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Chen, Zhe; Siegler, Robert S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study examined how toddlers gain insights from source video displays and use the insights to solve analogous problems. Two- to 2.5-year-olds viewed a source video illustrating a problem-solving strategy and then attempted to solve analogous problems. Older but not younger toddlers extracted the problem-solving strategy depicted in the video…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Young Children, Logical Thinking, Toddlers
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Felten, Peter – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
Living in an image-rich world does not mean students (or faculty and administrators) naturally possess sophisticated visual literacy skills, just as continually listening to an iPod does not teach a person to critically analyze or create music. Instead, "visual literacy involves the ability to understand, produce, and use culturally significant…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Visual Learning, Visual Perception, Critical Viewing
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Seels, Barbara; Dunn, Joanne – TechTrends, 1989
Discussion of how to teach students to use different environments for learning focuses on visual awareness and visual problem solving skills in a visual literacy walk. Highlights include observation techniques, multiple perspectives, categorizing and analyzing visual information, and generating multiple solutions for problem solving tasks. (six…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Learning Strategies, Naturalistic Observation, Perspective Taking
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Williams, Vicki S. – College & University Media Review, 1998
Investigates the supportive side of current technology in the visual process of learning and the issues instructional designers must address to utilize these capabilities and maximize their effects. Provides an overview of visual memory and discusses information processing and analogic reasoning, cognition and visual information processing, visual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Design Preferences, Information Processing, Information Technology
Pruisner, Peggy A. P. – 1995
There is a significant mismatch of student preparation for college-level reading tasks and literacy demands placed on our liberal arts college students today. Widely accepted schema theory suggests that teaching metacognition, or consciously thinking about how one thinks, is helpful. Once thinking processes are made transparent to the learner, he…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, College Preparation, College Students