feet= stand on something representative of what you teach or do in ed.
Are YOU a Visual Thinker?
Are YOU a Visual Thinker?
THE
dual coding!and!
picture superiority effect
Paivio
External memory aids, such as sketches and diagrams, can help us overcome the limited capacity of our short- and long-term memories
Allen Newell and Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon
restructuring
idea pivoting
flexibility
(modifying initial ideas; coming up with novel changes)
“Why Doodlers are the New ‘Now’”
important in cross-cultural groups, for whom visual sketches can bridge gaps of understanding
“The Whirl”, Dave Gray
“graphical library” !
“visual alphabet” !
“iconic language”
Dan Roam “vivid thinking”
Dan Roam “vivid thinking”
synthesis!!
metaphorical thinking!!
critical thinking
Tyranny of…
Gutenberg Parenthesis
return to more visual/ oral
“make audio go viral with eye candy”
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“make audio go viral with eye candy”
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"Scholars will be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years"
- Thomas Edison
media literacy and
digital fluency
early Muppets
early Muppets
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VIZIPHONE
use metaphorical and visual thinking to express complex and abstract ideas
non-verbal collaboration
power of images to tell a story !and relate complex ideas
Part II: Playing the Game!
each person, 1 min
have a story in mind
draw as much of that story as possible in 1 min
pass book to next person
1 minute to “add” to the story
divide paper into 4 boxes
RULES:!!
no talking (this game must be entirely non-verbal until the end)
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you may draw in the next box of the storyboard or embellish the previous person’s drawing
try to avoid “drawing” words and phrases
last person who drew should share out loud with the group what they perceived the stories to be
first person should then share in what ways end result was similar or different than original intent
Part II: Debriefing Viziphone
What types of symbols and icons were useful in communicating specific abstract ideas?
What was challenging about this activity?
What was most fun and why? !
Part II: Debriefing Viziphone
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What surprised you about the way the stories developed with the imagery?
!Do you think your team was successful at
communicating an entire story with visuals only? Why or why not?
“A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No silly hood upon her head. She said, “Hello, and do please note My lovely furry wolfskin coat.”