1. DOMINIC PATES & FARIHA AFGAN
THE
OF PICTURES
HOW IMAGES CAN ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING, AND INSPIRE AND ENGAGE STUDENTS
Image by Bronson Abbott (Flickr, CC-BY-SA)
2. HOW HAVE YOU USED IMAGES IN YOUR TEACHING?
Image by Circe Mídia (Flickr, CC-BY-
ND)
8. An active process of...
Filtering Selecting Organising
Integration
LEARNING IS…
9. Students use prior knowledge with mental
representation created from visual and auditory
information
Mental
representatio
n
Long term
memory
LONG TERM MEMORY
15. How students learn
Telling a story through
pictures
Notions of parenting
ACTIVITY
Bit.ly/PowerOfPictures
16. What one thing will you do
differently as a result of this
session?
REFLECTION
17. Credits
Funnel by Alv Jørgen Bovolden from the Noun Project
Select by Guilherme Simoes from the Noun Project
Organization by Gregor Črešnar from the Noun Project
Integration by Gregor Črešnar from the Noun Project
https://www.flickr.com/photos/queensucanada/12437667135/
Learner constructs knowledge in new situation, leading to meaningful learning
This meaningful experience is stored in our long term memory
Therefore activity surrounding use of images and words is important
Activity 3: [show of hands]
Never heard of Creative Commons
Heard of but don’t know much about it
User of Creative Commons
Non-profit, est. 2001
Provides open copyright licences
Creators can use for sharing works whilst specifying how they should be used
Consumers can also use CC-licenced works with fewer restrictions than ‘all rights reserved’
Compliment to traditional copyright rather than a replacement for it
Licence elements
Attribution: you must be credited for any use of the work, similar to academic referencing
ShareAlike: any new creations must be licenced under the same terms
NonCommercial: others can do anything with your work but make money directly from it
NoDerivatives: when used, the work must not be changed
Licences are instances or combinations of these elements
Another spectrum of usage
From least freedom to most freedom
With all licences, original creator must be credited
Three-layer design
Legal Code layer: the language and text formats that lawyers know and love
Commons Deed layer: user-friendly interface to the Legal Code
Machine Readable layer: CC Rights Expression Language (CC REL), for software, search engines, etc to understand