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Visual literacy Definition: 21st Century Skills : Can students interpret, use, appreciate and create images and video using both conventional and 21st Century media in ways that advance thinking, decision-making, communication and learning. Media Literacy Definition: Center for Media Literacy : The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms My definition: In my opinion, visual literacy is composed of three discrete skills: navigating , evaluating , and communicating (create and mashup) in the context of visual imagery. Vision is a partnership of the brain, eyes, and a variety of nerves . The auditory nerve transmits sound to the brain and is composed of about 30,000 fibers. Contrast that with the optic nerve which sends visual signals to the brain through 1 million fibers (Burmark 2002).
David Jakes Presentation Resources - Towards a Framework for Visual Literacy Learning
I recently completed a Webinar for ISTE on visual literacy which was based on a framework I’ve developed for understanding visual literacy beginning with the brain and extending the concept through networked learning. It’s something that’s been through a number of revisions and I think it works well. You can see the hyperlinked text on my presentation Web site , and I’ve embedded the corresponding slide deck here. My thanks to ISTE for offering the opportunity to give four Webinars this fall. If you are interested, ISTE Webinars can be found here .
The Strength of Weak Ties » Towards a Framework for Visual Literacy Learning
Abstract This article explores instances of youth educating themselves beyond the boundaries of school through engagement with and production of “digital geographies,” or the emerging landscapes that are being produced through the confluence of new communicative practices and available media and technologies. A framework of digital geographies, which is grounded in theories of spatiality, literacies, and multimodality, is used to analyze the social media practices and multimedia artifacts produced by two court-involved youth, who are part of an ongoing, multi-year ethnography of an alternative to incarceration program.
Education remix: New media, literacies, and the emerging digital geographies - Digital Culture & Education
I can't say enough good things about this book. Jekins critiques "traditional" convergence theory about converging media and argues that the instigator of convergence is the need for new patterns of consumption, not production. Each chapter addresses how fans of a particular program reorganize their media experiences to better participate in the discussion, analysis and, at times, production of future episodes or events. Because he demonstrates through example, the text is approachable to the scholar and the layman alike. The subjects themselves make the read interesting, but Jenkins also brings his wisdom to bear at opportune moments.