Our Visual World

2. Our Visual World Estimated number of TV homes: 109.6 million Average time kids spend watching TV each day: 4 Hours -Parents spend 38.5 minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children Children spend more time watching television than in any other activity except sleep. - Huston and Wright, University of Kansas.  "Television and Socialization of Young Children." 54% of kids have a TV in their bedroom. – Ibid -An average child sees 30,000 TV commercials in a year. 44% of kids say they watch something different when they're alone than with their parents (25% choose MTV)66% of children (ages 10 to 16) surveyed say that their peers are influenced by TV shows 62% say that sex on TV shows and movies influences kids to have sex when they are too young 66% of children (ages 10 to 16) surveyed say that their peers are influenced by TV shows By age 18, a U.S. youth will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence. - American Psychiatric Association The average youth living in the U.S. watches television 25 hours a week and plays computer games an additional seven hours. - National Institute on Media and the Family, 1998 study Media violence may cause aggressive and antisocial behavior, desensitize viewers to future violence and increase perceptions that they are living "in a mean and dangerous world." - American Academy of Pediatrics Witnessing repeated violent acts can lead to desensitization and a lack of empathy for human suffering Television alone is responsible for 10% of youth violence. - Leonard Eron, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Television reaches children at a younger age and for more time than any other socializing institution except the family. - Ibid Research has shown that "mindless" television or video games may idle and impoverish the development of the pre-frontal cortex, or that portion of the brain that is responsible for planning, organizing and sequencing behavior for self-control, moral judgment and attention. - American Academy of Pediatrics - Understanding TV's effects on the developing brain, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.  http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/facts/mediafacts.asp

3. Seeing is Believing On a piece of paper write: • The names of the Simpson characters. • What are the five freedoms listed in the First Amendment?

4. Seeing is Remembering

5. Brain Bandwidth

6. Brain Bandwidth • Eye

7. Brain Bandwidth • Ear 30,000

8. Brain Bandwidth • 60,000 faster! Brain can process images 60,000 times faster than words.

9. Words processed sequentially

10. Images are Processed Randomly

11. Precision of Images over Words

13. Picture this!

15. Precision of Images • Draw a cat. • Now draw an ibex.

17. Where does the eye go? .

18. Brain Bandwidth

19. Brain Bandwidth

22. More Pictures from Matthew Brady • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

23. The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

24. Bring it to them! http://remember.org/then-and-now/tn02.html

25. Compelling reasons…. • Break down classroom walls • Turn boredom into engagement

26. Research Shows: • The presence of pictures relevant to the text will assist learning.

27. Research Shows: • Pictures can help learners to understand what they read and also to remember it.

28. Research Shows: • Pictures may assist learners with poor verbal skills more than those with good verbal skills. (EL Students?)

29. Research Shows: • Pictures can sometimes be used as substitutes for words or as producers of non-verbal information.

30. Research Shows: • Learners may fail to make full use of complex illustrations.

31. Research Shows: • The presence of pictures in the text will not aid the learning of the text which is not illustrated.

32. “I didn’t think.. Until I saw” Ansel Adams

33. Activity--Wikis • http://russelltech.pbwiki.com • Password: TRMS