The Powerof imagesempowers thinking

Bernie MillarDept Clothing & Textile Technology

Information Literacy – Visual literacy

Structure of Presentation

Only two aspects of my visual teaching• Schema theory where previously acquired

knowledge is called schemata•Theoretical Framework – New Literacy Studies,

New Media Literacies Studies•Comprehension and Reflection

What? So What? Now What?

Teaching students how to read a visual text

ENABLE COMPREHENSION by getting students to engage with and to think about what they see in front of them…Start with a visual text like an image or picture…

What do you see?

Romanesco - a vegetable fractal

Schema Theory

• A schema, then, is a generalized description or a conceptual system for understanding knowledge-how knowledge is represented and how it is used.

• According to this theory, schemata represent knowledge about concepts: objects and the relationships they have with other objects, situations, events, sequences of events, actions, and sequences of actions.

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821

1769- Born 15 Aug on Corsica, an island 1795-1799 Famous French army general1800 – First Consul of France1804 – Became Emperor of France1812 – Disastrous war against Russia1814 – Napoleon abdicated as Emperor

Exiled to Elba1815- Returned to power in France1815 –Defeated by British at Waterloo

Exiled to island called St Helena1821- Died on St Helena, aged 51

Autocratic leadershipVery controlling, leader has great deal of power

Theoretical FrameworkNew Literacy Studies - James Gee et al. New Media Literacy Studies – taking a critical, socially and culturally situated stance: Buckingham ; Coiro, Lankshear, Knobel & Leu 2009:“The new literacies of the Internet are sufficiently distinctive that they require their own theoretical framework – one that is grounded in the social practices of the new literacies of the Internet & other ICT, and the contexts & conditions under which these social practices occur, develop and evolve ... and for critical evaluation to be applied” ...

Economics: Supply and Demand Curves

Accounting: Financial Statements

Using TED TALKS

To encourage student engagement with reflection on and understanding of the visual text...

To enable critical & analytical thinking...

To lay down mental schemata...

To broaden horizons & foster knowledge...

Using TED TALKS

I ask 3 questions

taken from the principles of Service Learning’s Reflective Journals

WHAT?

WHAT? – What’s the text about? Descriptive... Summary & beyond...

SO WHAT?

SO WHAT? – Shift from descriptive to interpretative – So what does this mean for me? Explore what it means for me... why should I be interested in this? My feelings? Lessons learned?

NOW WHAT?

Now What? How does this fit into the bigger picture? Now that I see this has some meaning for me,

now what am I going to do about this in the future ?

I can create an action plan, I can set future goals... FREE-WRITE...

LEWIS PUGH’s 1km swim across the North Pole July 2007

Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral

Using Video to think about dangers of social media

www.khanacademy.org

To download videos

Download REALPLAYER from the InternetIt’s FreeEvery time you watch a video, a banner pops up

to ask: “Download this video?”Click on it and Voila!You can build up a library of videos

TeachertrainingVideos.com to create FOTOBABBLES

youtube.com/edu125,000 free instructional videos from universities and independent educators like the Khan Academy.

moma.org/modernteachersThe Museum of Modern Art offers free guides, lessons, and images on topics like futurism and artists like Eva Hesse and Roy Lichtenstein.

code.google.com/edu Computer science students and educators can access tutorials, courses, and videos on web programming, distributed systems, and other Google-related fare. Many courses were developed by Googlers themselves.

apple.com/education/itunes-u

With Stanford, Oxford, MIT, and some 800 other universities offering lectures on iTunes, you can carry lessons on anything from astrophysics to zoology on your iPhone.

cnx.org CONNEXIONS - This open source site lets users assemble educational materials—videos,documents, charts—in one place. Called knowledge chunks, these lessons can then be shared with the public for revising and remixing.

engineerguy.com In his dazzling video series, University of Illinois engineering professor Bill Hammack explains the workings of everyday objects—like a computer hard drive or a lightbulb.

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