Two-time Caldecott Honor winner (Free Fall, Sector 7) and three-time Caldecott Medal winner (Tuesday, The Three Pigs, Flotsam), David Wiesner is regarded as one of the most remarkable creators of visual storytelling living today. Wiesner is well known for his innovative and unique subject matter and his sophisticated painting-like illustrations…

In this interview, Dave Krupke, retired speech-language pathologist in the Davenport, Iowa public schools, describes "See The Sound/Visual Phonics," whose shortened name is "Visual Phonics," and its use with struggling readers and students with communication disabilities. What distinguishes See The Sound/Visual Phonics from…

Focus-on-form English teaching methods are designed to facilitate second-language learners' noticing of target language input, where "noticing" is an acquisitional prerequisite for the comprehension, processing, and eventual integration of new grammatical knowledge. While primarily designed for teaching hearing second-language learners, many…

Reviews the history, expected project outcomes, and publications which have been developed by the Visual Education Curriculum Project, designed to identify problems and needs in visual education in Australian primary and secondary schools. (CS)

Ways are suggested in which visually appealing information, such as art and artifacts, newsprint, and everyday products, can stimulate interest in, and study of, economics as a vital social science. (CJ)

A media package for group instruction in computer operations for deaf students is described. The package includes slides, captions stored on a filmstrip, and an illustrated workbook. The approach is explained to provide high flexibility at relatively low cost.

The purpose of this article is to trace the antecedents, origins, and the evolution of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Topics include the nature of technology, the emergence of educational technology, early theoretical conceptions, visual education, the Department of Visual Instruction, communications and…

Project SEE (Specific Education of the Eye), a three-year old ESEA Title III funded program, is stated to be designed to train kindergarten and Grade 1 children in perceptual motor skills by developing visual perception through a series of sequenced visual exercises which the child analyzes, elucidates on, relates to, and replicates. The…

Twelve integration techniques, such as tracing shapes on paper, are described and suggestions for five activities (including materials needed, activity directions, implications, positioning, cautions, and adaptations) are provided. (For related material, see EJ 216 140 and EJ 216 239.) (PHR)

From a cognitive point of view, students construct new knowledge frameworks by relating new information to prior knowledge. Visual constructions help students reestablish unity of knowledge from "bits" of information received in linear note taking. Discusses the benefits of note taking and review, and summarizes visual note-taking…

Discusses how a teacher was challenged to outgrow previously held beliefs about children and broaden her verbocentric curricular assumptions and experiences by a student for whom art stabilized and gave shape to his thoughts. Notes that the student helped bring real meaning to the idea that learning is "multimodal" in nature. (RS)

Alternative genres such as graphic novels, manga, and anime are employed to build on students' multiple literacies. It is observed that use of visual stories allowed students to discuss how the authors conveyed mood and tone through images.

In the United States, the likelihood that an art teacher may teach a child with autism in an inclusive classroom is high, since one out of every 166 children in the country is diagnosed with autism. Federal law mandates that every child has the right to a free and appropriate education. Some children with autism have exceptional artistic abilities…

The central and peripheral visual fields are structurally segregated in the brain and are differentiated by their anatomical and functional characteristics. While the central field appears well suited for tasks such as visual search, the periphery is optimized for rapid processing over broad regions. People vary in their abilities to make use of…

This paper discusses the use of digital cameras in K-12 education. Examples are provided of the integration of the digital camera and visual images into: reading and writing; science, social studies, and mathematics; projects; scientific experiments; desktop publishing; visual arts; data analysis; computer literacy; classroom atmosphere; and…