This document discusses visual literacy in the classroom. It begins by defining visual literacy as the ability to understand and produce visual messages. It explains that visuals are processed faster than text and a large portion of the brain is dedicated to vision. The document then provides examples of how to incorporate visual literacy into teaching, such as using timelines, maps, photos from historical archives, and infographics. It also discusses using augmented reality, videos, graphic novels and more visual forms of storytelling. The goal is to engage multiple learning styles and help students better understand concepts through visual representations.

1. Diane Cordell
TCEA 2015
The Eyes Have It:
Visual Literacy in the Classroom
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4. The What

5. Visual Literacy
is the ability to understand and produce
visual messages
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6. Visual Literacy and Technology http://mboutwell.blogspot.com/2013/06/visual-literacy-and-technology.html

7. The Why

8. “Evidence is evidence whether
words, numbers, images, diagrams,
still or moving.
The information doesn’t care
what it is.”
Edward Tufte, father of data visualization
creative commons licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by Genista: http://flickr.com/photos/genista/3432987963

9. Piper Jaffray Survey: Top Social
Networking Sites for Teens, Fall 2014
http://www.piperjaffray.com/2col.aspx?id=3271

10. 1. 65 percent of the population are “visual learners.”
2. We process visuals 60,000 times faster than text.
3. 90% of information entering the brain is visual.
4. 40% of all nerve fibers connected to the brain are linked to the retina.
5. More of our neurons are dedicated to vision than the other four senses
combined.
Which statements are scientifically
correct?
Image Think
http://www.imagethink.net/blog-imagethink/

11. Answers:
1. True *According to Richard Felder; some estimates now put this figure
at 80%. Caveat: important to select the best modality for the information
2. Probably False *See posting by Darren Kuropatwa http://
adifference.blogspot.com/2012/07/60-000-times-faster-than-text-really.html)
3. Maybe
4. True
5. True
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12. Beijing resident Zou Yi set out to illustrate the pollution problem in the city by
taking the same photo, at the same time each day, and creating a mosaic of the
resulting images.
"Like a lot of people... "I forget [PM2.5] readings as soon as I read them. A picture
is worth a thousand words. If you see the same place, at the same time over a full
year, the quality of the air becomes perceptible immediately." -Zou Yi
http://boingboing.net/2014/11/21/beijings-smog-problem-illust.html

13. TEKS
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“Students rely on personal
observations and perceptions, which are developed through increasing
visual literacy
and sensitivity to surroundings, communities, memories, imaginings,
and life experiences, as sources for
thinking about, planning, and creating original artworks...
While exercising meaningful problem-solving skills, students
develop the lifelong ability to make informed judgments.”
-§117.202. Art, Middle School 1, Adopted 2013

14. The How

15. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g04637
Mulberry Street
“Mulberry Street is a principal thoroughfare in lower Manhattan in New York City. It is
heavily associated with Italian-American culture and history and is often considered the
heart of Manhattan's Little Italy. ” -Wikipedia

16. HistoryPin
https://www.historypin.org/

18. Interactive Science and Technology Timeline
http://static.itnsource.com/compilations/science+techvideotimeline

19. timetoast
http://www.timetoast.com/

20. Timeline
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/

21. Library of Congress
Child Labor and the Building of America
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/built/
Group of breaker boys http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/nclc.01137/

22. Library of Congress Primary Source Analysis Tool
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/primary-source-analysis-tool/

23. Library of Congress at the National Book Fair:
What’s My Title?
http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2012/10/a-summer-of-sharing/

24. Picturing America
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/

25. BBC: The History of the World
in 100 Objects
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

26. New York Times:
What’s going on in this picture?
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/whats-
going-on-in-this-picture/
New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/whats-going-on-in-this-picture-jan-5-2014/#more-153762
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What’s going on in this picture?
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What do you see that makes you say that?
•
What more can you find?

27. Pinterest
http://www.pinterest.com/

28. http://www.pinterest.com/
makemestpete/visual-literacy/
http://sciencenotebooking.blogspot.com/
2010/08/picture-of-day-activity.html

29. Symbaloo
https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/visualliteracy7

30. InstaGrok
http://www.instagrok.com/

31. Mappler
http://www.mappler.net/home/
Hurricane Sandy Gas Map
“VERTICES President Dr. Wansoo Im and high school
students...worked together to create a community
participatory map, where anyone could report on the
availability of gas at stations they were visiting.
The project earned praise from US Sect. of Energy,
Steven Chu: ‘Your innovative use of social media and
mapping technology to make live fuel supply data
streams available filled a significant community
information gap.’”

32. Obama’s inaugural address in Wordle
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by kostia: http://flickr.com/photos/kostia/3212478487
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/

33. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7815007@N07/8365490682/

34. http://www.garethhinds.com/beowulf.php http://www.todance.info/
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/babymouse/
homepage.htm
Graphic
Novels
http://www.scholastic.com/bone/

35. Infographics:
small data set and significant manual design
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by avitechwriter: http://flickr.com/photos/47222633@N05/15783348542

36. How Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon,
compares to North America
Astronomy:
the Size of Stuff
http://astronomycentral.co.uk/astronomy-the-
size-of-stuff/
With Saturn replaced with Earth, this is how
our planet would appear at the ring’s centre
Earth compared to the sun

37. Easel.ly
http://www.easel.ly/
Template from easel.ly site
Student-created infographic
Sarah Mulhern Gross via Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/infographics-students-reading-history-sarah-gross

38. Flowcharts
https://www.lucidchart.com/
“Chocolate iPhone Background” by Patrick Hoesly https://www.flickr.com/photos/zooboing/5495925514/

39. Created by Curtis Newbold
http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Infographic_CanIUseThatPicture_30x20.jpg

40. SOMETHING
UNFORGETTABLE
Be scared Be amazed Be creeped
out
FEELING
SUPERNATURAL?
With parallel
universes
With
dystopian
worlds
LOOK TO
THE FUTURE
With a unique
point of view
COMING OF AGE
With
quirks
With
laugh-out-
loud bits
With
cheekiness
WANT A
GOOD LAUGH?
With an ending
to shock you
With a
cult
STORIES THAT
ARE DIFFERENT
With a
little murder
With dark
secrets
LIKE A
GOOD MYSTERY?
That has
bite
SOMETHING
PARANORMAL?
WHAT SHOULD
I READ NEXT?
With
heartache
With a
fairytale
ending
SEARCHING
FOR A LOVE
STORY?
With a
twist
To make
you feel
To change
your point
of view
To make
you think
With great
heroines
That you can’t
put down
That is
award-winning
With tough
situations
With life
lessons
/welovekidsbooks
/welovekidsbooks
With a
centuries-old feud
With epic
battles
With
real-life action
CONSIDERING
AN ADVENTURE?
With spies
With an
alternate
reality
Random House
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/content/teachers/
whattoreadnext.pdf

41. Internet Archive Book Images
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/12/unlocking-the-imagery-
of-500-years-of-books/

42. http://www.photosforclass.com/

44. ThingLink: Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.thinglink.com/scene/315941456327999876

45. Padlet
http://padlet.com/
Comparing Whales and Fish (Primary)
http://linoit.com/users/tonyvincent/canvases/Whales%20and%20Fish
Geometry
Resources
http://
padlet.commynameispassy/
Geometry9

46. What is the question to this answer?
Discovery Educator Network
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/
2015/01/12/sos-the-question-is/
Padlet
http://padlet.com/wall/wzewlxct5hxh

47. Augmented Reality
Explore the heart in 4D with Daqri.
Move the iPad closer to see inside the heart.
AR Word Wall created with Aurasma
http://www.teachersusetech.com/2014/03/how-to-make-augmented-reality-word-wall.html?spref=pi
QR codes connect to Book Talks
done by 5th graders
http://www.bloglovin.com/viewer?blog=5510835&post=2597666849

48. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History:
Skin and Bones Mobile App
http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/bone-hall/

49. http://youtu.be/wmFP_3M0ObE?list=UUtXAIoT2XT9KrycmU7iJxqw
http://youtu.be/EBjbfbn-rWk
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/

50. YouTube
viewpure
http://viewpure.com/

51. Canva
https://www.canva.com/
Poster created with Canva
Promotional flyer created by Vicki Davis
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/canva-how-to/

52. MGMS Media Center Annual Report
Jennifer LaGarde
http://www.librarygirl.net/2011/06/its-bird-its-plan-its-our-annual-report.html

53. Boston University
Graduate Student Library Survey, 2012
http://www.bu.edu/library/about/library-assessment/graduate-student-library-survey-2012/

54. Visual notetaking, Sketchnoting,
Graphic Facilitation, Visual Scribing
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/10/22/learning-more-about-visual-
notetaking-authorized-drawing-in-class/

55. Other Ways
to See

56. The Touchable Yearbook
http://news.distractify.com/pinar/3d-printed-touchable-yearbook/

57. Accessible Graphics
Audio-tactile graphic
http://itd.athenpro.org/volume14/number1/gardner.html
Word description
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http://flickr.com/photos/akrabat/8859762674
Tactile copy
http://www.iwellsphere.com/aid-for-the-blind-to-facilitate-the-learning-
process-of-the-local-environment-by-the-use-of-tactile-map.html

58. Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials
DIAGRAM Center
http://diagramcenter.org/
http://diagramcenter.org/standards-and-practices/
accessible-image-sample-book.html

59. Be My Eyes
http://engt.co/1u9zSVU

60. creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by jimgrant: http://flickr.com/photos/jimgrant/63360654
“Primates are visual animals and we think best in pictorial or geometric terms.
Words are an evolutionary afterthought.” -Stephen Jay Gould

61. Zits
http://zitscomics.com/comics/december-27-2014/

62. Classic First Lines of Novels in Emojis: A Quiz
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/27/
classic_first_lines_of_novels_in_emojis_a_quiz.html

64. Screenshots from Facebook
1/17/15

65. creative commons licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by Gwyn Michael: http://flickr.com/photos/g_originals/361722654

66. Questions/Comments?
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by Tintin44 - Sylvain Masson: http://flickr.com/photos/sylvain_masson/4195880838

67. Einstein chalkboard generator http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

68. Diane Cordell
dmcordell@gmail.com