Visual Teaching Alliance

November 2012 Blog Posts (4)

Three-Prong Definition of Visual Teaching

The Visual Teacher is an educator who embraces and models full spectrum visual literacy.

The Visual Teacher avoids passive learning experiences by bridging seeing and doing using appropriate projects, activities, and technologies.

The Visual Teacher utilizes graphic, image-rich technologies in his or her teaching.

Timothy Gangwer

Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 21, 2012 at 3:38pm — No Comments

101 Tips on How to Become More Creative

By Michael Michalko | Oct 27, 2012

Synopsis

Tips to change your usual mental thinking…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 18, 2012 at 11:09am — No Comments

The Power of Visualization

Brain Basics, Part One: The Power of Visualization

Understanding how the brain works can go a long way to maximizing its potential.

Published on November 4, 2012 by Christopher Taibbi, M.A.T. in Gifted-Ed Guru

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own know what I am talking about: you ask him to get out his homework…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 18, 2012 at 11:06am — No Comments

What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN

updated 5:14 PM EST, Tue November 6, 2012

Pablo Picasso once said, "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 7, 2012 at 9:50am — No Comments