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Scoop.it!
Do you wish your students could better understand and critique the images that saturate their waking life? That's the purpose of visual literacy (VL), to explicitly teach a collection of competencies 
Scoop.it!
The following blog post is part of a blog series called "Comments on the Common Core," written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis...
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Scoop.it!
Over the last few years in my seventh grade reading class, I’ve asked students to do more visual analysis and creation. This has nothing to do with the fact that my twin sister is a talented artist...
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Visual literacy is a key factor in developing critical thinking skills. Lots of great examples here.
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
December 11, 2013 4:12 PM
Hands on insights and examples for helping students analyze and create visuals. Such an important part of criticial thinking! |
This is what I was aiming at with my lesson plan for using primary source images. Here's a link to that lesson. You'd need to log in to see the Common Core Standards it addresses, as well as the graphic organizers and rubrics: http://aasl.jesandco.org/content/picturing-historyanalyzing-and-researching-primary-source-images