Resources | ACRL Visual Literacy Standards. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative recently released “7 Things You Should Know About Visual Literacy.” As usual, the brief is a jargon-free overview of the topic as it relates to teaching and learning. It’s worth reading, and provides fodder for conversations with colleagues and faculty. If you’re short on time, here are the high points from each of the “7 Things:” What is it?
“Visual literacy is the ability to recognize and critically appreciate meaning in visual content and to use visual elements to create effective communication.”How does it work? Amanda H. VLTF members recently contributed to ACRL’s Keeping Up With… series with a brief on Visual Literacy. On October 3, 2013, Nicole E. The presentation shares techniques for using images in libraries, with a focus on pedagogical considerations. A screencast of the full webinar is available here. Here is a new visualization of concepts in the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Information Literacy in the Disciplines: Art | Instruction Section Website.
The ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines Committee has gathered links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education in Art. 1. Accrediting Agencies & Professional Associations Art Libraries Society of North America Brown, Jeanne M., Paul Glassman, and Janine J. Henri. The Library and the Accreditation Process in Design Disciplines: Best Practices (ARLIS/NA Occasional Paper No. 14).
Brown, Jeanne, Jane Carlin, Thomas Caswell, Edith Crowe, Maya Gervits, Susan Lewis, Alan Michelson, Barbara Opar, and Jennifer Parker. 2007. “ Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines.” Ball, Heather, Bella Karr Gerlich, Tule Gianni, Paul Glassman, B.J. National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD) National Association of School of Arts and Design Handbook 2015-2016. 2. Tao, Dorothy.
Learning Objects - Tutorials (Design) Constructivist Learning Theory. The Museum and the Needs of People CECA (International Committee of Museum Educators) Conference Jerusalem Israel, 15-22 October 1991 Prof. George E. Hein Lesley College. Massachusetts USA Introduction The latest catchword in educational circles is "constructivism, " applied both to learning theory and to epistemology---both to how people learn, and to the nature of knowledge.1,2 We don't need to succumb to each new fad, but we do need to think about our work in relation to theories of learning and knowledge.
Constructivism What is meant by constructivism? 1) we have to focus on the learner in thinking about learning (not on the subject/lesson to be taught): 2) There is no knowledge independent of the meaning attributed to experience (constructed) by the learner, or community of learners. Let me discuss the second point first because, although it appears radical on an everyday level, it is a position which has been frequently adopted ever since people began to ponder epistemology. 1. 2.
Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows. Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain may be in trouble. People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found.
High-tech jugglers are everywhere – keeping up several e-mail and instant message conversations at once, text messaging while watching television and jumping from one website to another while plowing through homework assignments. But after putting about 100 students through a series of three tests, the researchers realized those heavy media multitaskers are paying a big mental price. "They're suckers for irrelevancy," said communication Professor Clifford Nass, one of the researchers whose findings are published in the Aug. 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Everything distracts them. " Communications in info lit - Vol 7, No 2 (2013) VARK -- A Guide to Learning Styles.