Looking and Learning:
Teaching with Visuals across the Curriculum
Deandra Little, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Teaching Resource Center University of Virginia
Chad Berry Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty, Goode Professor of Appalachian Studies, Professor of History, Berea College
Dorothea Lange, February 1936
“Young people learn more than half of what they know from visual information, but few schools have an explicit curriculum to show students how to think critically about visual data.” Mary Alice White, Columbia Teacher’s College
Visual Literacy
Vision
Visuality
Seeing is interpreting light
Seeing is active
Seeing is subjective
Seeing is interpreting light
Seeing is active
Seeing is subjective
"Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind." William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890)
Visual Literacy
Vision
Visuality
Visual Literacy
Visual Thinking
Visual Communication
Visual Learning
Visual Literacy
Visual Thinking
Visual Communication
Visual Learning
Wordle, Tag clouds
Visual Teaching
2D and 3D representations
garb,1 garden, 39 garden-path,1 garden-pots,1 gardener,3 gardens,1 garment,1 garment--so,1 garniture,1 gates,1 gathered,1 gathering,2 gem-like,4 … Giovanni, 98 Giovanni's,17
Collaborations between Art Museums, Nursing & Medical Programs
Image as Metaphor
Facilitate understanding
Account for brain processing
Appear in an engaging context
Good
visualizations
Visual Literacy
Visual Thinking
Visual Composing
Visual Learning
Digital Story
Multimedia project
Photo essay
Illustrate/ map concept
Photo Field Research
Timeline
Data Visualization
Analyze Image Archive
Visual Composition
Create documentary
Visual Literacy
Visual Thinking
Visual Composing
Visual Learning
Vision
Visuality
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