Created by: Britney Murphy Visual Literacy Britney Murphy
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What is Visual Literacy? Definition: The learned ability to
interpret visual messages accurately and to create such messages.
Britney Murphy
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Why is it Important to Know About Visual Literacy? Britney
Murphy It is important to know about visual literacy so you can
have an understanding and to help your students interpret art and
visual media that they come in contact with. It introduces the
process of analytical thinking about representation and meaning. It
allows students to visualize while reading charts, graphs,
pictures, and posters.
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Why Use Visuals in Instruction? Britney Murphy Helps Provide a
Concrete Referent for Ideas Make Abstract Ideas Concrete Motivate
Learners Gives Direct Attention to Students Repeating of
Information helps children gain the knowledge Recall Prior Learning
Reduce Learning Effort Students may learn better visually Might be
able to interpret things more if actually seen instead of read
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Value Added to the Learning Process Britney Murphy Interest
learning for children Increase retention of information and
learning Aid communication Explain the relationships between
certain things Clarify difficult and hard to understand
information
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Designed to Influence Children Learning Britney Murphy Simple
Clear language/text Informative Show abstract idea into more of a
realistic format Showing relationships between 2 or more things Use
graphs such as pie charts, line graphs, or posters that help
students visualize what they are leaning Illustrations that show
one thing that can lead into another
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2 General Approaches to Teach Visual Literacy Britney Murphy
Teaching by pictures, drawings, charts, graphs, posters, and
cartoons Teaching by PowerPoint, Prezi, Or the Overhead
Projector.
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6 Types of Visuals Britney Murphy Pictures - a photographic
representation of a famous person like George Washington Drawings -
student drawn sketch or diagram of a person or a place Charts - the
water cycle or the food chain Graphs - bar graph, pictorial graph,
circle graph, and line graph Posters - the food pyramid or the
color wheel Cartoons - caricatures of real or fictional people,
animals, and events
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When Should You Use Presentation Software for Instruction?
Britney Murphy An example of presentation software could be
PowerPoint, Prezi, digital images, overhead projector, or printed
visuals Most teacher would use this software when they are teaching
a lesson or trying to get information to your students through
learning
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Qualities of an Essential Question Britney Murphy Answers
cannot be found, they must be constructed They cast old knowledge,
ideas, texts, in a new light They generate multiple answers and
perspectives They generate more questions They lead to discovery
and uncovering, rather than simply covering, a topic They are
engagingly framed They are higher-order; they always take us to
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation Students must go beyond the
information given to develop their answers