teaching with visual media

Teaching with Visual Media

The TENN TLCThe Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center

November 2, 2010

Taimi OlsenKelly EllenburgDorothy Stulberg

Visual Reflection Activity

• Write for a few minutes about what you have learned as a teacher or researcher this past year.

• Thinking only generally about what you wrote, select an image that is evocative of your thoughts.

• Reflect on the image and record thoughts about the image itself, its details, and about the connection to your paragraph.

• Report to your small group about your image and your thoughts.

Workshop Outline

– Reflection Activity

• Session1– The Visual Process and

Implications for Visual Literacy

– Visual Analysis Activity

• Session 2– Using Visuals to Target

Learning Outcomes– Exploration of Visual

Resources Activity

• Session 3– How Students Create

Visually– Q &A

The Visual Process and Implications for Visual Literacy

Session 1

Instructions

• Listen as if you are students in a class.

• After a few slides, I will stop and ask you to take visual notes using the handout.

Beyond course content objectives, what learning outcomes do you have for your students?

• Promote learning and long-term memory.

• Promote complexity of thinking.• Enhance likelihood of transfer of

knowledge.

Engagement leading to deep learning is the goal.

Why pay attention to visual materials in

teaching?

Pathways to Learning

VISUAL perceptions may be our oldest system of knowing about the world and is integrated with auditory, motion, and emotional information.

Pause and take visual notes on the previous slides

Vision process:what are the implications for learning?

What are my priorities?

What’s my immediate emotional reaction? My motivation?

Our Brains

• Parts of the Brain– Frontal Lobe– Occipital Lobe– Brainstemetc.

• Environmental Impacts – Changes in the brain

etc.

“Again and again…creative minds explain their creative thought generation in terms of visual imagery and their reliance on mental images as springboards for extending their understanding well beyond the parameters of verbal language.”

Ann BarryBoston College

Visual Literacy Activity

Visual literacy is “the ability to find meaning in imagery. It involves a set of skills ranging from simple identification (naming what one sees) to complex interpretation on contextual, metaphoric and philosophical levels.

Many aspects of cognition are called upon, such as personal association, questioning, speculating, analyzing, fact-finding, and categorizing. Objective understanding is the premise of much of this literacy, but subjective and affective aspects of knowing are equally important."

Philip Yenawine, (1997) “Thoughts on Visual Literacy”

Using Visuals

Session 2

http://prezi.com/jr-yju4iwrfs/visual-media/

Exploration Activity

• Take ten minutes to explore links and find four that interest you.

• In the next ten minutes, talk with a partner at your table about these four links, discussing how you might use the link in a course.

• We will take a few minutes to hear about some of your discussions.

• Optional: use the course planning sheet in your folder to record ideas for using visuals to meet learning objectives.

Slides and Resources at http://tenntlc.utk.edu/visual_media.html

How Students Create Visually

Session 3

Q and A

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