critical visual literacy

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Taking it to the authorship stage by making comics was clearly valuable.  Their written reflections demonstrated the creativity and insight they used in making the comics.  What on the surface ...

Mitch Nobis - 2013-04-30 07:58

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The student reflections suggest tremendous growth.  Though few of them claim joy at being assigned Thoreau’s essay in the first place, they clearly put thought into the visual rhetoric of their comics. ...

Mitch Nobis - 2013-04-30 07:58

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Students need critical awareness of visual rhetoric for a variety of reasons, but one big reason is the increase of time spent in digital environments where visual elements mix readily with ...

Mitch Nobis - 2013-04-30 07:57

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  A range of students’ comics are linked here , with two also posted below.  Their comics vary widely in artistic quality, but that is fine.  The elements we practiced don’t depend on ...

Mitch Nobis - 2013-04-30 07:57

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  The old and oft-maligned genre of comics offers us one possible answer and a unique way to include visual literacy without having to wildly alter the classroom curriculum.  Here’s how it worked for me. ...

Mitch Nobis - 2013-04-30 07:57

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A Closer Look Shows a Different Crisis   The media insists that the American educational system is in a state of crisis, but this is exaggerated at best and a total ...

Mitch Nobis - 2013-04-30 07:14

No, this is not a photo of the 1st Louisiana Native Guard proving that African-Americans freely chose to fight for the Confederacy. But even viewers who are sophisticated about reading images in ...

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl - 2011-03-26 19:20

What does it mean to be “visually” literate? How can we encourage students to be more deliberate and careful in how they look at the ...

Danielle Nicole DeVoss - 2012-11-13 15:37