Towards a Framework for Visual Literacy Learning. 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.
My Visual Literacy resources at del.icio.us Visual Literacy Framework: There is a biological basis for visual communication. 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. Emotion, depicted through visual means, sells the message. Students must learn how to convey meaning by using emotion. You have to share it. Critical Reading Citations: The Strength of Weak Ties » Towards a Framework for Visual Literacy Learning. Education remix: New media, literacies, and the emerging digital geographies. 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. Attention to digital geographies, and attendant communicative practices, can yield important insights about education beyond the school walls. The conclusion addresses the implications of this research for meaningful educational contexts for adolescents’ literacies and how learning might be conceptualized and designed within school. Introduction Situating “new” literacies. NMLWhitePaper.pdf (application/pdf Object) Amazon.