How can visual literacy and the use of Internet impact the teaching and learning process in the classroom? What are some visual-thinking strategies you would like to use in your classroom? What role do you want the Internet play in your classroom?
One of the greatest technological impacts on both Further and Higher education management and academic activities has been the Worldwide Web and Web-related technologies which are capable of delivering and supporting vast amounts of visual data. A keyword search for learning and teaching resources in almost any subject area on the Web is likely to return numerous examples containing visual content ranging widely in format, quality and quantity. Visual images are increasingly appearing in learning and teaching resources, delivered across a range of media in a variety of formats: digitally in Web-based materials and multimedia as well as in other formats such as print and transparencies. Technology has developed very quickly to where it is now possible to support visual and multimedia formats on wireless devices, often delivered at anytime to any place. Therefore, visual literacy and the use of Internet impacts teaching and learning process for both teacher and students.
It is clear that children are able to draw upon a range of experiences and competencies in order to represent meaning with a visual image. The interaction of these elements is an important part of the process. Visual form and design are also influenced by the techniques available with the new technology used in the classroom. As a technology, teacher it is essential to provide children with clear direction to help them understand the ways in which these elements interacted with each other and contributed to a particular message. Visual thinking includes a number of ways of making students thinking visible to themselves, to their peers, and to their teacher so they get more engaged by it when technology integrated. Consequently, using the Internet and other technology components enables the interaction of the elements to be developed in ways not easily available to the learners in the use of other media by developing their externalize thoughts through visual literacy and technology.
Visual –Thinking Strategies that I could use in my classroom to enrich and enhance students learning. The learning strategies are design to help deepen students understanding in all content area, faster thinking skills and that would greatly motivate their learning.
- Students will explore visible thinking techniques that will allow the learners to speak, write and/or draw their ideas and thoughts to deepen their understanding of a particular topic.
- PowerPoint presentations to enhance lecture learning about Christopher Columbus and his voyage to America.
- Students will be mapping the journey from Spain to America by using images and diagrams that plot the course the three ships took to draw information, take notes while learning map skills.
- Charts to graph how long it took to make the trip, by counting the months and days this allows students to visualize time or varying proportions.
- Student-created WebPages and interactive movies (using iMovie, Windows, Moviemaker) to demonstrate their understanding of the topic.
In response to the role that the Internet plays in my classroom is focused around technology should be positive, perhaps reflective in nature and show quality of the working experience. Students should be able to realize and extend their visual ideas through experimentation and change; to work as practitioners producing high quality outcomes for a legitimate audience and view themselves as working with a technology which is valued in their culture. They were optimistic and unquestioning of the technology’s capabilities to produce what they wanted. Students will learn to work with confidence and perseverance while demonstrating their work using other visual media. It is important to teach the students not to set limitations of the technology, but focus on ways in which they feel that the final product is “real”, contrasting it with their efforts in other visual literacy areas.
In addition to knowing the appropriate use of technology to handle and communicate information, a critical understanding of its implications for the individual, the immediate context and the wider society is needed. Technological literacy enables teachers to “theories technology and avoid becoming trapped into coping with ill-considered and unwise implementation” The ability to read technology in educational and cultural terms would support teachers in evaluating both the daily classroom practices and the wider contexts in which educational technology policies are devised.
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