Visual Teaching Alliance
December 25th, 2011 Author: Sebastian Buchner
If you want to be a good photographer, you have to be visually intelligent and literate. What a writer does with words, juggling and dancing with them, subduing them, making them do things that they ordinarily do not, that you have to do with images.
But what does it mean to be visually literate? It means to be able to read an image; to understand that in a good…
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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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