Post on 20-Aug-2015
Visual Literacy
Science 8/13/09
National Educational Technology Standards
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Guidelines for Best Practice
1. Images must specifically illustrate the targeted content and match the
instructional goal.
2. Ensure that students have a meaningful interaction with images
or video.
Earth at Night
The Skill of Picture Reading
Questioning vs Telling
3. Make sure the images and videos supplement your good instruction,
not replace it.
The Meniscus
Science Safety
4. Model appropriate use and attribution of copyrighted digital
images and video.
Creative Commons
Best Practices
Engage
Student Generated Images
Collect Visual Data
• Virtual Collections
• Life Cycles
• Long-term Events
• Before/During/After pictures of experiments
• Observe
• Infer
• Questions
Analysis of Images
Artwork Thanks• Image: 'autism neuroimaging study' by Ian Ruotsala at
www.flickr.com/photos/46813052@/189736044
• Image: 'underneath a star' by jaeWALK at www.flickr.com/photos/31874781@N00/3133924813
• Image: 'Daphnies' by ComputerHotline at www.flickr.com/photos/36519414@N00/1570948622
• Daphnia pulex Heart Beat by acociles at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDwYghgb2k
• Earth at Night Credit: C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC), NOAA/NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive at http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081005.html
Artwork Thanks!
• Image: 'Future is Bright !' by rAmmoRRison www.flickr.com/photos/73662475@N00/2651957971
• http://morrisonlabs.com/meniscus.htm
• Image: 'breakaway' by Sean Wallis at www.flickr.com/photos/32868342@N00/1467357780
• Image: 'hook' by EssjayNZ at www.flickr.com/photos/19387816@N00/2809206955
• www.kaboodle.com/channel/gadgets/post/watch-your-plants-grow
Work Cited• Bell, Randy, Gess-Newsome Julie, and Luft,
Julie: Technology in the Secondary Science Classroom: NSTA Press, 2008
• Dean Shareski at MICDS Summer Institute on 7/13/09. Presentation: “Let’s Get Visual”
• National Educational Technology Standards from ISTE at: http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS