<h2>5. We get inspired by what we see online</h2>
<p>Teenagers in particular mentioned social media, especially Instagram, as influencing their visual sensibilities. Older adults were more likely to attribute their sense of aesthetics to physical media, such as photography books, magazines and posters.</p>
<p>This aesthetic inspiration impacts what we take photos of, and also how we do it. For example, young people mentioned a centred compositional approach most often. In contrast, older generations invoked the “rule of thirds” approach more often.</p>
<p>One participant contrasted generational differences like this:</p>
<blockquote><p>There seems to be a real lack of interest [by younger people] in say, composition, or the use of light or that sort of aesthetic side of getting an image. When my partner and I were kids […] our access to different aesthetics and images was actually very limited. You had the four channels on TV, you had magazines, you had the occasional film, you had record covers, and that was it, you know. Whereas, kids these days, they’re saturated with images but the aesthetic aspect doesn’t seem to be that important to them.</p>
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<h2>Why the way we make images matters</h2>
<p>While technology is changing the way people see the world and make photographs, it’s important to reflect on why we do what we do, and with what effects.</p>
<p>For example, the camera angle we use might either give or take away symbolic power from the subject. Photographing an athlete or politician from below makes them look more strong and heroic, while photographing a refugee from above can make them look less powerful.</p>
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<span class="caption">The vertical camera angle can sometimes be used pragmatically but sometimes connotes symbolic power differences. The low angle of the athlete at left provides more symbolic power than the high angle of the three figures at right.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Vladislav Todorov via Unsplash (left) / Aleksandr Kadykov via Unsplash (right)</span></span><br />
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<p>Sometimes the camera angles we use are harmless or driven by practicality – think photographing a receipt to get reimbursed later – but other times, the angles we use matter and can reinforce existing inequalities.</p>
<p>As the number of images made each year increases and <a href="https://theconversation.com/ageism-sexism-classism-and-more-7-examples-of-bias-in-ai-generated-images-208748">new ways to make images</a> emerge, being thoughtful about how we use our cameras or other image-making technology becomes more important.</p>
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VISUALIZING KNOWLEDGE: HOW SLIDESHOWS ENHANCE CLASSROOM LEARNING
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2023-10-03T15:40:50.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p>In today’s fast-paced world of education, traditional teaching methods are being supplemented and enriched by technological visualization innovations. One such innovation is the use of <a href="https://invideo.io/make/slideshow-maker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slideshows</a>, which have proven to be invaluable tools in enhancing classroom learning. Here, we will explore the role of slideshows in education and how they facilitate the visualization of knowledge.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.3av04ibtf346"><strong>The Evolution of Teaching Aids</strong></h3>
<p>The traditional classroom setup, characterized by chalkboards and textbooks, has given way to more dynamic and visually stimulating methods of <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.northeasternchronicle.in/news/futuristic-education-system/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1696328070649760%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw2gfVaUTrvK8ZQniBcv1iBM&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1696328070658442&usg=AOvVaw1QV6MDr9JJx9MScWqYdK24">education</a>. The digital age has ushered in a new era of interactive and visually engaging learning experiences, with slideshows at the forefront.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.5in75yq6693g"><strong>The Power of Visual Learning</strong></h3>
<p>Visual learning capitalizes on the idea that people absorb information more effectively when it’s presented in a visual format. Slideshows are perfectly suited to tap into this power. Slideshows leverage the power of images, graphics, and multimedia elements to make complex concepts more accessible.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.8o4vfq67g4b9"><strong>The Benefits of Using Slideshows in Education</strong></h3>
<p>Let’s delve into the myriad advantages of incorporating slideshows into the classroom setting:</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.ie3w3zfe5x40">1. Enhanced Understanding</h3>
<p>Visual aids in slideshows help students grasp abstract concepts, making it easier to understand and remember information.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.peiv0xn3ks09">2. Improved Engagement</h3>
<p>Interactive slideshows with videos, animations, and clickable content keep students engaged and active in the learning process.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.e0c1eygjx4b4">3. Organization of Information</h3>
<p>Slideshows provide a structured format for presenting information, making it easier for both teachers and students to follow the flow of a lesson.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.9onyrk233jx">4. Accessibility and Flexibility</h3>
<p>Digital slideshows can be easily shared online, allowing students to access course materials from anywhere, at any time.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.gv90scg5vqqv"><strong>Designing Effective Educational Slideshows</strong></h3>
<p>In order to optimize the potential of slideshows, educators must ensure that their presentations are aligned with their educational goals. In today’s digital age, educators can also utilize <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://invideo.io/make/slideshow-maker/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1696328070651498%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw0z3o6m5vCgqNIDbWHod-bA&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1696328070659600&usg=AOvVaw0swDq3xTCVgLSij3lWQVIN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI slideshow maker</a> tools to produce visually appealing slideshows. These tools are easily accessible through online platforms.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.wwqea1vwtky">1. Content Relevance</h3>
<p>Ensure that the content of the slideshow directly supports the learning goals of the lesson, eliminating unnecessary distractions.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.uap1y9f2242a">2. Visual Design</h3>
<p>Consider the design elements, such as color schemes, fonts, and images, to make the presentation visually appealing and conducive to learning.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.blmseugl3dao">3. Interactivity</h3>
<p>Incorporate interactive elements like quizzes and discussions strategically to encourage active participation and reinforce learning.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.hhm0lwelgfkl">4. Inclusivity</h2>
<p>Ensure that the slideshow is accessible to all students, including those with disabilities, by following accessibility guidelines.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.5ff0xd4sxjl"><strong>Slideshows in the Digital Age</strong></h3>
<p>As technology continues to advance, the role of slideshows in education evolves as well.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.f67v99gsu6hp">1. Mobile Learning</h3>
<p>With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, students can access slideshows on the go, enabling continuous learning.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.oc5oytcnqcp0">2. Personalized Learning</h3>
<p>AI-driven algorithms can customize slideshows to match individual learning paces and styles, making education more adaptive.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.ea5hetz8prfx">3. Global Collaboration</h3>
<p>Digital slideshows facilitate collaboration among students and educators from around the world, fostering a global perspective.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h.nkx12rbo30tw"><strong>Conclusion</strong></h3>
<p>Slideshows have emerged as powerful tools for enhancing classroom learning. Their ability to visualize knowledge, engage students, and facilitate comprehension makes them an indispensable part of modern education. As technology continues to advance, the role of slideshows in education is only expected to grow, providing educators with ever-expanding possibilities for enriching the learning experience.</p>
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Five technology based skills that will make students future-ready
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2023-09-15T16:30:35.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<div class=" pb-5 pt-1"><div class="sm:col-span-2"><div class="mt-1 text-base leading-6 prose break-words max-w-full prose-neutral prose-a:text-blue-600 hover:prose-a:text-blue-500 text-ETArticleDesc ml-1"><p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">We live in times of change, new innovations, and constantly evolving technologies. Today, new-age tech such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud computing, blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have become a part of our daily lexicon, with their applications defining our daily lives. The proliferation of these technologies has revolutionised almost every industry. To thrive in this rapidly evolving landscape, students need to equip themselves with several critical skills. By embracing a growth mindset and a willingness to learn, students can unleash their full potential and be more resilient in the face of change. </span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Let us take a closer look at some of these skills and why they are essential for success in the 21st century. </span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Critical thinking and problem-solving </span></strong>
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<span lang="en" xml:lang="en">A study by the World Economic Forum found that critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving were among the top 10 skills that would be most in demand in the workforce by 2025, and their importance will continue to grow in the coming decades. The importance of cultivating critical thinking and problem-solving skills in school cannot be overstated, as they are highly valued in the job market and necessary for success in any field. By cultivating critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, students can become adaptable, resilient, and innovative thinkers, capable of tackling any problem that comes their way</span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Digital literacy </span></strong>
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<span lang="en" xml:lang="en">With the ever-growing presence of technology in our daily lives, digital literacy is no longer just a nice-to-have, but a must-have. According to another WEF report titled 'The Future of Jobs', over 97 million new roles may emerge that are more adapted to the new division of labour between humans, machines, and algorithms. The report suggests that workers with strong digital skills will be in high demand in this rapidly changing job market. By developing digital literacy skills, students can better prepare themselves for the digital workplace, as well as become informed and engaged digital citizens. A key component of being future-ready, digital literacy empowers individuals to engage with and succeed in our increasingly digital world. </span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Creativity and innovation </span></strong>
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<span lang="en" xml:lang="en">By nurturing creativity and innovation in school, students can learn to think outside the box, develop new ideas, and approach challenges in exciting new ways. This skillset is particularly valuable in today's job market, where employers are increasingly seeking minds that can bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the table. Interactive and visual learning, as well as co-creation, can help develop creativity and innovation, enabling students to think creatively, express themselves, and generate innovative ideas that can help solve problems and create value. </span><br />
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<span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Communication skills are increasingly important in today's globalised world, where individuals must navigate diverse cultures and world views. By mastering communication in school, students can prepare themselves for the complex and ever-changing world of work. </span></p>
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<span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The ability to adapt to new situations, learn new skills, and pivot when necessary are critical to success in any field. By developing adaptability and flexibility, students can learn to embrace change, take on new challenges, and remain resilient in the face of adversity. These skills are particularly valuable in today's unpredictable job market, where professionals must be able to navigate shifting economic and technological landscapes. </span><br />
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<span lang="en" xml:lang="en">In an ever-evolving world, it is essential to provide students with a learning environment that encourages self-directed learning and cultivates skills that prepare them for the future. By developing the five skills mentioned above - critical thinking, digital literacy, creativity, communication and adaptability - Indian students can not only excel in their present academic pursuits but also be better equipped to face the challenges of tomorrow. At BYJU'S, we strive to empower students with the tools and resources they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world, so they can confidently navigate their way towards a brighter future. </span><br />
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<em><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">(The author is co-founder, BYJU’S) </span></em></p>
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AI Fuzzy Logic in Education: Customizing Learning Experiences
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2023-08-14T16:19:31.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p>The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought a seismic shift in various sectors, and education is no exception. One particular aspect of AI, known as fuzzy logic, is proving to be a game-changer in customizing learning experiences. Fuzzy logic, a computing approach based on ‘degrees of truth’ rather than the usual ‘true or false’ (1 or 0) boolean logic, is now being employed to make education more personalized and effective.</p>
<p>In the realm of education, the application of AI fuzzy logic is increasingly being recognized for its potential to create a more tailored learning environment. Unlike traditional learning methods, which often adopt a one-size-fits-all approach, fuzzy logic enables the creation of systems that adapt to the individual needs of each student. It takes into account the nuances of human decision-making, there offering a more human-like approach to learning.</p>
<p>The role of AI fuzzy logic in education is multifaceted. It helps in assessing the abilities and learning styles of individual students, there enabling the development of personalized learning paths. For instance, if a student excels in visual learning but struggles with auditory learning, the system can adjust the teaching methods accordingly. This not only enhances the learning experience but also makes it more engaging and effective.</p>
<p>Moreover, fuzzy logic is instrumental in providing adaptive learning environments. These environments adjust the difficulty level of tasks based on the learner’s performance. If a student is breezing through a particular topic, the system will present more challenging tasks. Conversely, if a student is struggling, the system will offer simpler tasks or additional resources to aid understanding. This adaptive nature of learning, facilitated fuzzy logic, ensures that students are neither bored with tasks that are too easy nor overwhelmed tasks that are too hard.</p>
<p>In addition to customizing learning experiences, AI fuzzy logic also plays a crucial role in predictive analysis in education. It can predict student performance based on past behavior and learning patterns. This allows educators to intervene early if a student is likely to perform poorly in a future assessment. Early intervention can make a significant difference in a student’s academic journey, preventing potential failures and promoting success.</p>
<p>Furthermore, AI fuzzy logic can assist in automating administrative tasks in the education sector. Tasks such as scheduling, grading, and providing feedback can be streamlined, there freeing up educators to focus more on teaching and less on paperwork. This not only increases efficiency but also improves the overall quality of education.</p>
<p>However, while the benefits of AI fuzzy logic in education are numerous, it’s important to address the potential challenges. Issues such as data privacy, the digital divide, and the need for human oversight must be carefully considered. Ensuring that AI is used ethically and responsibly in education is paramount.</p>
<p>In conclusion, AI fuzzy logic holds immense potential in revolutionizing the education sector. By customizing learning experiences, it offers a more personalized, engaging, and effective approach to education. As we continue to explore and understand the capabilities of this technology, it’s clear that the future of education lies in the successful integration of AI. With careful consideration of its challenges, AI fuzzy logic can indeed pave the way for a new era in education.</p>
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Transform Your Classroom with 10 Creative Whiteboard Activities
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2023-07-22T17:14:00.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p><a href="https://www.shifflerequip.com/education/furniture/white-boards/" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener"><span>Whiteboards are powerful tools</span></a> <span>that can transform traditional classroom lessons into interactive and engaging experiences for students. In this blog post, we will explore ten innovative ways teachers can make the most out of whiteboards, fostering creativity, collaboration, and active learning among students.</span></p>
<p><span>Are you ready to enhance your student engagement? Check out our list of whiteboard activities that can transform your classroom and make learning fun and interactive.</span></p>
<h2><b>1. Group Brainstorming on Whiteboards</b></h2>
<p><span>Group brainstorming is an excellent way to encourage collaboration and creative thinking in the classroom. Divide your students into small groups and present them with a problem or topic related to the lesson. Have each group write down their ideas, solutions, or thoughts on the whiteboard. Encourage active discussions and the sharing of ideas among group members.</span></p>
<h2><b>2. Interactive Quizzes and Games</b></h2>
<p><span>Spice up your lessons with interactive quizzes and games on the whiteboard. Use educational apps or software to create fun and engaging quizzes related to the subject. You can also turn the quiz into a friendly competition among students, inspiring them to participate and learn actively.</span></p>
<h2><b>3. Collaborative Storytelling</b></h2>
<p><span>Encourage your students to unleash their creativity through collaborative storytelling on the whiteboard. Start a story, and let each student contribute a sentence or two on the board. Watch as the story unfolds and takes unexpected twists and turns, sparking excitement and imagination.</span></p>
<h2><b>4. Drawing Exercises and Visual Learning</b></h2>
<p><span>Visual learning can be a powerful tool for comprehension. Use the whiteboard to draw diagrams, mind maps, or illustrations that complement your lessons. You can also ask students to draw their understanding of a concept, promoting deeper learning and creativity.</span></p>
<h2><b>5. Whiteboard Role-Play Simulations</b></h2>
<p><span>Bring history, literature, or real-world scenarios to life with whiteboard role-play simulations. Assign roles to students and let them act out scenes or situations while using the whiteboard as a backdrop. This activity fosters empathy, critical thinking, and enhances understanding of complex topics.</span></p>
<h2><b>6. Concept Mapping and Mind-Mapping</b></h2>
<p><span>Help students organize their thoughts and make connections between ideas using concept mapping or mind-mapping techniques on the whiteboard. Start with a central concept and add branches with related ideas, creating a visual representation of knowledge.</span></p>
<h2><b>7. Teaching and Learning among Peers</b></h2>
<p><span>Encourage students to take on the role of teachers by presenting a topic or concept on the whiteboard to their peers. This peer teaching activity not only boosts confidence but also reinforces their understanding of the subject matter.</span></p>
<h2><b>8. Whiteboard Art and Doodling Activities</b></h2>
<p><span>Embrace creativity in the classroom by incorporating whiteboard art and doodling activities. Set aside time for free-expression on the whiteboard, allowing students to doodle, draw, or write creatively. This can be a great stress-reliever and a way to foster self-expression.</span></p>
<h2><b>9. Interactive Problem-Solving Sessions</b></h2>
<p><span>Use the whiteboard to facilitate interactive problem-solving sessions. Present real-world challenges or academic problems and encourage students to work together to find solutions. This activity promotes critical thinking, teamwork, and communication skills.</span></p>
<h2><b>10. Reflective Journaling on Whiteboards</b></h2>
<p><span>Promote self-reflection by having students write their thoughts or reflections on the whiteboard at the end of a lesson. This activity allows students to express their understanding, questions, or emotions related to the topic and encourages metacognition.</span></p>
<p><span>The bottom line is incorporating whiteboard activities into your lessons can transform the way students engage with the material and with each other. From collaborative storytelling to interactive problem-solving, these creative ideas foster an environment of active learning, making your classroom an exciting and dynamic space for both students and teachers alike.</span></p>
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How visual intelligence can build ‘cultural capital’
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2023-06-20T16:42:13.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<div class="content-wide--single-pages__post-excerpt text--livic-bold">Anyone can look at art – but it turns out the perception of art is a skill so valuable, it's being used to sharpen minds in a range of different industries.</div>
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<div class="cntr"><div class="row content-wide--single-pages__main-content"><div class="col col--lg-8"><div class="content-wide--single-pages__inner-content"><div class="the-content"><p>Art galleries play an important role in the cultural landscape. But did you know they can be tools to break down discrimination in society – and even help to solve crimes?</p>
<p>The idea of artists teaching highly-trained professionals skills to help them understand and empathise with others seems counterintuitive.</p>
<p>But careful looking, thinking, perceiving and expressing are powerful.</p>
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<div id="medium_rectangle_ahau_1"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/21851541392/medium_rectangle_ahau_0__container__">As artists, we do this regularly in critiques, which can happen as part of formal art education studies, informally among peers, or through innovative self-organising groups such as The Artistry Huddle.</div>
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<p>As a legally trained policy adviser and artist, it occurred to me that visual literacy training can help other professionals examine evidence, and each others’ perceptions in new ways.</p>
<h2>Looking and perceiving</h2>
<p>Lawyers, detectives, criminologists, scientists and policy-makers look for and examine evidence.</p>
<p>Sometimes the obvious is overlooked, or patterns may not be recognised. We each bring our own life experiences, biases and perceptions to the act of looking.</p>
<p>There is a big difference between looking and perceiving.</p>
<p>Looking is the physical act itself – our eyes glance, notice or observe something in front of us. Perceiving includes and activates our senses of sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing. We also bring our past knowledge and experience to the act – this helps to contextualise what we see within our own frame of reference.</p>
<p>All of this requires far greater cognitive processing and takes us beyond just looking at a thing. Being perceptive enables us to assign meaning based on context, content and our past knowledge and experience.</p>
<h2>Challenging the status quo</h2>
<p>Dada artist Marcel Duchamp’s work <em>Fountain</em> is an iconic example of how traditional ideas of viewing and perceiving an everyday object can be challenged.</p>
<p>Duchamp installed a white porcelain urinal, upside down on a plinth in a gallery, and signed it ‘R. Mutt, 1917’. Duchamp offered this work to the Society of Independent Artists’ salon in New York. He was testing their claim that they would accept any work of art.</p>
<p>It was subsequently rejected on the grounds of its incredibility as an art piece. Duchamp, a member of the Board, resigned in protest.</p>
<p><em>Fountain</em> asks us to consider what art can be. Duchamp created the conditions for Conceptual art and established the idea of the ‘readymade’ within the art gallery context. He was being contentious on purpose, and putting art back in the service of the mind.</p>
<p>(Even more contentious is the recent claim that Duchamp stole the credit for this groundbreaking artwork from the female artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.)</p>
<h2>Developing skills</h2>
<p>The skills of perception are not a mystery from on high for the lucky few.</p>
<p>They can be taught.</p>
<p>Visual literacy is the ability to read, interpret and create visual information. As artists and designers, this is our bread and butter.</p>
<p class="has-ah-lightgrey-background-color has-background"><strong>Read:</strong> <a href="https://www.artshub.com.au/news/career-advice/visual-literacy-have-you-noticed-your-superpower-2633781/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visual literacy: have you noticed your superpower?</a></p>
<p>Visual intelligence goes deeper and requires more cognitive functioning. A visually intelligent person can understand complex visual tasks, recognise patterns, predict outcomes and synthesise information.</p>
<p>These are the skills used by curators, graphic designers and graphic recorders who need to be visually intelligent if they are to be effective.</p>
<h2 id="h-four-a-s-of-visual-intelligence">Four ‘A’s of visual intelligence</h2>
<p>Amy Herman is a US-based lawyer turned art historian. An expert in visual intelligence, she describes four ‘A’s that support visual intelligence. Herman says it is the ability to:</p>
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<li>Analyse</li>
<li>Articulate, and</li>
<li>Adapt</li>
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<p>Herman offers a service to develop visual intelligence to professionals who rely on their powers of perception to crack crimes and other hard problems.</p>
<p>Essentially, she runs critique sessions set in art galleries. Non-artists are not used to this process and it helps them to apply their visual intelligence skills within the context of a painting. These skills are transferable and they can take them back to their professional work environments.</p>
<p>Working in small groups, each person shares what they see. By default, and unconsciously, this includes their own preferences and biases. People learn to articulate what is in front of them and what it could mean. By collaborating in a group and sharing, a variety of perspectives are surfaced and communication and understanding are improved.</p>
<p>Participants visit art galleries with an arts professional who introduces them to a painting. They are instructed to really look at it for some time as individuals. Each person describes what they have seen and what it could mean. They take turns and then discuss the work as a group. Different aspects and interpretations are voiced.</p>
<p>Herman then describes the work according to the current art historical and theoretical context (also an evolving feast). These workshops build visual literacy skills that can ultimately help to solve crimes, notice fine details and look at the world in a more nuanced and detailed way.</p>
<p>In a world increasingly bombarded with visual information, visual intelligence is a source of cultural capital.</p>
<p>Developing visual literacy increases empathy and understanding of the ‘other’. Empathy is crucial for breaking down stereotypes, fear and discrimination.</p>
<p>More good reasons to value artists.</p>
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Unlock Your Brain’s Full Potential: Effective Memory-Boosting Hacks Revealed
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2023-06-15T15:15:55.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<h1 class="entry-title">Unlock Your Brain’s Full Potential: Effective Memory-Boosting Hacks Revealed</h1>
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<h1 class="entry-title">Unlock Your Brain’s Full Potential: Effective Memory-Boosting Hacks Revealed</h1>
<div class="entry-meta"><span class="posted-on">June 14, 2023</span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://wealthofgeeks.com/author/hazra-khatoon/" title="View all posts by Hazra Khatoon" rel="author"><span class="author-name">Hazra Khatoon</span></a></span></span></div>
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<p><source type="image/webp"><span>Are you feeling the pressure of final exams looming over you? Well, don't worry, because there are some simple tricks you can use to boost your memory while studying. </span></source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp"><span>To help calm your anxiety, we talked to Mads Soegaard, founder of Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) who shared a game-changing tips to help hack your memory. Let’s learn something new that could make all the difference in your studying routine!</span></source></p>
<h2><source type="image/webp">Using Coloured Pens To Make Notes</source></h2>
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</source></source><p><source type="image/webp"><span>Mads Soegaard, founder of</span> <a href="https://www.interaction-design.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)</span></a><span>, says, “writing notes in color is an effective method to boost memory performance.” </span><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">By writing notes by hand using colored pens, highlighters, and sticky notes, students are more likely to remember the key points when they head into their exams. “Writing notes by hand stimulates retention as it forces the brain to process information more detailedly, and it makes students more selective about what they are writing down,” Soegaard added.</span></source></p>
<div id="AdThrive_Content_1_desktop" class="adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-1 adthrive-ad-cls"><source type="image/webp"></source><div id="google_ads_iframe_/18190176,22561055859/AdThrive_Content_1/5c1eab251f60df0da6b269d0_0__container__"><source type="image/webp"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743993/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Psychological studies</a> have proven that writing in color can help students improve their memory by up to 80% since 90% of the information transmitted to the brain is visual. Moreover, the brain processes images <a href="https://www.t-sciences.com/news/humans-process-visual-data-better" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60,000 times faster</a> than text because the brain sees words as individual images that we must first recognize before understanding. “Using colored pens when writing keynotes allows students to see words as visual information rather than a block of text, which means they are more likely to understand what they are reading and can take in the news much faster than they could otherwise, Soegaard suggested.</source></div>
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</source><p><source type="image/webp"><span>Moreover, color also helps to form associations between notes, as when you recall a fact linked to one shade, your brain will naturally start thinking of the other points that share the same shade. </span></source></p>
<div id="AdThrive_Content_3_desktop" class="adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-3 adthrive-ad-cls"><source type="image/webp"></source><div id="google_ads_iframe_/18190176,22561055859/AdThrive_Content_3/5c1eab251f60df0da6b269d0_0__container__"><source type="image/webp">“Students can use this association to their advantage when it comes to actually sitting their exam. By bringing something the same color as their notes into the exam with them, such as a bracelet or pen, they will trigger their brain to remember facts in the same shade,” Soegaard explained. “This is due to context-dependent memory, where recall improves because there are similar context cues around the students as when they first took in the information.”</source></div>
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<p><source type="image/webp"><span>“However, some colors are more effective than others. It is vital to choose attention-grabbing shades associated with importance — hot shades like red, orange, and yellow,” Soegaard emphasized. </span></source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp"><span>Picking contrasting colors can also make information stand out more, so students may want to incorporate different sticky notes or highlighters for essential points. However, they should avoid overloading their messages as making facts more distinctive is the key.</span></source></p>
<div id="AdThrive_Content_4_desktop" class="adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-4 adthrive-ad-cls"><source type="image/webp"></source><div id="google_ads_iframe_/18190176,22561055859/AdThrive_Content_4/5c1eab251f60df0da6b269d0_0__container__"><source type="image/webp">According to <a href="https://www.interaction-design.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)</a> experts, utilizing visual learning is not limited to incorporating color only. You can also enhance your memory by:</source></div>
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<h2><source type="image/webp">Using Diagrams to Link Information</source></h2>
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</source></source><p><source type="image/webp"><span>Apart from using color, students can also boost their memory by using diagrams to link information. If they find themselves zoning out when faced with a wall of text, they may want to write notes as a diagram like a spidergram, flowchart, or table.</span></source></p>
<source type="image/webp"></source><div id="AdThrive_Content_5_desktop" class="adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-5 adthrive-ad-cls"><source type="image/webp"></source><div id="google_ads_iframe_/18190176,22561055859/AdThrive_Content_5/5c1eab251f60df0da6b269d0_0__container__"><source type="image/webp">This helps separate the information into a more digestible format and makes it easier to color-coordinate critical points without color overload.</source></div>
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<h2><source type="image/webp">Making Sure Your Room Is Well-Lit</source></h2>
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</source></source><p><source type="image/webp"><span>Soegaard also advises students to make sure their room is well-lit when studying. As studying in the evening after school or work is typical, they are likely to write notes without proper daylight. Just as color can be a strong context cue, so can light, so students should learn in as close to test conditions as they can. </span>Meaning in a well-lit room without any other visual distractions (like TV or their phone).</source></p>
<h2><source type="image/webp">Taking a Break Every Half Hour</source></h2>
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</source><p><source type="image/webp"><span>Finally, it is essential to take frequent breaks to recharge and reset, as it is easy to fall into the trap of spending hours on end sitting and writing notes. Students lose</span> <a href="https://www.columbiastate.edu/tutoring-learning-center/ap-study-skills/study-tips-visual-learner.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>85% of their input</span></a> <span>after reading for 25 minutes straight, so taking breaks every 25-30 minutes can help to boost productivity and retention of information.</span></source></p>
<source type="image/webp"></source><div id="AdThrive_Content_7_desktop" class="adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-7 adthrive-ad-cls"><source type="image/webp"></source><div id="google_ads_iframe_/18190176,22561055859/AdThrive_Content_7/5c1eab251f60df0da6b269d0_0__container__"><source type="image/webp">During these breaks, it is vital to engage in activities that help to relax the mind and body, such as stretching, going for a walk, or simply taking a few deep breaths.</source></div>
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<h2><source type="image/webp">Final Take</source></h2>
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Secret Benefit of Doodling: More Than Just Scribbles
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2023-05-22T19:58:33.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p>This article delves into the fascinating benefits of doodling, painting a more comprehensive picture of this ubiquitous yet often misunderstood activity.</p>
<h3>Doodling and Memory Enhancement</h3>
<p>A landmark study by psychologist Jackie Andrade, published in the journal “Applied Cognitive Psychology,” revealed that doodlers could remember 29% more information than non-doodlers when asked to recall details from a monotonous mock telephone message. This study suggests that doodling aids cognitive performance by keeping the mind engaged and preventing daydreaming, which can distract from the task at hand.</p>
<h3>Fostering Creativity</h3>
<p>Doodling isn’t merely a tool for memory enhancement. It also fosters creativity. By allowing the mind to wander freely, doodling encourages creative problem-solving and innovative thinking. It can stimulate new ideas and concepts, catalyzing creative breakthroughs. Furthermore, the non-linear nature of doodling can assist in thinking outside the box and seeing patterns or connections that might not be immediately apparent.</p>
<h3>Stress Relief and Emotional Well-being</h3>
<p>The benefits of doodling extend into the realm of emotional well-being. Engaging in this simple form of self-expression can help alleviate stress, much like other forms of art therapy. Doodling offers a non-verbal outlet for emotions, allowing for their expression and processing. This can promote emotional well-being and serve as a valuable tool in managing mental health.</p>
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<p>Contrary to the belief that doodling may indicate a lack of attention, it can actually boost focus. By providing a simple, repetitive activity, doodling can help anchor attention, making it easier to stay present during lengthy or complex tasks. This can be particularly beneficial in academic or professional settings, aiding concentration during long meetings or lectures.</p>
<h3>Visual Learning and Communication</h3>
<p>Doodling can also aid in visual learning and communication. By translating concepts into visual symbols, doodlers can better understand and remember complex information. This can also enhance communication skills, enabling individuals to express their ideas visually and engage others more effectively.</p>
<h3>Embracing the Art of Doodling</h3>
<p>Far from being a mindless distraction, doodling is a powerful tool with a host of cognitive and emotional benefits. From enhancing memory and creativity to promoting focus and emotional well-being, these humble scribbles carry hidden potential. As we continue to explore the impact of doodling on the brain, we may find even more reasons to keep our pens moving freely on the page. It seems that the secret language of doodles is finally being heard, calling us to rethink, reimagine, and, most importantly, to doodle on.</p>
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Expert reveals simple visual trick to improve your memory
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2023-05-08T16:12:14.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>Instead of typing up reams of notes or countless lists and hoping you’ll take in what you’re writing, it’s much more effective to write notes by hand using different coloured pens.</p>
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<div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>“However, often this is actually a waste of time as you’re less likely to remember what you’ve typed in your notes app or word doc.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>“If you struggle with recall, it’s much more effective to write down key points by hand using coloured pens, as colour works to boost our memory.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>“Writing notes by hand stimulates retention, as you’re forcing your brain to process the information in a more detailed way than typing.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>According to a psychological study, writing in colour can help us improve memory performance by 80%, because almost all of the information transmitted to the brain is visual.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>The trick to taking in information quickly is to transform blocks of text into something visually stimulating using colour, as it’ll make it much easier to properly process each word.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>“Picking contrasting colours can also help make information stand out more, so you may want to incorporate different sticky notes or highlighters for important points.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>“However, make sure not to overload your notes, as making facts more distinctive is key.”</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>This method works perfectly for forgetful couples who find it tricky to remember their anniversary, families who have endless birthdays to remember, or busy working professionals who often struggle to recall their shopping list at the end of a busy day.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>Use diagrams to link information. If you find yourself zoning out when faced with a wall of text, you may want to write notes as a diagram like a spidergram, flowchart or table.</p>
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<div><div><div class="MarkUpstyled__MarkUpWrapper-sc-hxclep-0 etimnY"><p>This helps separate the information into a more digestible format and makes it easier to colour-co-ordinate critical points without colour overload.</p>
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Advancing Digital Literacy for a Digitally Inclusive Future
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2023-04-04T15:38:29.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<div class="article-full"><div class="row article-content"><p>There is no question that today’s schools are filled with digitally savvy children who have grown up with technology and the internet of things. But a discrepancy exists when considering students’ digital fluency compared with their digital literacy, and both sets of skills are required in their future.</p>
<p>Recently, EdSurge podcast host <a href="https://www.edsurge.com/writers/carl-hooker" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Carl Hooker</a> discussed the importance of advancing digital literacy with field experts Rebecca Young, Natasha Adebiyi and Jon Gregori. The webinar, sponsored by <a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Dell</a>, offers advice and reflection on advancing students’ digital literacy skills.</p>
<h2>Defining digital literacy</h2>
<p>Digital literacy is the ability to <a href="https://www.iste.org/DigLitCourse" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">navigate, consume, create and communicate</a>online information appropriately in the digital world. Such skills can include <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09523987.2020.1833680" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">media literacy, visual literacy and technology fluency</a>, depending on the class age and context. Young, a learning specialist and instructional technology coach at Plainfield School District in Illinois, describes digital literacy as “having all the skills that are necessary not only to be safe but productive and successful in the digital world we live in.” She continues by suggesting students need to learn how to read a digital room and engage effectively.</p>
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<blockquote class="pullquote">More than previous generations, students today must learn to think critically and collaborate responsibly as they consume and produce online media.</blockquote>
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<p>Gregori, an innovative learning specialist at Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia, notes that digital literacy is a “modern life skill” that goes beyond digital competencies to include strength in character and citizenship. More than previous generations, students today must learn to think critically and collaborate responsibly as they consume and produce online media.</p>
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<p>School districts recognize the need for teaching digital literacy to prepare students for skills they will need to enter the workforce of the future. Adebiyi, an instructional technology specialist at Dekalb County Schools in Georgia, implores schools to “think about the future. There are careers out there not even created yet that we need to prepare students for.” We have to think beyond today and think about our students’ future.</p>
<hr/><p><strong><em><a href="https://events.edsurge.com/webinars/advancing-digital-literacy-for-a-digitally-inclusive-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Watch the full “Advancing Digital Literacy for a Digitally Inclusive Future” webinar on-demand now.</a></em></strong></p>
<hr/><h2>Strategies for developing digital literacy in your classroom</h2>
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Rebecca Young<br/>Learning Specialist and Instructional Technology Coach, Plainfield School District 202, IL
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<p>While some districts have established an intentional focus on teaching students digital literacy skills starting in primary grades, others are just beginning the curricular journey. Regardless of where your school falls on this progression, the key is to keep pushing for advancement one strategy at a time.</p>
<p><strong>Embed technology tools in daily tasks:</strong> Like many other districts across the country, Young describes a “panic pedagogy” forced on her colleagues by the pandemic. Many districts scrambled to integrate technology for teachers and students to experience a new normal of online learning. But Young cautions teachers not to fall back to pre-pandemic habits. Instead, embrace the digital advances pushed by COVID and embed new practices into your day-to-day curriculum.</p>
<p><strong>Start small:</strong> Adebiyi’s advice for hesitant teachers is to “plug in one digital resource and start small.” Don’t feel pressured to implement multiple digital tools suddenly and simultaneously. Not only is this difficult for teachers to plan and establish, but students can become overwhelmed with learning a variety of new applications all at once. Young makes it her goal to “organically embed” new technologies, striving for authenticity over bedazzlement.</p>
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Natasha Adebiyi<br/>Instructional Technology Specialist, Dekalb County Schools, GA
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<p><strong>Collaborate with colleagues:</strong> Teachers often worry they don’t have time to add one more thing to their curriculum, but Adebiyi argues that digital literacy already connects many content areas. Teachers find success in her district by using collaborative planning, adding digital components to competencies already in the curriculum and eventually developing an interdisciplinary, authentic experience for students. Gregori agrees that teachers need the time to collaborate and own their digital literacy development, and students need that same space to build confidence in new skills. His district focuses on communication and multimodal literacy, which allows teachers to continue teaching standards of learning but with enhanced digital opportunities.</p>
<p><strong>Plug into resources:</strong> The panelists encourage teachers to reach for the digital literacy tools already established and classroom-ready. Here are a few favorites:</p>
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Jon Gregori<br/>Innovative Learning Specialist, Henrico County Public Schools, VA
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<li><a href="https://www.commonsense.org/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Common Sense</a> media resources</li>
<li><a href="https://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards-for-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">ISTE standards for students</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.getdigitalskills.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Digital Skills for a Global Society</a>: for students, educators and caregivers from Dell and ISTE</li>
<li><a href="https://www.iste.org/DigLitCourse" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Digital Literacy in the Classroom</a>: self-paced course for educators from Dell and ISTE</li>
<li><a href="https://www.iste.org/about/Team-ISTE/richard-culatta" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Richard Culatta</a>’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Good-Raising-Thrive-Online/dp/1647820162" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World</a>”</li>
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<p><strong>Create opportunities:</strong> Leverage digital literacy in the classroom to build impactful learning. Adebiyi recalls when her third grade students first realized the website they were building could influence the world around them. She introduced a problem-centered movement related to hungry families in the community. With a little guidance, her students took ownership of the mission and raised awareness and funds for those in need. Such opportunities create equity for students, says Gregori. Giving students the space and experience to develop their skills opens more doors for their future.</p>
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<blockquote class="pullquote">Giving students the space and experience to develop their skills opens more doors for their future.</blockquote>
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<p><strong>Partner with parents:</strong> Schools need to share with the community at large the importance of <a href="https://www.getdigitalskills.org/questionnaire" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">digital literacy</a>. Young says the best way to do that is to “meet families where they are.” Invite parents to collaborate with faculty on the appropriate use of technology in the classroom and at home. Give parents the tools and skills they need to model digital literacy for their children. And be deliberate about showcasing students’ digital artifacts—a great hook for getting parents in the classroom.</p>
<p><strong>Just get started:</strong> No matter where you are in the digital literacy journey, Adebiyi suggests the key is to focus on digital citizenship early. Elementary students need to learn how to engage with the digital world. As Young notes, students need to learn about their digital footprint before they create one. If they don’t learn in the classroom, they will try to figure it out on their own.</p>
<hr/><p><em>Sponsor’s note: We brought together educators to discuss digital literacy, but that was before we started to see Generative AI like ChatGPT show up in schools across the country. Obviously, this will have huge implications for any discussion about digital literacy in the future, and we plan on making sure we broaden the scope of this conversation.</em></p>
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6 REASONS WHY VISUALS ARE A BIG PART OF ELEARNING
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<div class="heateorSssClear">An <a href="https://www.theedadvocate.org/7-things-an-educator-needs-to-know-about-elearning/">eLearning</a> course’s goal is to have a strong influence on learners and to aid learning. Visuals are a crucial component of an eLearning course since they explain key concepts and keep learners engaged throughout the session. The article discusses visual learning and its benefits of visual learning.</div>
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<p><b>Understanding Visual Power: The Benefits of Visual Learning</b></p>
<p><b>Which of the following is more appealing to a student?</b></p>
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<p><span>The majority of people will learn better with the second alternative. It’s simply because pictures are more appealing to those inquisitive and intuitive young minds than plain text.</span></p>
<p><span>Several studies have been completed to date that demonstrates the effectiveness of visual aids in eLearning. And they have produced some intriguing outcomes. For example, learners immediately respond to visual information than to text-only materials. Visuals also significantly aid learning on several levels. As a result, visual learners account for around 65 percent of the population.</span></p>
<p><span>Visual aids have various advantages. Let’s go over them so you can better comprehend the impact of images in eLearning:</span></p>
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<p><span>Bulleted information is undeniably easier to digest. However, the same information in an image or a video is processed even faster. According to the Visual Teaching Alliance, 90 percent of information communicated to the brain is visual.</span></p>
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<li><span>Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than words.</span></li>
<li><span>Humans can comprehend a visual scene in less than one-tenth of a second.</span></li>
<li><span>The retina is connected to 40% of nerve fibers.</span></li>
<li><span>Our brain is capable of seeing visuals that last only 13 milliseconds.</span></li>
<li><span>Every hour, the human eye can register 36,000 visual messages.</span></li>
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<p><span>As a result, eLearning programs that include appropriate pictures outperform text-only programs.</span></p>
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<p><span>Images are the most basic and effective technique to ensure that information is stored in long-term memory. According to</span> <a href="https://www.theedadvocate.org/"><span>education</span></a> <span>consultant Dr Lynell Burmark, our short-term memory analyzes words and can only remember roughly seven bits of information. Images, on the other hand, are processed directly by our long-term memory, where they are forever inscribed.</span></p>
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<p><span>Visuals aid learners in understanding topics by activating their imagination and influencing their intellectual capabilities. Furthermore, visual language is believed to have the ability to expand ‘human bandwidth,’ which includes acquiring, interpreting, and analyzing additional information. The infographic below, for instance, depicts how we are pre-wired to instantly interpret relationships between items, ensuring instant comprehension with little effort.</span></p>
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<p><span>Many students have difficulty with some subjects because they find them boring and thus lack the motivation to put forward the necessary effort. In such cases, visuals are your greatest bet. Captivating visuals, engaging movies, intriguing infographics, and so on help learners avoid boredom and push them to perform better.</span></p>
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<p><span>Emotions and visual data are processed in the same area of the brain. In a simple sense, visual inputs and emotional responses are linked, and the two together produce what we call memories. As a result, vivid visuals and visual metaphors leave a lasting impression on learners.</span></p>
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<p><span>The benefits of visuals are only realized when they are utilized correctly. The quality and relevance of pictures are extremely important. Assume you have the most meaningful visuals, charts and videos, making your online instructional far superior to that of your competitors. However, if the graphics are low resolution or pixelated, they fail to achieve their goal and the</span> <a href="https://entelechy.app/"><span>student</span></a> <span>loses interest. Aside from poor quality, visual aids that are generic and fail to communicate the subject in a precise and clear manner will not appeal to learners.</span></p>
<p><span>The photos that will add value to your course material and genuinely assist learners must match the following criteria:</span></p>
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<li><span>Use real people, locations, or items to explain.</span></li>
<li><span>Assist learners in connecting familiar and novel materials.</span></li>
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<p><span>As a result, the idea is to think of images as</span> <a href="https://www.theedadvocate.org/7-things-an-educator-needs-to-know-about-elearning/"><span>eLearning</span></a> <span>course power enhancers. If they are irrelevant, they can generate distractions from the main issue and, in the worst-case situation, turn off your audience. However, when implemented correctly, it may add value to your online tutorials and attract more students to your</span> <a href="https://www.theedadvocate.org/online-learning-students-want-quality-convenience/"><span>online learning</span></a> <span>platform.</span></p>
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9 Best Board Games for Autistic Children
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2022-12-20T17:33:51.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p>One in 68 children worldwide has autism, one of the development disorders with the quickest growth rate.</p>
<p>Since there is no medical cure for autism, the ideal therapy entails assistance and appropriate education.</p>
<p>Children with autism can improve their condition and get stronger social and language abilities in a suitable setting with professional assistance. </p>
<p>Playing board games might comfort kids with an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autism spectrum disorder(ASD)</a>.</p>
<p>For kids with autism, <a href="https://thebingeful.com/best-board-games-for-camping/">board games</a> are a great option. Playing <a href="https://thebingeful.com/best-board-games-for-elderly/">board games</a> is appealing to autistic kids for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>These games’ predictable rules and repeated actions encourage autistic youngsters to play them repeatedly. The players are typically not the main emphasis; instead, the board is. </p>
<p>Without making eye contact, which they frequently avoid, children learn to wait for their turn and pay attention to other players’ movements.</p>
<p>As a result, a youngster with autism can interact with other players while maintaining some degree of comfort.</p>
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<p>Remember that you will have to give your best to win this game as autistic children are very adept at remembering visual details, and that board games allow them to use their visual strengths.</p>
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<p>Board games enable the visual learning that many autistic youngsters exhibit. An autistic spectrum disorder diagnosis for a kid can be debilitating for parents (ASD).</p>
<p>Some children suffer from repetitive behavior and communication, while others can be overly sensitive to touch, particular sounds, or odors. </p>
<p>The best board games for autistic children are listed below, and how they can help autistic children immensely. </p>
<h2 id="1-spellapuzzlenbsp">1. Spell-a-Puzzle</h2>
<p>One of the best board games for autistic children is Spell-a–Puzzle. There are about 20 little words in this game, like “dog,” “cat,” “tiger,” etc. </p>
<p>For instance, when you spell “tiger,” a picture of a tiger is also created. This puzzle links information’s verbal and visual components by combining words and graphics. </p>
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<p>When a task is completed effectively, a youngster with autism will feel extremely satisfied.</p>
<p>The assignment will be manageable because the terms are typically simple. The cost of this game varies from $35.00 on Amazon to $12.60 at Walmart.</p>
<p>After your child learns these words, you can always create your spell-a-puzzle game if they get bored. </p>
<h2 id="2-candylandnbsp">2. Candyland</h2>
<p>Every year, millions purchase this, making it one of the most well-liked board games. Players must choose a card from the deck in this very simple game. </p>
<p>Although the game may run into difficulties that force players to skip their turn or restart, no options are available.</p>
<p>With the help of this game, youngsters can learn how to control their disappointment and deal with it in public. </p>
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<li>By removing all decision-making from the game, players won’t have to worry about making a poor decision. </li>
<li>Players may encounter obstacles and challenges that force them to move their game piece backward or even to the beginning of the game. </li>
<li>It does an excellent job of educating about tragedies and disappointments. </li>
<li>Perfect game for two to four players, although a single person can play it alone if they only want to enjoy moving their piece according to the color cards they draw. </li>
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<h2 id="3-tickettoridenbsp">3. Ticket-to-Ride</h2>
<p>Next on our list of best board games for autistic children is Ticket-to-Ride. It is reportedly relatively simple to learn how to play Ticket to Ride, which requires “tough strategic and tactical judgments at every step.” </p>
<p>It is a board game with a railroad theme where players gather various card types to claim North American railroad routes (there are also versions with other countries). Players score more points the longer the paths are. </p>
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<p>At first, you may need to modify the game’s rules, but your child will play without any limitations over time. </p>
<h2 id="4-social-skillsnbsp">4. Social Skills</h2>
<p>The National Autism Resources website suggested this game. Compared to the other games on this list of the best board games for kids with autism, this one is unique.</p>
<p>This collection of six aesthetically appealing games focuses on appropriate social behavior and abilities. </p>
<p>Morals, manners, empathy, friendship, expressing emotions, and managing emotions are the six categories covered in the game.</p>
<p>After rolling the die in the game’s straightforward guidelines and questions, the player responds to the questions in that location and continues. </p>
<p>Since this game incorporates verbal communication, it is especially beneficial for kids who are further advanced on the autism spectrum.</p>
<p>It’s a terrific game to encourage verbal and social connection while teaching kids how to express their feelings through play. </p>
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Due to the game’s emphasis on verbal communication, it is not appropriate for autistic children who do not speak. This game costs roughly $31.00 at Walmart. <br />
<h2 id="5-battleshipnbsp">5. Battleship</h2>
<p>Next on our list of best board games for autistic children is Battleship. In Battleship’s strategy game, your goal is to sink your opponent’s ship fleet before they sink yours.</p>
<p>This game introduces players to grids and coordinates while teaching them to reason logically. A youngster with ASD will benefit from the planning and strategizing. </p>
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<li>Battleship is a fantastic strategy game that encourages players to concentrate on learning from their previous mistakes while striving to sink their opponent’s ships and using that information to create their next movements. </li>
<li>With grids and instructions, this game is incredibly practical and demonstrates math skills and reasoning without the players even recognizing it. </li>
<li>All players find the remembered strategy for this game to be incredibly fascinating. </li>
<li>Players will develop their methods as they play this game more regularly and learn how to make decisions more quickly based on the results of their previous actions. </li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.5em;">6. Sequence for Kids</span><br />
<p>This game is another one that the website Autism Teaching Tools have chosen for our list of the best board games for kids with autism. Players use cards to make runs of four tokens in a row in this visual matching game. </p>
<p>Add a unicorn card anywhere on the board to remove your opponent’s chip. Children with autism could find this first frustrating, but this game feature can be introduced gradually.</p>
<p>Children learn turn-taking and forward-thinking in addition to visual matching since they have to spot when their opponent is about to win and break up their sequence. </p>
<p>The fact that four can be arranged in a row either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally aids the child in pattern recognition and anticipation. The cost of this game on Amazon is $14.86. </p>
<h2 id="7-animal-on-animalnbsp">7. Animal on Animal</h2>
<p>This is also one of the best board games for autistic children. The dice are rolled in this game. Players must stack <a href="https://thebingeful.com/anime-like-blue-exorcist/">animals on top</a> of one another.</p>
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<p>After rolling the dice, players should alternately try to stack various wooden creatures on top of one another. </p>
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<li>This game puts a lot of effort into enhancing players’ skills. </li>
<li>Players can practice their social skills as they discuss the system and how they will assemble their next component. </li>
<li>It requires a lot of perseverance and preparation before the game to succeed. </li>
<li>Because it is simple to roll the dice again and begin building monsters without suffering many harsh repercussions, even significant hurdles can rapidly change</li>
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<p>This timeless game aims to move your marbles across the board from one corner to the other before your opponents do. Chinese Checkers can be played with 2, 4, or 6 players.</p>
<p>Chinese Checkers is a straightforward game that requires strategy and benefits children with ASD. Thanks to critical thought, they will learn new maneuvers every time they play. </p>
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<li>A superb game with many pieces for players to enjoy moving and gorgeously colored graphics. </li>
<li>This game requires players to make more decisions than other comparable games, which is fantastic for keeping them engaged and connected to the decisions they are making. </li>
<li>This simple game needs concentration on your movements and those of your opponent. </li>
<li>Players truly want to learn new moves each time they play so that they may add them to their library. </li>
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<h2 id="nbsp9-chicken-cha-cha-chanbsp">9. Chicken Cha Cha Cha</h2>
<p>Last on our list of best board games for autistic children is Chicken Cha Cha Cha. Chickens are learning to dance (cha cha cha) in this game, ranked number 5 on our list of the <a href="https://thebingeful.com/xbox-one-lego-games/">top board games</a> for kids with autism, by making circuits in the yard.</p>
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<p>Playing this game is a lot of fun, and it looks fantastic. It is a memory game as well as one that involves matching colors. </p>
<p>These best board games for autistic children will enable your special needs youngster to learn skills more quickly than any computer game. Why are you holding out? Bring out those old board games and give your kids hours of entertainment and education. </p>
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Visual learning helps ELL students build skills, boost comprehension
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2022-12-05T17:00:26.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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Seventh-grader Fernando Cabral-Linares uses a notebook of drawings and notations to help him understand the book he is reading<br />
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<p>Clay, a multilingual learner teacher in her 11<sup>th</sup> year of teaching at Mill Creek Middle School in the English Language Learner program, said making visuals helps ELL learners with recall and retention of new information. She said research has shown that drawing more than writing has proven to be more effective as a <a href="https://hsredesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Impact-of-drawing-on-memory.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">memory aid</a>.</p>
<p>To help her ELL students understand the difference between characters in what they read, Clay has them draw the characters and make notations in a dedicated notebook. Clay keeps a collection of them that are a cross between graphic novels and <a href="https://www.cliffsnotes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CliffsNotes</a> with doodles.</p>
<p>Eighth-grader Araceli Torres-Perez said drawing in notebooks helps her comprehend classwork and literature as she learns English. She moved to Comstock Park from Mexico about 15 months ago.</p>
<p>“I can draw the actions of the characters and then remember the drawing and know what part of the story it is,” Araceli said in Spanish as Clay translated for a visitor. </p>
<p>Clay said Araceli was a straight-A student in Mexico who was reading at the 12<sup>th</sup>-grade level, and is highly motivated to improve her English. In a recent session, Clay asked Araceli what she thought of the book <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/314498/who-was-frida-kahlo-by-sarah-fabiny-illustrated-by-jerry-hoare/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Who Was Frida Kahlo?”</a> that her class was reading. </p>
<p>“Look at this page right now. Do you see any of the prepositions we’ve been talking about?” Araceli pointed out the preposition “into.” To help her understand the word “throughout” Clay drew an arrow to illustrate going through it.</p>
<p>Araceli explained how the notebooks help: “Many times, I only understand some works or I confuse others, so I don’t understand what the story is telling.” She writes the meaning of English words that are difficult for her in Spanish, then makes drawings about the actions of the characters or the setting to better understand the story and the meanings of words. </p>
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Drawings serve as memory aids for ELL students<br />
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Amy Clay has spent the past few summers traveling in Ecuador (pictured), Cuba and Mexico<br />
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<p>The effectiveness of Clay’s methods may be seen in test scores. From fall 2021 to spring 2022, reading MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) scores in her newcomers class improved by an average of 11.6 points. Her reading class with ELL and non-ELL students considered high risk improved by an average of 6.7 points, as did the reading MAP scores for the general ELL population.</p>
<p>Clay said she has great memory and often makes visual archives in her head.</p>
<p>“Visuals can help me focus and make a memory picture in my head in a way that text cannot,” she said. </p>
<p>She noted the book “<a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312838/the-doodle-revolution-by-sunni-brown/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Doodle Revolution</a>” discusses the process of summarizing information via drawings. Doodles help anchor the thinking of the student making the drawing.</p>
<p>“They have to edit and focus on the most important parts,” Clay said. “It helps them keep track of all the information. The quality of the drawing is not as important as the process of the learner making the drawing.” </p>
<p>She said she has found that visual learning is especially important for students who do not speak English or Spanish.</p>
<p>“Finding and producing my own non-linguistic examples of the literature they were studying and concepts they needed for school was key.” She reads and learns large works of literature and other things at the same time as the students, and said her use of notebooks soared when she had students from Iraq and Africa.</p>
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Amy Clay works with eighth-grader Araceli Torres-Perez to help her understand the literature her class is reading<br />
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<p>Clay is one of four ELL teachers in the district . They oversee 199 students who represent 14 different languages. </p>
<p>Her work, education and travel experiences make her uniquely qualified to work with ELL students. She earned a social science degree from the University of Michigan and spent two years at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, where studies must be linked to a third-world perspective. She earned post-graduate teaching credentials at Mills College in Oakland, California with a focus on equity and ELL, and a master’s degree from Boston University, where her thesis focused on multicultural consideration in curriculum planning for the art classroom. She’s taken additional courses covering memory recall, reading and the brain, and visual culture.</p>
<p>Clay spent many summers living amid other cultures including in Yemen, London, rural Scotland and Italy. She worked in documentary production in the Midwest and California and taught university-level English as a foreign language in Ecuador. She also worked for five years as a resident adviser at a Japanese university in Boston. </p>
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Drawing a scene from literature helps ELL students learn English<br />
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Drawings and notations in one of Amy Clay’s notebooks aid ELL students with their comprehension of literature<br />
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<p>For the past three years she has spent summers volunteering and studying language, history and culture in Ecuador, Cuba and Mexico.</p>
<p>“I’d say the two most influential cross-cultural experiences in helping me work with the ELL students and families of Comstock Park are living with Japanese students for five years and living and teaching in Ecuador for a year,” Clay said. </p>
<p>“It helped me learn the confusion and misunderstandings that can occur when you feel like the outsider linguistically and culturally, and when people think of you as ‘the other.’ </p>
<p>“It is a constant challenge to be understood in a language that is not your native language. Living in another culture and language can be super humbling, and helps develop empathy and patience with those who take that risk.”</p>
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World Press Photo director emphasizes visual literacy for mainstream education
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2022-11-06T14:19:11.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<div class="news-holder-single-page_lead"><p>Visual literacy equips all to understand the contextual, cultural, and ethical components involved in the production and use of visual materials, says El Zein…</p>
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<div class="news-holder-single-page_lead"><p>Visual literacy equips all to understand the contextual, cultural, and ethical components involved in the production and use of visual materials, says El Zein Khoury.</p>
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<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">World Press Photo Foundation's Executive Director Joumana El Zein Khoury has explained the importance of visual literacy at a discussion held at DrikPath Bhaban on Saturday evening.</p>
<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">Joumana El Zein Khoury is visiting Bangladesh on the occasion of the global tour of World Press Photo Exhibition 2022 in Bangladesh hosted at Drik Gallery, Dhaka, said a press release.</p>
<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">“Visual literacy equips us to understand and analyze the contextual, cultural, ethical, aesthetic, intellectual, and technical components involved in the production and use of visual materials,” she said.</p>
<div class="a-d-holder-container"><p class="a-d-text">During the talk, Khoury also discussed how visuals used in mainstream education can change the entire dynamics of learning. </p>
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<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">The discussion session was moderated by Shahidul Alam, founder of Drik Picture Library.</p>
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<div class="a-d-holder-container"><p class="a-d-text">Meanwhile, a meeting was organized at Drik Gallery with the Editors' Council of local newspapers at 11am on Saturday. </p>
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<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, Nurul Kabir, editor of New Age, Sajjad Sharif, managing editor of Daily Prothom Alo, Dewan Hanif Mahmud, editor of Daily Bonik Barta among other newsroom editors and photojournalists were present in this event. </p>
<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">At the beginning of the discussion, Shahidul Alam said that Drik has been selected as a regional partner in Asia after many years of discussions with the World Press Photo Foundation at various stages with the aim of advancing photojournalism. </p>
<div class="a-d-holder-container"><p class="a-d-text">In continuation of this, the World Press Photo Foundation and Drik are planning to take various initiatives to create opportunities for the expansion of photography and skill development in the region, he added.</p>
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<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">The local photojournalists highlighted various challenges, obstacles, and discrimination in the field of photojournalism during the discussion. </p>
<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">Joumana El Zein Khoury stated: “I want to talk about photojournalists who work at the risk of their lives, who strives to present the current news to the world through a perfect picture that can be understood at a glance.”</p>
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<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">“In the current reality, the career and quality of life of photojournalists are becoming difficult every day. They are struggling not only in the security issue but also in the economic field. It is important to strengthen the media by making the photojournalist as important as a reporter in a newsroom,” she further added.</p>
<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">On behalf of the Editor's Council, Mahfuz Anam said: “Not all newspapers are in the same situation but this matter needs to be addressed. News editors must understand photojournalism and photographers must also consider the obligations of the newsroom.”</p>
<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">“It is important to keep this discussion going. I think now is the right time to change the way of thinking about this,” he noted.</p>
<p class="single-artical-content-container-600">To advance photojournalism, the president of the Editors' Council also mentioned that in the future, initiatives will be taken to discuss news editors and photographers at different levels.</p>
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Visual Literacy: A Critical Library
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2022-10-28T23:16:47.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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Five Essential Data Visualization Approaches to Know Right Now
tag:visualteaching.ning.com,2022-10-15:2629116:BlogPost:95805
2022-10-15T14:44:27.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<h1 class="entry-title">Five Essential Data Visualization Approaches to Know Right Now</h1>
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<h1 class="entry-title">Five Essential Data Visualization Approaches to Know Right Now</h1>
<span class="posted-on">Posted on</span> <a href="https://solutionsreview.com/business-intelligence/essential-data-visualization-approaches-to-know-right-now/" title="6:03 pm" class="post-time">October 14, 2022</a> <span class="by-author">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://solutionsreview.com/business-intelligence/author/csachs/" title="View all posts by Chris Sachs" rel="author">Chris Sachs</a></span> <span class="posted-in">in</span> <a href="https://solutionsreview.com/business-intelligence/category/best-practices/" rel="tag">Best Practices</a><br />
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<p><strong><em>This is part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, <a href="https://www.swim.inc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" class="external">Swim</a> co-founder and CTO Chris Sachs offers a look at the essential data visualization approaches to know.</em></strong></p>
<p>Watch and learn. That’s how most people like to do it. Whether it’s learning how to change a car tire, prepare a meal or analyze data, most people prefer to get their instructions and make decisions based on visual elements instead of text.</p>
<p>According to the Visual Teaching Alliance, approximately 65% of the population are visual learners. Over 80% of people tend to retain information delivered visually vs. 20% of what they read and 10% of what they hear. Visual learners prefer to use images, graphics, colors, and maps to communicate ideas and thoughts. Such visualized information is often more comprehensible than text- or audio-based explanations alone.</p>
<p>In a fast-paced digital culture of short attention spans and continuous data streams, massive volumes of data are being produced that make mission-critical decisions possible in milliseconds.</p>
<p>The human brain can process images and videos 60,000 times faster than text. But a basic video isn’t enough. We demand high-quality, vibrant, engaging content to capture and hold our attention.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most enterprise big data environments are still producing content equal to the era of silent black-and-white movies. Rather than streaming real-time data, they’re working with snapshots of information delivered sporadically in uninteresting formats. This approach is equivalent to driving a car with your eyes closed and opening them every couple of minutes to see what’s ahead of you.</p>
<p>In addition, those clunky data streams are gushing through a firehose, making it nearly impossible to analyze. Part of this challenge is the result of streaming data v. streaming applications.</p>
<p>Streaming data, the approach more commonly applied to data analytics, produces large chunks of information that may or may not have anything to do with how you do business. Data is streamed straight into databases, where traditional business applications pick up the baton in a decidedly non-streaming fashion.</p>
<p>On the other hand, streaming applications are designed to support your business and run directly on top of streaming data. These applications consist of stateful web services, streaming APIs, and real-time user interfaces designed to run with motion and colors. Streaming applications revolve around real-time business models that are continuously updated by incoming streaming data.</p>
<p>For example, with continuous intelligence through streaming applications, a telecommunication provider can have constant visibility of its network structure to know immediately when changes are needed to keep services running. With ongoing insights about changes in power grids or user demands, they have the situational awareness to address network performance in real-time.</p>
<p>For online commerce, a national retailer with a complex network of suppliers and high volumes of inventory can tell customers exactly where their products are and when they can pick them up.</p>
<p>As connected self-driving cars become more prevalent, they will encounter waves upon waves of raw data to analyze as they move down the road. The average U.S. town will generate more daily data from traffic intersections than Twitter generates globally.</p>
<p>A connected vehicle doesn’t need all the data from every single intersection in a city – it only needs data pertinent to its intended route. The information is only relevant and valuable to the connected vehicle if delivered in the sub-second timeframe required for decision-making.</p>
<p>This connection between data and decision-making can only happen if operators have a clear and engaging picture of what they’re looking at. The right visualization techniques can help organizations contend with the inundation of information – processing, analyzing, and visualizing all data in concert.</p>
<p>Here are five visualization techniques to make your data pop on screen.</p>
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<p>Ask nearly any data analyst, and they’ll tell you they hate looking at raw data on boring dashboards. When displaying data, try to incorporate images as much as possible and highlight them with colors representing the status of whatever they’re monitoring. We like to tap into emotional colors like red or green that convey moods so they can tell at a glance if something is good or bad.</p>
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<p>We also like to use dark backgrounds to contrast with colors, making the screens easier to read and catching the user’s attention through their peripheral vision.</p>
<p><strong>Use Motion to Establish Trust</strong></p>
<p>Users need to trust that their information is accurate. Traditional big data normally arrives as static numbers that can be analyzed until the next updated data arrives. Again think of the snapshot and of someone driving while opening their eyes every five minutes to see what’s in front of them. Streaming applications provide real-time data that can be displayed in motion. As long as the user can see these data points ripple with time, they can have confidence that they’re current and reflect their operations’ real-time status.</p>
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<p><strong>Color Accentuated Focus Areas</strong></p>
<p>Because of the massive amounts of data users are dealing with, it’s important to focus their attention where it’s needed the most. This is where you can use specific colors to highlight critical areas of concern. Motion again is used in this case to show where those areas of concern can fluctuate in real-time.</p>
<p><strong>Use Animation to Communicate Updates</strong></p>
<p>Just as color can help display information as it updates, animation can provide a means of grabbing the user’s attention. Too many times, users are forced to retrieve information. That period between retrievals might miss critical updates and alerts. Animation can be used to make the difference between retrieving information and overseeing it as it refreshes in front of your eyes.</p>
<p><strong>Let Your Data Speak for Itself</strong></p>
<p>Knowing that most humans are visual learners, it’s critical to visualize data in a way that makes it easy to understand how it moves over time. The best way to do this is to humanize your visuals by giving them visual life. You’re actually giving the visual of that data an element of life and a voice. So not only does it help to visualize the data, but it lets the data speak.</p>
<p>I like to think data is called a science because it gives us ideas. But there’s also the issue of creativity. Yes, data is all about math and formulas. But it’s also a creative process that helps us think about things differently. Visualization provides us with both. We have the information that tells us what analytics to write and the ability to apply some level of intuition to the problem at hand.</p>
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Encouraging positive pupil behaviour through visual learning
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2022-07-28T15:04:05.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p>However, some children may require additional support to build the vocabulary needed to fully access the curriculum. Identifying these pupils early is key to helping them reach their full potential, but spotting issues is not always straightforward.</p>
<h2>Identifying vocabulary gaps</h2>
<p>Pupils with limited vocabulary can find it more difficult to follow spoken instructions as the words being said quickly disappear. It can be more challenging for pupils to participate in the exciting learning opportunities available to them or connect with their peers when they do not have the language to fully engage.</p>
<p>What this means is that a child who might come across as withdrawn, easily distracted or disruptive could simply have gaps in their vocabulary that are preventing them from engaging and achieving their full potential.</p>
<p>Providing children with visual prompts in the form of symbols is a simple way to help them engage and progress in school.</p>
<h2>The impact of visual learning</h2>
<p>Visual aids can be a powerful tool to help children with limited vocabulary to develop and retain the language they need to navigate the school day and achieve – and the benefits of using visual prompts extend to all children.</p>
<p><a href="https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/rrq.326">One study</a>, published by the Vanderbilt University in the USA, has started to show that visualisation in vocabulary teaching helps children to better remember and recall the meanings of words when used in conjunction with written text. The research suggests that the use of key symbolised words can significantly improve comprehension, too.</p>
<p>Below are three effective strategies for using symbolic images to support children’s academic and emotional development. These techniques can help to embed a culture of positive behaviour across the school.</p>
<h2>Visualise new vocabulary</h2>
<p>Exciting lessons often come with new vocabulary. While many pupils will be able to familiarise themselves quickly with new words, for children with restricted vocabulary unknown words can cause confusion, anxiety and disengagement.</p>
<p>Using symbols in vocabulary teaching can improve children’s oral recollection. According to <a href="https://pipstjohn.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/child-language-teaching-and-therapy-2014-st-john-255-71.pdf">a study</a> published by the Language For Life Partnership UK and the University of Sheffield, children taught in this way made significantly more progress in vocabulary than when other methodologies were used.</p>
<p>Symbolic imagery can be used to pre-teach Tier 3 vocabulary – or the topic-based terminology used in subjects such as geography, science and maths – for example. Words such as ‘tectonic’, ‘atmospheric’ or ‘terrestrial’ could be displayed alongside symbols and be briefly taught prior to a geography lesson.</p>
<p>This advance teaching will give children a firm grasp of the more technical language they will encounter in many areas of the curriculum and free up lesson time that will be better spent deepening their knowledge of the topics being covered.</p>
<p>Pre-teaching Tier 3 words reduces the demand on pupils’ working memory and helps them to process the lesson more easily. This encourages them to stay focused in lessons and actively use higher level vocabulary in both their speaking and writing.</p>
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<h2>Visual timetables and routines</h2>
<p>For some pupils, returning to in-person teaching has been overwhelming after largely learning remotely due to Covid. Boarders who stayed with guardians during the pandemic may be unfamiliar with the routines of school life too and this can have an impact on behaviour inside and outside the classroom.</p>
<p>Symbols are an effective way to provide children with a visual reminder of lesson timetables and routines across the school to help them keep on top of the school day.</p>
<p>Teachers can use a ‘now and next’ board of images to indicate which lessons are being taught throughout the day and what equipment is needed to help reduce anxiety and enable pupils to settle quickly into learning.</p>
<p>A visual timetable might include an image of a calculator alongside the written word ‘maths’, for example. A lunch plate could represent mealtime, while a picture of a football could help pupils to quickly see when to expect an outdoor learning break.</p>
<p>Symbols such as calendars and clock faces can help children to manage homework and deadlines, encouraging them to complete tasks independently and on time.</p>
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<h2>Encourage expression of emotions</h2>
<p>A child who is unable to verbalise when they are feeling angry or confused is less likely to be able to fully access the content of a lesson and make academic progress. In situations such as this, a visual emotions chart can make it easier for teachers to recognise and respond to the needs of their pupils.</p>
<p>Symbols can be a powerful way to support emotional wellbeing by encouraging pupils with limited vocabulary to express how they are feeling.</p>
<p>If a child is feeling uneasy or anxious about moving from being a day pupil to a boarder, for example, they might find pointing to the appropriate symbol on an emotion board much less daunting than trying to verbally explain how they feel. The teacher can then take steps to help.</p>
<p>Used in this way, symbols can support wellbeing, help children develop resilience and embed a culture of positive behaviour across the school.</p>
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<h2>A holistic education</h2>
<p>Education should be an exciting journey that helps children to thrive academically and emotionally. With the right support, every child can take full advantage of the exciting adventures and engaging learning opportunities available to them.</p>
<p>For further insights into supporting pupils’ vocabulary development with symbols, head to <a href="https://www.widgit.com/about-symbols/booklets/vocabulary-recovery-guide.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Walking the Talk: A Vocabulary Recovery Plan for Primary Schools.</a></p>
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‘If we could learn to not be fooled’: Educational psychology professor wins grant to fight misinformation
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2022-07-23T15:11:54.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p><em>By <a href="mailto:laurel.white@wisc.edu">Laurel White</a></em></p>
<p><span>Teaching people how to spot and outsmart a particularly tricky form of misinformation online is at the heart of new UW-Madison research recently funded by the National Science Foundation. </span></p>
<p><span>The research, led by educational psychology professor Martina Rau, will focus on visual misinformation — specifically, misinformation presented online in graphs. Rau has studied visual learning for more than a decade. She says visual misinformation in graphs can be particularly powerful because it can make false information seem more believable — and it reaches viewers very quickly. </span></p>
<p><span>“When you’re browsing the web, you encounter so many visual representations that aren’t good,” Rau said. “Every time we scroll through media, whether it’s social media or news media, we’re attracted to visuals. We’re more drawn to visual representations than text, and we don’t question those visuals as much.”</span></p>
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<p><span>Rau said misleading graphs include three-dimensional pie charts that angle a certain section of the chart toward the viewer, in order to make that section seem bigger. A line graph with an axis that doesn’t start at zero is another culprit. Those graphs can cause viewers to accept falsehoods and make ill-informed decisions about things ranging from politics to medical care and product purchasing. </span></p>
<p><span>Rau’s project, which was funded for three years with roughly $850,000 from the National Science Foundation, will include the development of a tool that people can install on their web browsers. The tool will provide a short, two-minute training on how to spot misleading graphs — and point out those graphs as they show up during browsing. The goal is to “inoculate” people against misinformation in graphs, and then provide “boosters” as needed, Rau said. </span></p>
<p><span>Rau was drawn to the project after keying into the hot-button issue of widespread misinformation during a recent sabbatical. She sees the study as a way to use her deep knowledge of visual learning to help people in the world of education — and beyond. </span></p>
<p><span>“I wanted to do something that had a big societal impact,” she said. “If we could learn to not be fooled any more, that would be really what I would hope for.”</span></p>
<p><span>Xiaojin Zhu, professor in the Department of Computer Sciences, is co-investigator on the study.</span></p>
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6 Reasons Why Art Education is Crucial for Your Kid’s Growth
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2022-06-08T15:00:36.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<hr/><p><span>‘A</span>rt is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment,’ is what Maryann F Kohl, an educationalist and publisher once said.</p>
<p>Creative outlets, which include theater, dance, music and arts form a rather integral part of a child’s growing up years. With more and more schools now understanding the importance of an art curriculum, school going children are being exposed to various kinds of art.</p>
<div class="vspl__ad--banner adp-wrapper adp-post-ad-item"><div class="adp-container"><div class="adp-banner"><p>At the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), based in Delhi/NCR, the constant endeavour has been to help educators connect students with art. The special educators at the museum create <a href="https://www.thebetterindia.com/283077/woman-quits-law-labour-child-birth-photography-unconventional-jobs-mommy-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">engaging content</a> for art workshops that focus on ground-breaking learning through art.</p>
<p>Speaking to <strong>The Better India</strong>, Somya Sahni, Manager, Education and Outreach Program at KNMA says, “Students from schools, colleges and NGOs come in large groups to attend these stimulating workshops throughout the year. These workshops not only limit themselves to students but in the past few years have also attracted many young adults, senior citizens and individuals with special needs.”</p>
<p>Emphasising the need to expose children to an art education she says, “Art isn’t just about enhancing a few factors but helps in promoting an overall growth in an individual. We believe it is very important for children to be exposed to such creativity and find ways for them to retain it.”</p>
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<p>“There are various studies that have shown that children who spend an hour or more on art each day tend to perform better in academics as well. It promotes wholesome growth in the child,” she says. Indulging in art also helps children develop an out-of-the-box thinking streak.</p>
<p><strong>2. Improves critical thinking:</strong></p>
<div class="vspl__ad--banner adp-wrapper adp-post-ad-item"><div class="adp-container"><div class="adp-banner"><ins class="adsbygoogle"><ins id="aswift_3_expand" title="Advertisement"><ins id="aswift_3_anchor"></ins></ins></ins><p>Critical thinking enables children to think independently and reflect on the problem before them. An important skill set for the 21st century, exposure to art helps children fine tune this. The desire to sift through information and make informed decisions comes from critical thinking.</p>
<p>According to an article in Arts Academy in the Woods, art education, in particular, encourages students to observe the world from many different angles. Most art is very complex and consists of layers of meanings. It takes time to find, examine, and consider these many layers.</p>
<p>It’s this very process of observation and study that teaches <a href="https://www.thebetterindia.com/265463/prastuti-designs-west-bengal-petit-point-gara-embroidery-women-empowerment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">students of the arts</a> to more intensely observe and analyse the world. And it gives them the skills that build the foundation of critical thinking.</p>
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<p>According to a report in the New York Daily News, art helps develop decision-making. The act of exploring and trying new ideas develops a child’s mind as a critical thinker and problem solver as they consider and make choices. These experiences in creating art carry over into other areas.</p>
<p><strong>4. Creative approach to issues:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>5. Visual learning:</strong></p>
<p>It is important for children to learn and understand beyond text and numbers. Art provides that platform for children to see the world through a different lens. Dr Kerry Freedman, Head of Art and Design Education at Northern Illinois University says, “Children need to know more about the world than just what they can learn through text and numbers. Art education teaches students how to interpret, criticise, and use visual information, and how to make choices based on it.”</p>
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<p>Somya says, “Colour plays an important part in our life. Each colour reflects a certain emotion. One is able to understand what is going through in the mind of a child by asking them to randomly paint at times. It is a reflection of one’s thoughts. Colour is often used as therapy and can have a very calming effect on children.”</p>
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Graphic Organizers Help Multilingual Learners
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2022-05-01T15:18:45.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<div id="news_content_body"><img id="featured_image" src="https://cdn5-ss9.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/Image/News/2021-22/253-042622-MarumscoHills-Virtual-Teaching-Tool-DN.png" alt="Three students writing in notebooks and looking at worksheets. "/><p><span>Learning to read and write a new language can be a challenge at any age, but with the use of graphic organizers, Darianella Baret an ESOL teacher at Marumsco Hills Elementary School, is watching her students thrive. Graphic organizers are used to visually represent</span> <span>ideas, concepts, and relationships between various components, making</span> <span>content more comprehensible for students.</span></p>
<p><span>Baret recently used graphic organizers in a lesson about how to identify the main idea and supporting details of a book. After reading a book together, she instructed her second grade students to use a graphic organizer while reviewing the book. Students wrote down the main idea and other details, and were able to write a summary based on the information in their graphic organizer.</span></p>
<p><span> “Multilingual learners need academic content in comprehensible ways. Graphic organizers transform academic tasks into smaller, feasible, and visual ways which in return allows them to better understand while learning important vocabulary. It is also a powerful tool for oral language proficiency because it makes engaging in academic discussions manageable,” explained Baret.</span></p>
<p><span>Students can use the graphic organizer in various ways and across contents areas. John, a second grader, said, “I feel like it helps me write faster and learn more words. I use it when I write in my journal.”</span></p>
<p><span>The resource is especially useful as students dive deeper into more complex writing and reading skills. Adela, a second grader, shared that it’s helping her prepare for the more challenging work that she will be assigned in third grade.</span></p>
<p><span>“A graphic organizer has boxes that help me stay organized. I can make mistakes and fix them, then my sentences start to turn into paragraphs,” she explained.</span></p>
<p><span>The teaching tool serves as a scaffold for students learning how to prewrite, question, connect, analyze, and organize their work. Because it’s a scaffold, the goal is to gradually remove it after the student is comfortable.</span></p>
<p><span>Baret said, “I must differentiate to meet the needs of my multilingual students. It is my duty to bridge the gap between content and where students are in their learning, so I’m constantly assessing when students are ready for the next step. My hope is that by scaffolding using graphic organizers my students learn academic content, become stronger and more independent writers, but also more confident in their oral language abilities.”</span></p>
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10 Benefits of Art Education
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2022-04-01T14:10:15.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p><span>Arts is a vehicle of learning as it helps with human development in every term of understanding and learning different concepts. It accesses to the different parts of the human brain making it easier for people to make decisions and solve problems. Art education has different meanings to different people, it imparts knowledge in numerous fields such as music, theatre, visual arts and many more. Art education plays an essential role in the education system as it encourages engagement and creativity and helps one think outside the box. Studying arts not only helps in the academic performance but it also improves learning in subjects like sciences, math or literature through visual formats instead of numbers or words. </span></p>
<p><span>In this article we will shed light on to the reasons as to why art education is considered important. </span></p>
<h2><span>Growth Mindset</span></h2>
<p><span>Through arts education, people develop skills such as resilience, determination and a growth mindset to help them in their academic life as well as when entering the real world. In recent studies, it was shown that the art education exposes students to such activities that it enhances their physical and mental development. Exposure to arts education helps them in motor skills and problem-solving abilities. Arts makes one more observant and it is also known to reduce stress. </span></p>
<h2><span>Risk- Taking</span></h2>
<p><span>Art education allows kids to take more risks in their projects because there is a flexibility in the outcomes, kids don’t tend to feel as much pressure as when they must create something. Students know that the desired project would be accepted even if it didn’t look exactly as compared to other projects so this helps build a sense of confidence among kids which may also be fruitful in other areas as well. </span></p>
<h2><span>Self-Expression</span></h2>
<p><span>Mostly the subjects in the educational system are based on facts but in the art education, it is entirely different. Art education rather offers a more open approach and celebrates all kinds of differences in the finished products. It helps the students in understanding that there is always another way to complete the project. Art education also helps students express their emotions through pieces of artwork. </span></p>
<h2><span>Concentration</span></h2>
<p><span>Art education is always an enjoyable project for the students as they are better able to concentrate on the given tasks, sticking with it from beginning to the very end. It helps them get creative with no pressure on them. Finishing the projects, often give these kids a sense of accomplishment, which can be empowering as these students may be struggling and finding it hard in other subject areas. </span></p>
<h2><span>Decision Making Skills</span></h2>
<p><span>Art education helps to strengthen critical thinking and decision-making ability. Learning how to make decisions will certainly carry over into students’ education as well as other aspects of their life in the future as this is considered a valuable skill in the adulthood. When children are encouraged to make their own decision, they start understanding the idea that they can innovate and interpret the world around them. Decision making will help the child lose that fear of failure. While art education helps kids in understanding the world around them, it also helps that the child becomes an independent innovator and a creative thinker.</span></p>
<h2><span>Visual Learning</span></h2>
<p><span>The art of visual learning develops unique and powerful ways of understanding, knowing and representing, understandings about the world. Experiences of creating and interacting with works of art are vital for every student. It teaches students to think and observe the environments around them, think creatively, explore ideas and apply their imaginations. Students need to know more about the world than what they can only learn through words or numbers. It teaches students how to criticize, use visual information, interpret and how to make decisions based on it. </span></p>
<h2><span>Collaboration</span></h2>
<p><span>Many of the arts such as dance, theatre, music requires kids to work together as a team. These kids learn to share responsibility and compromise to achieve a common goal. At an early age, kids learn that their contribution to the group, is integral to its success. Even if they don’t have the lead role, it matters. At that early age, they learn to work together in a team and open about their ideas, it also boosts up their confidence level. </span></p>
<h2><span>Increased Student Engagement</span></h2>
<p><span>Art education focuses mainly on positive achievements and fosters collaborations. Art education provides numerous opportunities for the students to demonstrate their skills through authentic performances. It enables students to grow in confidence and to learn to think in a positive manner about themselves as well as learning. It helps give students a new medium to connect to new knowledge to personal experiences and by helping them to express what they have learned to other people. </span></p>
<h2><span>Learning Positive Attitude and Habits</span></h2>
<p><span>Art education helps foster a positive culture. Creating a painting, singing, learning to dance or learning some musical instrument teaches kids that being persistent, practicing improving or being patient are important factors for the growth and improvement of the children. Students gain confidence as they try accomplishing things that they may not find easy. Through the idea of artistic education, it helps develop character among young people. Students learn habits and behaviors that are necessary for success in any field of life. </span></p>
<h2><span>Art Enhances Creativity</span></h2>
<p><span>Art education helps student perform better on assessments, these students show greater flexibility and arability in thinking than the students who are not introduced to the art education. Art education helps students to think in an innovative way, bring out all levels of creativity and create original pieces, writing plays, producing theatre dramas and developing their own rhythms. Art education provides an amazing environment for fostering creativity, which is a very important skill to have in a rapidly changing world. </span></p>
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4 Benefits and Advantages of Visual Learning for All Students
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2022-03-04T14:59:52.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p>Many educators have argued that visual learning is better for students of all ages and abilities.</p>
<p>However, what does this mean in practice?</p>
<h3>1. Retention of Information</h3>
<p>The traditional learning model relies on hearing lectures and reading books to absorb information. Because of loads of content and their complexities, the information goes to the brain’s short-term memory. The constant switching between listening and reading makes it even more difficult to retain…</p>
<p>Many educators have argued that visual learning is better for students of all ages and abilities.</p>
<p>However, what does this mean in practice?</p>
<h3>1. Retention of Information</h3>
<p>The traditional learning model relies on hearing lectures and reading books to absorb information. Because of loads of content and their complexities, the information goes to the brain’s short-term memory. The constant switching between listening and reading makes it even more difficult to retain information as it overloads the short-term memory.</p>
<p>Visual learning proves to be more effective than traditional methods because it engages students’ senses and helps them retain information. Incorporating images, videos, drawings, and infographics engage the brain in a way words alone cannot. The learners become active in processing the info and experiencing it rather than just hearing it.</p>
<p>By incorporating visual learning into your classroom, you can help your students retain what they learn. For example, Know Yourself presents <a href="https://knowyourself.com/">human anatomy for kids</a> in a fun way for students across different ages and learning styles. Visual learning emphasizes active learning, which is better at information retention than passive listening.</p>
<h3>2. Simplified Learning Process</h3>
<p>We cannot wholly disregard the traditional lecture-and-notes approach in learning. However, the system does not explain complex concepts such as chemical processes.</p>
<p>Visual learning helps to complement the conventional mode of learning and allows students to consume detailed information in a more digestible form. Learners easily grasp concepts by igniting their imaginations and cognitive abilities.</p>
<p>Presentation of concepts with relevant images helps to accelerate the learning than reading a whole book. Visual learning removes the pain and intimidation that students face when presented with many pages of text.</p>
<p>For example, a visual learning technique known as mind mapping can be used to construct elaborate visual representations of the main ideas and supporting evidence in a given piece of content.</p>
<p>The human brain processes image 60000 times <a href="https://www.t-sciences.com/news/humans-process-visual-data-better">compared to text</a>. Approximately 90% of the information that goes into the brain and is easily retained is visual. Visual techniques hasten to learn and encourage critical thinking, comprehension, and retention.</p>
<h3>3. Evokes Emotions</h3>
<p>Keeping students excited about a topic is essential in cognitive functions such as attention, memory retention, and reducing anxiety. Visual learning techniques evoke a wide range of emotions than auditory learning. This ability to keep students focused allows them to grasp concepts faster and in a more fun environment.</p>
<p>Visual learning helps students develop a mind map. These are visible ways of representing the content you teach using words, images, and shapes. The general idea is to group related information to be easy to comprehend.</p>
<p>Rather than reciting information from a learning material, students use mind maps to reflect their understanding of the content. Mind maps help create exciting sensations about topics and the general knowledge of concepts.</p>
<p>Visualizations make learning impactful, causing better reactions to learning than words. For example, an image of an accident due to alcoholism will produce a more lasting effect than text.</p>
<p>Visual learning is also the quickest way to create similar emotional responses for your students. They can pick and understand the weight of various information and topics, accelerating the learning process</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><strong>4. Encourages Self-Learning</strong></span></p>
<p>Self-study is a great way to enhance the comprehension of topics and improve student grades. However, learners require friendly materials to boost their interest and understanding levels. Visual learning provides an effective solution to these challenges.</p>
<p>Visualizations allow students to think critically, which is helpful in further exploring the topic. The images create deep enthusiasm and problem-solving skills due to the elaborate descriptions.</p>
<p>Students can easily follow through with the materials to recreate what they see without supervision. The visuals also make it easy for them to correct mistakes along the way, helping them become experts in those areas of study.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Being a teacher can be overwhelming due to the large volumes of concepts you need to deliver and the different learning speeds of students. However, incorporating visual learning can simplify your work and attain better results, as we have learned above.</p>
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Visual literacy minor inspires creativity and artistic exploration
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2022-02-23T15:07:20.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p dir="ltr"><span>There are the right-brain people — artistic and creative. Then there are the left-brain people — logical and rational. Professor Matt McCormick disproved this belief with the introduction of the visual literacy minor at Gonzaga four years ago, when he was hired as a professor at the university. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Currently working as an assistant professor of Integrated Media & Art, as well as the creator of the visual literacy minor, McCormick wanted students to have the ability to gain a deeper understanding of the image-populated world around them while not requiring that the students interested come from an art-specific major or background. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>In a world that is becoming increasingly bombarded with images and media, whether it be through what we see on our phones, to what we see walking through our own neighborhood, McCormick explained the visual literacy minor was created to provide useful insight on the images and media that can dictate our lives and the ways it can be created. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>According to McCormick, the minor is geared towards the production and creation of visual media — film, photography, design and image and video production. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"It has an analytic side as well, in that part of the process is not only learning how to use the tools to create images, but to have a deeper understanding of what these images mean, and what their impact is on society and individuals,” McCormick said.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>With a passion for filmmaking (it is his “number one jam for sure”), McCormick has been deeply involved in the film and art world for years now, both producing his own media as well as teaching his students how to put their own creations out into the world. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>However, McCormick did not always know that he would end up in the world of film, which is one thing he kept in mind while creating the visual literacy minor. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>With a wide range of students coming from many majors, including communications, broadcasting, social relations and sociology, the visual literacy minor is for both those who know where they want to go in the future and for those who are still searching. The range of majors held by students taking the minor, as well as the broad range of skills the minor teaches, are some of its greatest advantages, which is something McCormick appreciates as he reflects on his 20-year-old self. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>As a student, although he did not know exactly what he wanted to pursue in the professional world, he did know that if he gained the right skills, he could do anything.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>“I could move to Hollywood and work in big blockbuster movies,” McCormick said. “I could do advertising, do nonprofit documentary work... There are just so many different ways that these tools can be utilized. And I think that is one of the really cool things is seeing students come in and work in different directions.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Ursula Hood, a senior from Portland, Oregon, who is majoring in broadcasting and economics and currently in her final year of the visual literacy minor, has found joy in the more creative and freeing aspects of the curriculum. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>In the broadcasting major, she explained, the focus tends to be more on news and reporting, rather than on aspects such as filming and creating artistic media. When Hood saw flyers for the new minor during the spring semester of her junior year, she applied and has not looked back since.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>“I feel like [the visual literacy minor] definitely helped me creatively with video production, something that broadcasting cannot help me with,” Hood said. “It has opened my eyes to a whole new world of possibilities and things that I want to do rather than just broadcasting.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Currently taking classes such as documentary filmmaking and documentary history and analysis, Hood has been able to explore her creative side while using the new skills she is developing to apply to her majors. The visual literacy minor has pushed Hood not only as a student, but in how she views the world around her.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>“It's helped me look at the world in a new way,” Hood said. “I've definitely discovered my storytelling skills with this minor and I love that; just rounding that out, seeing both sides of the film world, with broadcasting and the more creative visual literacy side, helped me personally a lot.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>While art has always been a part of Hood’s life, she believes her foray into the creative world is just beginning. According to Hood, the visual literacy minor has set her up with the skills she will need to pursue a career in the filmmaking and production industry after she graduates, which she hopes to do.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>“The minor has inspired me to look for stories and things around me that I would not have been looking for before I started the minor,” said Hood.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>As for McCormick, who will continue to teach classes and act as the head of the minor, he advises those looking to enroll in the minor to stay curious and take the time to understand the world around them. He believes that at the end of the day, it is the student who must advocate for their own learning experience.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>“I think for all young people that one overriding piece of advice is to stay curious and explore,” McCormick said. “Not only follow your passions, but make sure you're doing enough exploration to</span> <span>find</span> <span>your passions."</span></p>
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Top tips to improve the teaching of mathematics in universities
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2022-02-10T14:23:45.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p><span>Teaching mathematics can be challenging since almost all new concepts depend highly on the sound understanding of prerequisite topics, and more importantly on the approaches that students used to learn those prerequisite subjects.</span></p>
<p><span>A clear understanding of various teaching approaches is required when it comes to teaching mathematics. It is a discipline that contains a wide range of topics, and there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to communicating the theories behind these topics to students effectively. So, here we will look at what contributes to effective teaching of mathematics, offering tips that are relevant to teaching in many other subjects.</span></p>
<h2><span><strong>Preparation is key</strong></span></h2>
<p><span>Students come to university from various educational backgrounds and research shows that both the mathematics knowledge as well as the mathematical mindset may differ for many students. A well thought-out teaching layout makes a major difference in the level of engagement from students during the lecture or any teaching session. A few points to consider when planning a lecture:</span></p>
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<li><span>Know what the students know at that point, and do not assume that they know other information useful to the theory that’s about to be taught.</span></li>
<li><span>What information is going to be given in an expository way, and what parts will be exploratory?</span></li>
<li><span>How can previous topics seen be deepened in a cohesive way with the new topics?</span></li>
<li><span>When are you going to have a break? A lot can happen in a two- to five-minute break. Students can reflect back on that “mad proof”, they can (re)solve a problem on their own, or if it’s an online lecture, they can use those few minutes to simply look away from their screen.</span></li>
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<h2><span><strong>Link maths to real-life problems</strong></span></h2>
<p><span>A common thought that many maths students have is along the lines of “when is this theorem ever used in real life situations?”. Whenever possible, use a relevant topical example where the theory taught was applied. This brings benefits such as:</span></p>
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<li><span>Giving students the opportunity to connect what they are learning to real-life situations, allowing them to engage more and understand how they will transfer skills into their postgraduate studies or job.</span></li>
<li><span>Encouraging students to apply their skills creatively in other modules and topics too. This strengthens their skills in reasoning, logic, and communication.</span></li>
<li><span>Giving students an opportunity to speak to and interact with their peers.</span></li>
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<h2><span><strong>Cooperative learning approaches</strong></span></h2>
<p><span>This involves students learning collaboratively in small groups. Student-centred learning acts as a catalyst to students identifying what learning techniques work best for them, as well as what their strengths and weaknesses are in a particular topic. It builds trust, confidence and excitement where metacognition and teamworking takes place. This is particularly useful when there’s more than one method to solve a problem or prove a mathematical statement. What might a cooperative learning session involve?</span></p>
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<li><span><strong>Working together on a problem:</strong> (i) first presenting the new material or problem, (ii) asking students to troubleshoot individually while making notes on what definitions or theorems are relevant to the problem and what they need to do to solve it; (iii) then discuss their solution with other students, in pairs or small groups, and collectively.</span></li>
<li><span><strong>Brainstorming is a great way to open up a new unseen theorem or method.</strong> This allows students to revisit their existing knowledge in order to grasp the content of a new field. This can be done out loud, using a physical shared board, or using online responseware such as Mentimeter. Set a time limit. Encourage students to express any ideas they have even if they think it’s irrelevant or wrong. “Quantity breeds quality” so keep the responses coming through.</span></li>
<li><span><strong>Ask students to teach a proof or algorithm to a friend.</strong>Teaching something you’re not entirely competent in actually helps you understand it better. A good homework exercise for filling gaps in knowledge is to ask students to choose a theorem or proof or example presented in the course, and then try explaining it to a friend.</span></li>
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<p><span><strong>Visual learning approaches</strong></span></p>
<p><span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Mathematics concepts are most commonly given auditorily via sequential instructions. Although this method has benefits, it can be enhanced by the use of visualisation techniques. The process of visualising aids the interconnections within the mathematical mindset, from the use of colour and images to the cohesion of various types of objects. How can this be applied in practice?</span></span></p>
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<li><span>Transform an algorithm into a stream of visual cognitive procedures, such as via a flow chart. This allows for creativity and reduces processing time.</span></li>
<li><span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Place the separate components of a mathematical method or proof using labels, colours or visual shapes and then bring them together to form the final result. Visualisation is not only an illustrative tool, but an important component of reasoning. When students are able to visualise, they are deeply engaged with the conceptual understanding and not only what they are seeing.</span></span></li>
<li><span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Use charts, Venn diagrams, and graphs whenever possible to illustrate relations or any solutions found to a given problem.</span></span></li>
<li><span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Use grouping, mind-mapping or flow-mapping techniques to illustrate how an algorithm works. Organise it as a network or other non-linear diagram incorporating verbal and symbolic elements, with or without colouring.</span></span></li>
<li><span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Invite student participation that does that not involve writing such as drawing, recording video explanations, taking part in a game, using art, or completing a hands-on project.</span></span></li>
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<p><span>Not all mathematics topics, such as calculus, logic, analysis, geometry, among others, make use of the same teaching methods. Having well planned teaching styles, resources, as well as fair and well conducted assessments is fundamental to learning. All teaching approaches have pros and cons, so we must be mindful to capitalise on the advantages and minimise the disadvantages.</span></p>
<p><span><em>This article follows a collaborative online international learning (COIL) project between Layal Hakim at the University of Exeter and Beatriz Isabel G<span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">ó</span>mez García at the University of Monterrey in Mexico, and students Alejandra Sofía Ayala Elizondo, María Lucía Dow Fernández, and Cristina Aguilar Rochin. Together, they looked at how to make mathematics teaching at higher education level more effective.</em></span></p>
<p><span><strong>Layal Hakim is a senior lecturer in mathematics at the <a href="https://www.exeter.ac.uk/">University of Exeter</a>.</strong></span></p>
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Teachers are leaving and few people want to join the field. Experts are sounding the alarm
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<p class="metadata__byline"><span class="metadata__byline__author">By Christina Maxouris and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/christina-zdanowicz-profile">Christina Zdanowicz</a>, CNN</span></p>
<p class="update-time">Updated 7:56 AM ET, Sat February 5, 2022</p>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Oklahoma City University officials announced they were <a href="https://www.okcu.edu/artsci/departments/education/education-degrees-curriculum/undergraduate/early-childhood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspending the program</a><a href="https://www.okcu.edu/artsci/departments/education/education-degrees-curriculum/undergraduate/early-childhood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">s</a>in 2020 after a worrying pattern of declining enrollment -- one that's part of a national trend.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">US teacher prep programs have reported shrinking enrollment numbers over at least the past decade. Experts are sounding the alarm: The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/us/schools-pandemic-teachers-quit-wellness/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">educator profession</a> -- a critical cornerstone of American life -- is in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/us/florida-teacher-shortage/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crisis.</a></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"As more and more teachers retire, we need to have others fill that role and right now, the numbers are not looking good for us," said Heather Sparks, director of Teacher Education at Oklahoma City University. "It's heartbreaking to watch."</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/us/us-coronavirus-teachers-school-closures/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic exacerbated</a> the existing problems. Fears of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/us/georgia-teachers-covid-19-isolation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">catching Covid-19</a> and enforcing <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/politics/loudoun-county-schools-youngkin-mask-mandate/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic protocols</a> are additions to the long list of challenges teachers face daily -- from <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/us/oklahoma-arizona-teachers/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">low pay</a> and often little regard from their communities, to growing numbers of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/us/oxford-high-school-shooting-lawsuit-parents-staff/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school shootings</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/us/texas-critical-race-theory-social-studies-law/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislative requirements</a> about what and how to teach. Many educators have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/us/schools-pandemic-teachers-quit-wellness/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walked away in recent years</a> and amid a dire shortage, few people want to fill their spots.</div>
<div class="zn-body__read-all"><div class="zn-body__paragraph">"I was driven almost because of that," Reynolds, 29, said. "I want to do right by our kids."</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">While some say it's too early to know the specific impacts of the pandemic, Lynn Gangone, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) told CNN the numbers already show Covid-19 further dissuaded Americans from going into teaching. In fall 2020 and 2021, <a href="https://aacte.org/2022/02/survey-shows-positive-trends-and-lingering-effects-of-covid-in-educator-preparation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about 20% of institutions surveyed</a> by AACTE reported the pandemic resulted in a decline of new undergraduate enrollment of at least 11%. Roughly 13% of institutions <a href="https://aacte.org/2022/02/survey-shows-positive-trends-and-lingering-effects-of-covid-in-educator-preparation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> "significant" declines in the number of new graduate students. Regional state colleges and smaller private institutions -- often found in rural communities -- have seen the steepest declines.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"I don't know how bad it's going to have to get before we realize as a country that if we don't invest in education ... we will not have anyone in the classrooms to teach our children," Gangone said.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Priscilla, a northern California student teacher who did not want to use her full name for fear of the impact it may have on her career, has wanted to be a teacher since she was a teenager -- but as she prepares for the test to get her credentials this spring, she worries about how long she'll be able to cope with today's demands of being in a classroom.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"There's just so much more that's being asked of teachers now," she said. "It's just like, 'am I going to burn out in my first year?' I hope not."</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Covid-19 <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/health/cdc-k-12-covid-guidance-update/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compounded existing struggles</a> and added new hurdles for aspiring educators. Some missed in-person classroom experiences that serve as a valuable tool to prepare them for their student-teaching placements and the workforce. Others are diving into their first classroom experience by trying to figure out how to keep their students engaged after many became accustomed to tuning out <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/25/us/michigan-flint-schools-remote-learning-covid-19/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after hours on electronic screens</a>. Priscilla said much of her first year as a student teacher has involved reviewing past material to get her class up to speed. All while worrying about contracting Covid-19.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"At this point, it's more of when am I going to catch it," Priscilla said. "I'm currently substituting for my (supervising) teacher because she and her family caught Covid."</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">But even before the pandemic, the teaching profession struggled to attract new people: It promised high stress and low pay, and despite the scores of stories highlighting the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/28/us/california-teacher-sings-to-students-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often life-changing impacts</a> teachers can have on their students, educators in the US have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/01/us/south-carolina-teachers-protest-may-1/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long felt unappreciated and disregarded.</a></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"I think the perception of teaching is that there is little respect and little pay for the amount of work that has to be done," Priscilla said, adding that while her family values education, they attempted to dissuade her from pursuing teaching. "It's not as prestigious as something else, like maybe a doctor, or a nurse."</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Research from the National Education Association <a href="https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021%20Rankings_and_Estimates_Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> the average classroom teacher salary during the 2020-2021 school year was just over $65,000. Some of the lowest paying states -- offering an average salary of less than $50,000 -- include Florida, Mississippi and South Dakota, according to the research. California, Massachusetts and New York, the highest paying states, offered an average of more than $85,000.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/health/iyw-back-to-school-kids-poverty-how-to-help-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">little compensation</a> remains among the biggest challenges in recruiting future teachers, especially when combined with the costs of acquiring the necessary credentials added on to student loans.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Sabreena Shaller, a 22-year-old graduate from Millersville University and student state president for the Pennsylvania State Education Association, said her early education and special education degree came with hefty price tags, from the costs of standardized tests to transportation during her field experience -- which included frequent Uber rides to the classrooms she was placed in during her freshman year before she decided to pay for a spot for her car on campus. Other classmates, Shaller said, struggled to find transportation means.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"We don't just need those economically privileged students as our teachers, we need the teachers who also had a struggle growing up financially, because those are the teachers that our students also need," Shaller said. "But we gatekeep our education programs for those people who can afford to be a teacher."</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">And <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/10/us/denver-teacher-strike-multiple-jobs/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">it's not just socioeconomic diversity</a> the field is in desperate need of, experts say. In 2017-18, nearly 80% of public school teachers were White, 9% were Hispanic, 7% were Black and 2% Asian, according to <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/clr#:~:text=In%202017%E2%80%9318%2C%20about%2079,1%20percent%20of%20public%20school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the National Center for Education Statistics.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"Many students of color <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/us/iyw-black-men-teacher-shortage-solution-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">don't see themselves in the current teachers</a>," said AACTE's Gangone.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">And a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/black-senators-mississippi-senate-walk-out/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent legislative push</a> in states across the US to mandate what can -- and can't -- be taught in classrooms is not helping, Gangone said. A <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/us/ucla-uc-san-diego-racism-gender-study-findings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new study found</a> more than 17.7 million public school students in the US have had their learning restricted when it comes to teaching concepts related to race, racism and gender.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"The financial cost, but also the emotional cost of having to constantly battle and fight for our youth, for our children can be exhausting," said Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of the <a href="https://www.thecenterblacked.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Black Educator Development.</a></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The problem is nothing new, El-Mekki said, and even prior to debates flaring up around <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/us/critical-race-theory-what-is-it/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory (CRT)</a>, educators of color long felt policed about what they could teach, which was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/health/teacher-diversity-student-preferences/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a deterrent for aspiring teachers.</a></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">It's important that "educator prep programs understand the whole package of what it costs and make sure that they're providing support, but then also that districts provide ecosystems that are safe, supportive and sustainable," El-Mekki added.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Some college leaders say if there's a silver lining, it may be that the pandemic has made apparent that it's time for a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/politics/universal-pre-k-biden-hiring-teachers-build-back-better/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drastic shift</a> in how America's teachers work -- and how to draw more in.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has seen enrollment in teacher prep programs increase every fall since 2017, according to data provided by the college. University officials partly attribute the rise to <a href="https://education.asu.edu/arizona-teachers-academy-at-asu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a state-funded scholarship</a> that allows young educators to finish their program debt-free if they commit to teaching in schools across the state for a certain amount of time. (Other universities, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison's program, have <a href="https://tec.education.wisc.edu/teacher-pledge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar offers of financial support</a> if students pledge to teach in the state for three to four years.)</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Many feel the enrollment bump has also largely been because of a new approach the university is taking to <a href="https://workforce.education.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reshaping the teacher workforce</a> -- an approach whose vision is a team of experts working to educate students rather than one teacher per classroom.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">In that team, as <a href="https://workforce.education.asu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Elements-brief-Teams-of-educators-with-distributed-expertise-v3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the university envisions it,</a>teachers who work with students specialize in different areas and approaches -- for example, one may be a certified special educator while another specializes in mathematics -- and meet regularly to plan lessons and discuss changes. Where that team lacks expertise, additional full-time, part-time or volunteer educators can step in to cover certain subjects. It's a long way away from where the US is today, but industry leaders say it's what education should look like.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"You take a novice teacher and put (them) into the classroom," Gangone said. "How do you expect that individual, brand new out of a program, to be able to teach students who come from all different socioeconomic backgrounds, all different kinds of language backgrounds, all different kinds of family structures and today, with even more mental health issues as a result of the pandemic?"</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"We can't keep putting people in that situation," Carole Basile, dean of Arizona State's teacher college, said. "They're going to leave." New approaches to education programs can help draw more educators in, retain them, but also facilitate progress for instructional staff already in the workforce, Basile said.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">To combat a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/us/oregon-drops-licensed-substitute-teachers-requirement/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dangerous teacher and substitute shortage,</a> some states recently opted for solutions like reducing requirements needed to lead a classroom, which industry leaders say is a band-aid solution and not a long-term answer to recruit qualified people to schools.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">The problem, education leaders say, is not that a lack of people who could become teachers, but rather not enough people <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2012/09/14/us/why-teachers-stay-ireport/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">choosing it as a profession.</a></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Key in recruiting and retaining more people <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/29/politics/oklahoma-primary-teachers-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be legislative support,</a> many said. The AACTE <a href="https://adams.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/education-leaders-laud-adams-reeds-educators-america-act#:~:text=About%20the%20EDUCATORS%20for%20America%20Act&text=It%20addresses%20early%20outreach%20and,on%20ensuring%20equity%20and%20diversity." target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently expressed</a> support for the Educators for America Act, which was <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3360?s=1&r=14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> in the Senate last year and calls for an annual $500 million to support educator prep programs, among other provisions to address early outreach and preparation.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Financial support, community support, mentorships and apprenticeships will be critical in drawing in more educators of color too and in turn, inspiring more young students to enter the field, El-Mekki said.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"One of the things that students benefit from (diverse educators) is this idea of seeing themselves not only leading classrooms, but also in the curriculum," El-Mekki added.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Those dedicated to joining the field say that mission, to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/us/aap-kids-physically-in-school-wellness-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">better young people</a>, is what keeps them going. Looking to the future, there is worry -- but there's excitement too.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">"There is a lot of crazy news right now with Covid, and even with recent school shootings," Priscilla said.</div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph">But she remains determined.</div>
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Could arts and crafts improve your child’s memory?
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2022-01-30T17:48:42.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<div class="entry-header"><h1 class="post-title entry-title">Could arts and crafts improve your child’s memory?</h1>
<h2 class="entry-sub-title">Studies have shown that arts and crafts are not only good for your child’s social/emotional development but cognitive development as well.</h2>
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<div class="entry-header"><h1 class="post-title entry-title">Could arts and crafts improve your child’s memory?</h1>
<h2 class="entry-sub-title">Studies have shown that arts and crafts are not only good for your child’s social/emotional development but cognitive development as well.</h2>
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Are you looking for ways to enhance your child’s memory and visual learning? According to research, arts and crafts provide your child with a unique, fun opportunity to learn and improve their memory.<br />
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<div class="entry-content entry clearfix"><p>Who would have thought that enjoying a crafty hobby or taking art classes could protect your child’s memory?</p>
<p>Have you ever considered why art and crafts are so beneficial to a child’s development? For children aged between three and eight years old, arts and crafts can be instrumental in healthy growth and development. That’s why they do so much of it at nursery school and primary school.</p>
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<p>Studies support the idea that engaging the mind may protect neurons, or the building blocks of the brain, from dying, stimulate the growth of new neurons, or may help recruit new neurons to maintain cognitive activities your child can use in their adult years.</p>
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<h2>The development of fine motor skills</h2>
<p>Because most arts and crafts activities require moving the hands and fingers, they aid in the development of fine motor abilities. Simple activities such as colouring with pencils or using a paintbrush help to strengthen and control the muscles.</p>
<h2>Improvement of hand-eye coordination</h2>
<p>Hand-eye coordination improves dramatically when children participate in arts and crafts activities from a young age. Hand-eye coordination will help your child make letters or space out words when they start primary school.</p>
<h2>Sharpens skills of decision making</h2>
<p>A child will learn to make correct and effective decisions by facing and solving artistic challenges. This helps to develop a problem-solving attitude, which in turn, will help them in the future.</p>
<h2>Improves your child’s visual processing skills</h2>
<p>Your child’s brain uses visual processing skills to make sense of the world around them. Your child’s learning may take longer if visual processing skills are not developed, demanding more cognitive effort and slowing down the learning process. Through engaging with arts and crafts, children memorise patterns, shapes, and colours, which can help them prepare for arithmetic, reading, and writing.</p>
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From Prints to NFTs: The Photograph’s Journey Through the Digital Age
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2021-12-13T15:43:14.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<h1>From Prints to NFTs: The Photograph’s Journey Through the Digital Age</h1>
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<h1>From Prints to NFTs: The Photograph’s Journey Through the Digital Age</h1>
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<p>I grew up in a world where photographs were produced and consumed in printed format. Digital technology was already brewing in the background back then, but it was still an analog world for the average person.Newspapers, magazines, and broadcast television were among the primary means of consuming news, entertainment and advertisement. Instead of opening Google or Instagram on your smartphone, you’d walk to your local newsstand.</p>
<h2>1. Prints and the Power of Photography</h2>
<p>The way we were exposed to pictures was different, but the photograph served underlying social functions which were similar in essence to what we have today – it didn’t just convey the news, but it also helped sway the public opinion through careful editorial curation of which photos to publish or not, as well as deliberate decisions on the photographer’s part on how to compose his images and what to include in the frame. It also served as a vehicle to advertise products and services, to spark our desire and open our wallets.<img src="https://img.connatix.com/b549eb70-243a-4788-81ac-6b4babd87b26/9862a7a5-6c0e-4bd5-a652-f0fbcfcf3c28.jpg?crop=800:450,smart&width=800&height=450&format=jpeg&quality=60&fit=crop" alt="Great Reads in Photography: December 12, 2021"/><img src="https://img.connatix.com/b549eb70-243a-4788-81ac-6b4babd87b26/eab64144-36e9-4ec9-93a2-6b94e9399f60.jpg?crop=800:450,smart&width=800&height=450&format=jpeg&quality=60&fit=crop" alt="Sixty-Four Foxy Faces: Portraits of Fantastic Foxes Over 10+ Years"/><img src="https://img.connatix.com/b549eb70-243a-4788-81ac-6b4babd87b26/086639e9-3feb-4563-b7bf-572bcbbb6f6c.jpg?crop=800:450,smart&width=800&height=450&format=jpeg&quality=60&fit=crop" alt="Tips for Capturing Humanity in Street Photos"/><img src="https://img.connatix.com/b549eb70-243a-4788-81ac-6b4babd87b26/15a3817c-94e5-42f5-a5b9-e48a39db77e4.jpg?crop=800:450,smart&width=800&height=450&format=jpeg&quality=60&fit=crop" alt="5 Bad Habits I Had as a Photographer (and How I Overcame Them)"/>Photographs have the power to form opinions, express ideologies, and promote lifestyles. That much didn’t change. That’s why we have initiatives like <a href="https://www.readingthepictures.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener"><em>Reading the Pictures</em></a>, which started in 2001 and according to their own words are “dedicated to visual culture, visual literacy and media literacy through the analysis of news, documentary and social media images”. As pictures become more prevalent and numerous each year, they hope to educate the population on how to carefully “read” the nuance of their narrative and meaning.</p>
<p>Needless to say, back in the analog era, that power to form opinions was far more centralized and concentrated in the hands of the few media corporations that got to pick and choose what to show us. You also needed a lot more money if you wanted to advertise your products or your company in magazines or on television. That wasn’t a market open to small businesses.</p>
<p>It wasn’t very easy to have access to everything photography had to offer either. You were limited by the curation of magazines, galleries, and photo contests — usually the subjective taste of a few critics and editors deciding what the world could see of the photography medium. But all of that was about to change.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">2. The Digital Age and Social Media</span></p>
<img src="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/photographers-walking-in-a-line-800x513.jpg" alt="Four photographers walking across concrete" width="800" height="513" class="size-large wp-image-570305"/>https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/photographers-walking-in-a-line-320x205.jpg 320w, <a href="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/photographers-walking-in-a-line-1536x984.jpg">https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/photographers-walking-in-a-line-1536x984.jpg</a> 1536w, <a href="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/photographers-walking-in-a-line.jpg">https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/photographers-walking-in-a-line.jpg</a> 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /><br />
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<p>The advent of the digital revolution shook photography to its foundation. But it was more specifically the rise of social media that completely changed this centralized dynamic. Even though many of the big media corporations still remained on top, the tail end was extended dramatically. We saw an explosion of digital influencers, content creators, independent news channels, and small digital businesses make an appearance.</p>
<p>Suddenly, photographers who were previously unknown gained huge followings and visibility on social media like Instagram. Tips and techniques were shared faster and more easily as well, which helped to accelerate and facilitate learning for everyone. In a way, you could say access to photography became more democratic as a whole.</p>
<p>But of course, we had and still have the big elephant in the room – the social media algorithms, which dictate what shows up on your feed. Instead of only editors, we now have the almighty algorithm deciding what you see. It’s more decentralized and tailored to our own individual tastes of course, but still follows one main overruling criterion: it will prioritize whatever maximizes your engagement and time spent with the platform. And that comes with the dubious baggage of click baits, hate clicks, fake news, and doctored photos that have become a central topic of discussion in recent years.</p>
<p>On this issue of fake news and doctored pictures, we have the example of Jonas Bendiksen and his brilliant work on <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/true-story-bogus-photos-people-fake-news/" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener"><em>The Book of Veles</em></a>. While doing a photo story on the fake news industry in Macedonia, he fooled the entirety of the photography community with computer-generated fake pictures of fake people as a clever exposé on the topic, before finally revealing the truth about his project.</p>
<p>Bendiksen’s work is fertile terrain for the discussions surrounding digital photo manipulation and how to identify what is real and what isn’t. There are scientific studies showing that <a href="https://petapixel.com/2012/12/14/how-fake-photos-are-messing-with-our-perception-of-reality/">fake pictures can lead to very real changes in human memory</a>. People will remember fake photographs as real events, even when warned about the possibility that what they are seeing is fake.</p>
<p>Even though photo montages have existed since the days of the darkroom, the digital environment made photo editing and photo manipulation extremely easy and accessible to all. Even outside of the photojournalism niche, Instagram “bangers” often depict almost surreal landscapes with sky replacements, extreme color manipulations, and portraits of people with impossibly perfect curves and skin. The discussion here is not whether that is even a problem or just a natural evolution, but rather that this boundary between photography and manipulated photo illustration is getting each time more blurry and tricky to navigate as technology evolves. And this leads us to the current advances in computational photography.</p>
<h2>3. The Smartphone and Computational Photography</h2>
<img src="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/a-group-of-people-at-a-bus-stop-800x502.jpg" alt="A group of people on their phones at a bus stop" width="800" height="502" class="size-large wp-image-570306"/>https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/a-group-of-people-at-a-bus-stop-320x201.jpg 320w, <a href="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/a-group-of-people-at-a-bus-stop-1536x964.jpg">https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/a-group-of-people-at-a-bus-stop-1536x964.jpg</a> 1536w, <a href="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/a-group-of-people-at-a-bus-stop.jpg">https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/a-group-of-people-at-a-bus-stop.jpg</a> 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /><br />
© 2018 Raphael Vieira<br />
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<p>It would be very remiss of me to neglect to talk about the monumental influence that smartphone cameras have had on photography as a medium in society. <a href="https://riseaboveresearch.com/rise-above-research-estimates-that-1-13-trillion-photos-will-still-be-taken-in-2020/" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener">Rise Above Research</a> estimated that around 1.13 trillion pictures were taken in 2020, and that’s accounting for a 15% decline caused by the pandemic. Between 2010 and 2019, seven times more pictures were taken than in the preceding decade.</p>
<p>That number is not only staggering but also a direct result of the widespread use of smartphones in society. The estimation is that <a href="https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-world" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener">6.37 billion people have smartphones in the world today</a>, that’s almost 81% of the global population! This number is even higher for older model mobile phones, at 7.10 billion users, which is roughly 90% of the population. And many mobile phones have cameras in them, just like smartphones.</p>
<p>The Kodak Brownie of 1900 is widely mentioned in the history of photography for being the first attempt to bring photo cameras to the daily life of the average person. It had more affordable prices, simple controls, and a portable format. But even though it was considered a commercial success, only 150 thousand Brownies were sold in the first year of production.</p>
<p>It was truly the smartphone that quietly put photography in the hands of nearly 90% of the global population and turned picture-taking into a casual and integral part of their daily lives. And as if that wasn’t enough, smartphone cameras are also starting to take the lead in several areas of research and development, especially computational photography.</p>
<p>At first, smartphone cameras struggled to compete with dedicated camera setups due to the limitations in the size of their sensors and lenses. But <a href="https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones-vs-cameras-closing-the-gap-on-image-quality/" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener">over the years these limitations have been overcome</a>, in large part due to computational photography and AI technology. Their shutterless sensors are so blazingly fast that by pressing the release button, several pictures are taken at once, while the computational technology does its part by combining them as needed to create stunning images with high resolution, low noise, and high dynamic range, the likes of which can only be achieved by RAW file post-processing in traditional full-frame cameras.</p>
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<p>And that’s just one example of how advanced smartphone cameras are these days. High-end full-frame mirrorless cameras seem to be headed in the direction of computational photography as well, with the most recent <a href="https://petapixel.com/2021/10/28/nikon-unveils-the-z9-45-7mp-120fps-8k-and-no-mechanical-shutter/">Nikon Z9 making waves</a> as the first truly shutterless camera with incredible sensor speed.</p>
<h2>4. NFTs and the Future of Photography</h2>
<img src="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/woman-holding-photo-548x800.jpg" alt="A woman holding a photo of her holding a photo" width="548" height="800" class="size-large wp-image-570307"/>https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/woman-holding-photo-219x320.jpg 219w, <a href="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/woman-holding-photo-1051x1536.jpg">https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/woman-holding-photo-1051x1536.jpg</a> 1051w, <a href="https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/woman-holding-photo.jpg">https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/12/woman-holding-photo.jpg</a> 1095w" sizes="(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px" /><br />
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<p>Most photographs are now consumed digitally, usually on tiny smartphone screens. This has obviously impacted our workflow as photographers, but even beyond that, it has also affected the aesthetic side of image-making. From the favored vertical crop that fits better on a smartphone screen and makes better use of social media feeds, to the more graphic and contrasty look that tends to pop and get more clicks in these formats.</p>
<p>And now NFTs (or non-fungible tokens) seem to be the next evolution in digital image consumption and art collection. This article won’t go into details on what NFTs are – if you don’t know yet, you can <a href="https://petapixel.com/2021/03/12/what-is-an-nft-and-why-should-photographers-care/">check it out here</a>. But basically, NFTs are allowing photographs to be sold and collected by art dealers in digital format as if they were actual limited edition fine art prints.</p>
<p>The blockchain technology underlying NFTs allows the use of a coded smart contract every time an NFT is sold online. This contract ensures that a particular NFT is a limited edition with ‘X’ number of copies, after which it can’t be sold anymore, only existing copies can be resold. Not only that, but the photographer can also specify a royalty fee percentage, so every time a copy is resold, he will automatically receive a part of the profit.</p>
<p>Many photographers are already starting to make a living out of NFTs. And this is just scratching the surface of what NFTs and smart contracts can do. Several content creators and digital influencers are already using smart contracts in more creative ways to build their communities. Just as an example, you could create a project where each NFT sold will buy the owner of that NFT a VIP membership in your community, access to photo courses or lessons, or even one-on-one video conferences or real-life meetings with you.</p>
<p>The future is here. The way we produce and consume photographs has gradually shifted from analog to digital and now we’re headed towards computational photography and blockchain technologies. But what hasn’t changed in these last few decades is the function of photography. We still take pictures for sentimental value and to remember important events, to share our lives with friends and the world, to inform and promote values, to market products, services, and lifestyles, to inspire and express our emotions and ideas. And all of that is still best achieved through the careful and deliberate use of composition and lighting, regardless of whether you’re carrying a smartphone, the latest model mirrorless full-frame camera, or a nostalgic 35mm film SLR.</p>
<hr/><p><em><strong>About the author</strong>: Raphael Vieira is a conceptual photographer based in Brazil. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. Raphael started in photography at the New York Institute of Photography in 2008, and has been working professionally ever since. Before that, however, Raphael dedicated himself to the study of Psychology, obtaining a Master of Arts in Behavior Analysis from Columbia University. At the intersection of these different paths, his photographic work often places fictional characters in situations of conflict and tension, portraying the human psyche in photos that are captured directly on camera, without post-processing montages or manipulations. You can find more of Vieira’s work on <a href="https://en.raphaelvv.com/" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener">his website</a>. This article was also published <a href="https://www.raphaelvv.com/post/from-prints-to-nfts-the-photograph-s-journey-through-the-digital-age" target="_blank" rel="follow external noopener">here</a>.</em></p>
<p>Creator of the e-book O Olhar do Fotógrafo (2020) , Raphael seeks to democratize and demystify the hidden knowledge about how to photograph well; he is a photographer, an educator and a psychologist.</p>
<hr/><p><em><strong>Image credits:</strong> Header photograph © 2009 Raphael Vieira</em></p>
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Five ways smart displays can transform classroom teaching
tag:visualteaching.ning.com,2021-12-08:2629116:BlogPost:94804
2021-12-08T15:42:16.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
http://visualteaching.ning.com/profile/TimGangwer
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<div class="elementor-element elementor-element-403e0c0e standfirst elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix">As the old saying goes – don’t change something that’s not broken. So why, then, should classrooms and lecture halls ditch the blackboard or whiteboard – a proven entity that’s been used to help teach generations of learners – for a smart display like the Elmo Board and Visualizer? The answer is simple: because it can help enhance the educational experience.</div>
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<h2><strong>#1. Enhanced visual learning</strong></h2>
<p>Concepts that can be demonstrated visually are more likely to be retained. Students, for example, are far more likely to understand a discussion of a particular chemical reaction if they can see it play out before their very eyes – rather than simply reading about it in a book or having it described by a teacher.</p>
<p>The Elmo Board is a large, standalone touch-sensitive display that can be used with a connected camera called the Visualizer, boasting some impressive zoom capabilities. Using this setup, teachers can demonstrate live experiments at the front of the classroom, adding a much-needed visual component to their teaching. The Elmo Board also features its own apps and other valuable abilities, such as the possibility of using it to play video. With the aid of such a versatile multimedia tool, teachers have a new way to rethink lesson plans to embrace the power of visual learning.</p>
<h2><strong>#2. Enhance interaction with the class</strong></h2>
<p>With a traditional blackboard or whiteboard, teachers may spend much of each lesson with their backs to the students, writing down notes. Not only is this less engaging to students, but it can also make it difficult to monitor the behavior of students in the classroom. Using a smart display, teachers can spend more of the lesson addressing students directly, rather than reproducing notes they already had written down ahead of the lesson.</p>
<p>This is both a more efficient use of time in the classroom, and can also have considerable positive impacts when it comes to making lessons more lively and interactive, as well as improving behavior.</p>
<h2><strong>#3. Build on the mantra of digital-first learning</strong></h2>
<p>Many schools today embrace the digital revolution, opting to give students tablets and computers as part of their learning experience. A smart display at the front of the class means that teachers can more easily demonstrate how to use a particular app or provide other help.</p>
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<p>They can also adapt lessons to be more interactive, utilizing the same hyperlinks and multimedia that increasingly represent the way that students learn. A blackboard or whiteboard can’t provide teachers with a way to readily access the internet, the world’s largest information resource. A smart display can. In doing so, it brings teachers into line with the tools available to students.</p>
<h2><strong>#4. They’re low maintenance</strong></h2>
<p>How many cumulative hours do teachers spend wiping blackboards and whiteboards during and after classes? This might seem a minor point, but the ability to ditch the messy chalk or pen required for traditional classroom writing surfaces is a game-changer. That aspect of smart displays is something that should not be overlooked. Their low maintenance requirements make them a crucial classroom innovation.</p>
<h2><strong>#5. They are environmentally friendly</strong></h2>
<p>Plenty has been written about the paperless office, but how about the paperless classroom? Teachers still frequently make use of photocopiers to hand out notes for the classroom. Using a smart display, teachers can show that same information to the class without having to waste the copious amounts of paper and ink that they currently do when it comes to prepping for a particular lesson. Not only does this save the environment – it also saves a whole lot of time, too.</p>
<p>Visit: <a href="https://edtechnology.co.uk/directory-listing/elmo/">https://edtechnology.co.uk/directory-listing/elmo/ </a></p>
<hr/><p><strong>You might also like:</strong> <a href="https://edtechnology.co.uk/sponsored/the-teaching-tool-schools-need-most-for-distance-remote-and-hybrid-learning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The teaching tool schools need most for distance, remote and hybrid learning</a></p>
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Identify the Learning Styles of New Students in the Classroom
tag:visualteaching.ning.com,2021-10-20:2629116:BlogPost:94704
2021-10-20T14:09:39.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
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<p><strong>Recognizing Learning Styles with the VARK Model</strong></p>
<p>In the education sector, teachers and other authoritative persons are always working hard on inventing new ways to improve the learning experience for students. Learning styles can be identified based on four popular models. Let us dive deep to understand what these exactly are.</p>
<p>VARK expands as:</p>
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<li>Visual</li>
<li>Auditory</li>
<li>Reading</li>
<li>Kinesthetic</li>
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<p>It’s time to understand how to implement VARK into identifying the learning styles of students. The <strong>homework help</strong> professionals also believe it to be an efficient way to integrate into the classrooms.</p>
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<p>Visual learning is undoubtedly an effective way to leave a long-lasting effect on the learners’ minds.</p>
<p><strong>How to recognize the visual learners in the classroom?</strong></p>
<p>Students who like to observe everything and then develop a fair understanding of the subjects through graphics are visual learners. They may visualize the information as diagrams, charts, written directions, and pictures to gain knowledge on a certain subject.</p>
<p>Experts refer to this learning style as “spatial”. Moreover, such students incline towards preparing notes and lists to make the entire experience with an interactive approach. You can find such kids scribbling or drawing on their notebooks.</p>
<p><strong>The best approach to encourage visual learners?</strong></p>
<p>The traditional way of classroom learning involves using whiteboards to share information with the class. Further, let students explore their creative side. Welcome them in front of the class and let them show their creativity. Teachers can also hand over notes and share presentations with the students.</p>
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<p>It is natural for visual learners to take their time and observe everything carefully. Hence, it is always best to let them assimilate the information as per their own cord.</p>
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<p>Sound is another effective sensory learning method to facilitate the understanding of the concepts.</p>
<p><strong>How to identify the auditory learners in classrooms?</strong></p>
<p>Students who respond well upon hearing the information are categorized as auditory learners. Recorded lectures and voice notes are the best option for such learners. Reading a subject out loud in the classroom or to themselves helps in grasping the difficult concepts easily for such students.</p>
<p>Further, they become confident enough to convey the issues they may be facing. Moreover, such students are excellent at explaining. Auditory learners could have a hard time while reading.</p>
<p><strong>How to encourage visual learners?</strong></p>
<p>The best way to promote the learning abilities of visual learners is by involving them in the lectures. Start a discussion about the topics you have taught. It gives the auditory learners a chance to listen to the perspective of others and process information accordingly. Another great way to improve their learning experience is by playing educational videos and music tapes.</p>
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<p>Reading and writing are two major ways to recall information and memorize it long-term.</p>
<p><strong>How to identify the reading or writing style of learning?</strong></p>
<p>Written words are powerful enough to motivate students to express themselves. This type of learning could be mistaken for visual learning. However, both are completely different.</p>
<p>Many students are naturally inclined towards reading journals, articles, textbooks, or writing notes and diaries.</p>
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<p><strong>How to support reading/writing learners?</strong></p>
<p>Reading and writing remain to be the oldest styles of learning and enhancing knowledge. It involves going through books, searching for information, and writing down everything. These types of learners are mostly active in writing tasks.</p>
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<p>The reading/writing learners face difficulty in articulating their ideas verbally. They prefer writing as the way to express the information.</p>
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<p>Indulging yourself in a task and learning through experiences is a practical way of building knowledge.</p>
<p><strong>How to identify kinesthetic learners in the classroom?</strong></p>
<p>The students who learn everything better by active involvement in the tasks are called kinesthetic learners. They are also known as tactile learners and believe in immersing in the experiences.</p>
<p>Their hands and bodies are the learning props. Hence, they naturally act by involving hand gestures, and acting on the events is what they naturally follow. Usually, kinesthetic learners are decent athletes and dancers as both activities involve physical gestures.</p>
<p><strong>The Best Ways to Support Kinesthetic Learners</strong></p>
<p>Kinesthetic learners work well when they are involved in movements. As a teacher, you may encourage the students to act on a specific scene taken from their chapter.</p>
<p>Further, the learning games are a perfect activity to improve their learning experience. The idea is to let them move around, stay active and use the whiteboard as a prop to express their ideas.</p>
<p><strong>Final Words</strong></p>
<p>Learning is a constant process and it is not restricted to the classroom. Thus, teachers and parents should observe a child’s learning patterns. It helps in recognizing the learning styles of students which can effectively affect their potential to connect with the topics.</p>
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The Literate Lawyer
tag:visualteaching.ning.com,2021-10-20:2629116:BlogPost:94504
2021-10-20T14:06:16.000Z
Timothy Gangwer
http://visualteaching.ning.com/profile/TimGangwer
<h1 class="single-post__title">The Literate Lawyer</h1>
<h2 class="single-post__subtitle">Lawyers failing to become multi-literate. Specifically, they lack the visual literacy needed to interpret much of today's communication.</h2>
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<h1 class="single-post__title">The Literate Lawyer</h1>
<h2 class="single-post__subtitle">Lawyers failing to become multi-literate. Specifically, they lack the visual literacy needed to interpret much of today's communication.</h2>
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<p>See what I mean?</p>
<p>The purpose of this article, however, is not to address the crime known as legalese. It is to address the common mistake of lawyers failing to become multi-literate. Specifically, they lack visual literacy.</p>
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<p>Visual literacy refers to the ability to understand the language of visual formats like images. This involves factors such as perception, communication, connotation, and thinking behind and around the images.</p>
<p>Lawyers should be able to derive intention and meaning. With communication channels becoming increasingly centered around media, it is the responsibility of lawyers to understand them. They should know how much legal weight they hold and what cultural meanings are assigned to different symbols.</p>
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<p>Can a GIF, sticker, or emoji be taken as a serious threat? An acceptance of a contract? A joke? Should memes be considered hate speech if they target a certain person or group? Who is held responsible in the event of offensive media being shared? Is it the original creator of the image or the person who shared it? What about the people in the group who never said anything? Are they held liable as accomplices?</p>
<p>These are but a few of the hundreds — if not thousands — of questions that revolve around visuals. A lawyer needs to understand the ambiguities involved and should even be aware of what groups of people may or may not be familiar with their ambiguous natures. All of that will be pivotal in future legal cases and even when giving legal advice today.</p>
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<p>Even now, the number of cases involving arguments over the meanings of images and emojis has drastically increased. The widespread rise in the use of media is not going to decline any time soon, or ever, for that matter. Just look at Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. That’s how people communicate now.</p>
<p>Semantics may need to play the second fiddle to visual literacy at some point. In many cases, the law will become more and more about the interpretation of images, rather than the syntactic formulations of text. It won’t replace such formulations, but, as the media train gains momentum, more people are going to hop on.</p>
<p>The direction of society is directly related to the direction of law; as such, it should be heeded. Lawyers should be proactive about this, lest they fall behind and render themselves out of date in a profession that is always moving forward.</p>
<hr/><p><em><strong><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-504327 alignright" src="https://abovethelaw.com/uploads/2018/06/Olga-Mack-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150"/>Olga V. Mack is the CEO of </strong></em><a href="https://parleypro.com/"><em><strong>Parley Pro</strong></em></a><em><strong>, a next-generation contract management company that has pioneered online negotiation technology. Olga embraces legal innovation and had dedicated her career to improving and shaping the future of law. She is convinced that the legal profession will emerge even stronger, more resilient, and more inclusive than before by embracing technology. Olga is also an award-winning general counsel, operations professional, startup advisor, public speaker, adjunct professor, and entrepreneur. She founded the </strong></em><a href="https://www.womenserveonboards.com/"><em><strong>Women Serve on Boards</strong></em></a><em><strong> movement that advocates for women to participate on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies. She authored </strong></em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-Board-Earning-Ticket-Corporate/dp/1949991407"><em><strong>Get on Board: Earning Your Ticket to a Corporate Board Seat</strong></em></a><em><strong> and </strong></em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Smart-Contract-Security-Richard-ebook/dp/B07S8YF27G"><em><strong>Fundamentals of Smart Contract Security</strong></em></a><em><strong>. You can follow Olga on Twitter @olgavmack.</strong></em></p>
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