1. Visual Literacy Taylor Slaughter Taylor Slaugter

2. What is Visual Literacy? • Visual Literacy is being able to understand what is presented in either a video or an image. Taylor Slaugter

3. Why is Visual Literacy So Important? • They a multitude of purposes for visuals in the classroom setting. • They help motivate the students to learn • Direct attention to specific concepts • Makes it more accessible for students to return to the video or image and go over what was taught. Taylor Slaugter

4. Why do we need visuals, and is there any value if added to learning? • Having visuals in instructions helps attract the attention of students. • Easier to understand what the teacher is talking. • Not as boring as listening to the teacher lecture. • There is value in adding it to the learning process. • It is easier for the student to pay attention. Taylor Slaugter

5. How are visuals designed to influence learning? • It catching the students attention. • Students might see a picture of something on the board when they come into class and wonder what is going on in the picture and they will have to wait and find out, so they will stay attentive all through class just to see what the picture is about. Taylor Slaugter

6. Two approaches to teach visual literacy. • Decode • Which means to read visuals proficiently by practicing visual analysis skills. • Encode • Which means to write visuals that help express themselves and communicate with others. Taylor Slaugter

7. The 6 types of visuals. • Pictures • Could be a picture that is shown before a lesson and the students get to talk about and try to figure out what is happening. • Drawings • Students could use a software that allows them to draw a picture that is assigned to them. • Charts • Could show how many blue tiles and white tiles are in the classroom and the students could compare the totals. • Graphs • Could be a graph that the class made that compares what types of animals that the students have at home. • Posters • Could be a poster of students showing how to be nice and share in the classroom. • Cartoons • Students could draw cartoons to represent their family. Taylor Slaugter

8. When would presentations be appropriate in the class? • The teacher could use PowerPoint presentation when teaching about different species of animals and want a page for each animal and then a page for a discription. Taylor Slaugter

9. Qualities of an Essential Question. • Qualities of an Essential Question are: • Answers that cannot be found have to be constructed • Show old knowledge or ideas in a new perspective • Have multiple answers • Create more questions • They make you discover and uncover rather than just going over a topic • Make you use higher-order thinking. • Students have to go beyond what is given to find their answer. Taylor Slaugter

10. THE END!! Taylor Slaugter