According to research by 3M Corporation, humans process visuals 66,000 times faster than text!According to enGauge 21st C. Skills:
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning."
Are you a visual learner?? Most people are and kids even more so than adults! Students need lots of visuals to help them learn/remember.
Check out the examples of visual literacy on my digital camera page...
- Idioms of the Day
- Gettysburg
- Math Problem Pictures
Here are some great sources of visuals online:
AEA Online Resources - clipart.com, AP Multimedia, and Unitedstreaming all have digital images that you and your students can use in your content area to teach and to learn/remember.
Apple Learning Interchange 2007 - iPhoto ideas by grade and content area
Pics4Learning - great ideas and lesson plans for content areas to use digital images
What to do with a digital camera - more ideas and lesson plans specific to content area also Using a digital camera in the classroom
Digital cameras make it so easy to capture images and add them to your classroom content - and if you hand cameras to students - stand back and watch the amazing results!
iPhoto is Apple's application for importing, organizing and doing some simple editing of digitial images. With this program, you can then make calendars, books, slideshows (with music), cards and more.
How can you use more digital images to enhance your teaching and your students' learning? Post a comment...
28 comments:
Judy,
I have lots of ideas and even a camera. Now I need to practice.
Looking forward to learning more about digital photography . . . my favorite class in high school was mass media and working in the dark room!
pics 4 learning looks like a great source
Mary & I are planing to do a video about our school.
I now have 2 blogs. The first is for this class and the second is one I'm working on for my parents and students:
camvocal
Cindy
Many articles have been written about the American schools not having school as many hours as foreign education systems.
If learning is so much faster with multimedia, maybe more preperation time could be given to teachers to have time to prepare good multimedia lessons. No doubt there will be a lot of lessons coming out online or on c d 's to assist this market.
I enjoyed using the digital camera. There were several sources that will be very helpful
The ibook is easy to use. Kay gave me some instructions and I produced a book in no time.
I think if kids see themselves in pictures they sit up and take notice. I want to also use it as a showcase for student work. Perhaps, also, they can become the teacher and creatae slide shows to teach others in the class a concept.
I have taken pictures of place setting and will be able to show the kids that some places use "things" other than paper! Also could use in housing . . . the possibilities are endless!
The software is exciting and easy. There are programs out there that do more, but I was amazed at what it could do. All of the hidden effects and ways to clear up bad pictures was impressive. I believe iPhoto allows you to focus on teaching the lesson, not the software.
Now, to use it with learning objectives in mind, and not just introduce it once and let the students have free reign will be tough.
I can see a whole series of before and after pictures to show safe and accepted shop practices. Right now the CAM track blog is offering a fun extension of the tutorial. I can't wait to add video clips.
Great class yesterday. The software is simple to use.
We are planning to take pictures at the Math Olympiad in Maryville the 15th. We can tell others about the 500 students from 4 different states taking a two hour test but the pictures will put that into perspective.
Denny and I are planning to use technology to show off the science wing.
Having a place on the web for students to leave their homework and pick up missed assignments would alleviate a lot of headaches, especially for those of us who believe if cleanliness is next to Godliness, he never would have invented southern Iowa mud, Holstein cows with irritable bowel syndrome, or fried chicken eaten with fingers.
This would be great for composition. They could incorporate pictures with their papers.
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This would be great for composition. They could incorporate pictures with their papers.
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This would be great for composition. They could incorporate pictures with their papers.
efn
I was actually pretty proud of myself in the camera lesson. Maybe there is hope. I'm even able to use the cursor.
Performing classes are actually easier to think of ideas using digital images, because we are always wanting to publicize what we are doing. Educationally, another idea might be actual pictures of correct and incorrect vowel formation using students as models.
The past couple of chapters of Span. I, I've had them make little vocabulary posters that we hang at the front of the room to help them remember vocab words. They each get a word and have to represent what it means visually without writing the English definition. Some people choose to draw theirs, but many use digital images taken off of clipart.com to illustrate their word. The kids really seem to like it.
I am trying to use the info but as always tech. has thrown me a curve with the pic thing
Pics4learning looks like something that I can get some good ideas for using technology.
I want to find some visuals to help with student understanding of linear graphs. This will be especially helpful for less gifted students.
There are lots of ways to use a digital camera in the art room. But I don't always want the final product digital. We need an easily accessible color printer.
Some great ideas from all of you - you are thinking "digitally" - and all of these ideas will be engaging for your students. Am looking forward to seeing your lessons and students' projects including lots of digital images!
In science classes, particularly biology, their are so many things and concepts that you can't "see" unless you can actually see them, models of them, pictures of examples of them, etc. Therefore any images you can find or produce will be helpful. Taking 35mm photos or even drawings can be expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it is obvious that digital images that can be saved, manipulated or ditched have many possibilities.
I was looking at one of the lessons on using objects and comparing sizes. It would be a way of using proportion to determine the actual size of an object that is not easily measured. Using pictures of buildings would be a good source of geometric figures.
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