Visual Teaching Alliance
Visual literacy is the ability to analyze and derive meaning from information presented in image form. Under this definition, images can be “read” and through the process of “reading” these images, meaning can be derived and subsequently communicated.
One of the seven recommendations made in a report from the Office of Educational Technology (U.S. Department of Education, 2004) for continuing to improve the use of technology in schools is a distinct move toward digital…
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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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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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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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[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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From left: Carol Podedworny, Joyce Zazulak, David Price, Erin Frotten, Maria Deleon-Matsuda, Lennox Mirander, Puneet Seth, Meng Lu, Faiza Upal, Andrew Smith, Karen Scott Booth, and Hannah Staniszkis (Jennifer Kagan not in photo). photo: Richard Zazulak
Last week we celebrated the opening of a new exhibition at…
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Shannon Flaum, Ph.D.
SKF Educational Services, LLC
The students of today’s classrooms are bombarded with visual and graphical information: television, billboards, gaming systems, computer interfaces, cell phones, and IPods, for example, contain powerful images and symbols that require an entirely new technological vocabulary. Yet, mere exposure to images does not necessarily lead to understanding, and in fact, students often lack the…
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I’ve always been a big fan of change. That’s why I teach overseas. That’s why I teach middle school. That’s why I teach. Change is good. And I’m the kind of teacher who is constantly seeking out new ideas, the latest research, and ways to be better at what I’m doing. I know there are many teachers who are afraid of change and set in…
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VISUAL LITERACY
When we are young we are taught to read: to link words together and carefully consider the
meanings, nuances, and impact of written language. Like words, photographs express human
thought and emotion, record significant personal and historic events, and can influence our
thoughts and actions. Though we live in a culture where we are constantly bombarded with
visual information, few students are ever…
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Duke University Libraries and the Nasher Museum of Art challenge members of the academic community to consider how they think about the visual world by asking “How do you look?”
Visual literacy is an increasingly important skill, and…
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COMPOSITION & the ELEMENTS of VISUAL DESIGN© R. Berdan 20/01/2004 |
| Many photographers on purchasing a new camera are preoccupied with learning its various features and controls and no doubt, this is important in obtaining correctly exposed images and an appropriate depth of field. However, once the basic operation of the camera is mastered, one needs to… |
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Stockton to Host Prestigious International Visual Literacy Association Conference Sept. 28 – Oct.2
IVLA, Dedicated to Research, Study and Publication of Visual Literacy,
to Hear Keynote Speech by Stockton Professor Wendel White
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Contact: Tim Kelly
Office of Public Relations
Galloway Township, NJ…
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