Visual Teaching Alliance
This was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University and author of a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal.
By Mark Phillips
The world of educational reform is stuck.
Don’t you get…
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Learning complex tasks such as speaking Latin or perfecting the piano have traditionally required…
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Compiled by Helena Zinkham, June 2004
Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540-4730
Visual literacy, the ability to read and understand pictures, is a basic skill for working with
prints, photographs, drawings, and other pictorial materials. You need to learn to recognize
subject content. You also need to consider the intent of the image creators, the influence of
production techniques, and the…
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Students might have already noticed, but everyone possesses a unique learning style. Neil Fleming, an experienced teacher has discovered three…
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Media teacher John Schaefer is in “the Lab” at the Leonardo, and he will be through the end of December.
John is dedicated to preparing children to make a contribution to the media world. He teaches school age children a variety of…
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QR codes such as this one certainly aren’t all that new, but they seem to be infiltrating…
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Queens College’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum has received a new grant that they hope will be able to improve the lives of adults still learning the English language.
The grant is funding “CALTA 21,” an initiative that will incorporate visual learning strategies through art, which will help immigrants and adult English language learners gain a better grasp of English. Godwin-Ternbach is one of four institutions receiving the $495,000…
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There's been a lot of talk about the demise of the picture book. Parent Tracy Grantsummarized the heated debate in this piece in the Washington Post. Maurice Sendak chimed in to say that the picture book is…
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If you’re a student, teacher, or administrator at a high school looking into adopting iPads for educational purposes, it’s important to know that the iPad is more than just an easy way to…Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 28, 2011 at 11:44am — No Comments
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Texting or emailing while driving is far more dangerous than previously thought and more than doubles a person's reaction times a new study has found.
Researchers from Texas A&M…
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November 21, 2011
Technology-rich learning environment improves retention rates over traditional learning environments
A study released on Monday by the Rochester Institute of Technology found using a technology-rich learning environment in many undergraduate engineering-technology…
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By Professor Dr Anne Bamford, International Research Agency
Computer generated animation has been in development of some form or another since the 1960s. However…
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Visual thinking, also called visual learning, is a proven method of organizing ideas graphically - with concept maps, mind maps and webs. Scientifically based research demonstrates that visual learning techniques improve memory, organization, critical thinking and planning.
Visual thinking is an intuitive and easy-to-learn strategy that works for many academic and professional projects. The more complex the task or idea, the more…
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[by Tom Kennedy]
In an era of maximum image saturation, where every iPhone is a camera and no aspect of human activity goes undocumented, no matter how mundane, new questions emerge as to the value and utility of photography as a means of understanding human experience.
As someone who began as my career as a newspaper photographer and then worked for a…
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