What it means to be literate (MCLB #3)

BEING VISUALLY LITERATE MATTERS

"Images can be very powerful tools for communicating messages." - Allison Reid 

Here is a picture that speaks A THOUSAND words:

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Life As A MILLENNIAL..

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My FAVORITE TV show of the 90s spoken in emojis: 

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5 Ways to Cultivate Visual Literacy in the classroom

1. Present photos without captions
2. Teach graphic design alongside poetry
3. Stop using visual aids
1. LET VISUAL MATERIAL STAND ALONE
4. Stop labeling students as "visual learners"
1. WE ARE ALL VISUAL LEARNERS 
5. Practice representing ideas without words 
1. NOT ALL SERIOUS IDEAS REQUIRE WORDS

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Promote Universal Design For Learning!!

• MAKE LEARNING ACCESSIBLE TO ALL STUDENTS
• FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENT NOT THE STUDENT
• REDUCE LEARNING BARRIERS THROUGH BETTER DESIGN
• Retrieved from: Rose, D. H., Hasselbring, T. S., Stahl, S., & Zabala, J. (2005). Assistive technology and universal design for learning: Two sides of the same coin. Handbook of special education technology research and practice, 507-518.



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There is more than one way to learn...

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DEFINE Multimodal:

"Multimodal literacy focuses on the design of discourse by investigating the contributions of specific semiotic resources, (e.g. language, gesture, images) co-deployed across various modalities (e.g. visual, aural, somatic), as well as their interaction and integration in constructing a coherent multimodal text (such as advertisements, posters, news report, websites, films)."

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MULTIMODAL literacy trumps all! 

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