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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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Flood, James; Lapp, Diane; Wood, Karen – Reading Teacher, 1998
Describes the collaborative listening-viewing guide, a lesson framework for promoting students' visual literacy. Notes that an important feature of the guide is the use of flexible grouping, where students are encouraged to share what they see and recall, to contribute their personal experiences, and to build more elaborated constructions of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Critical Viewing, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Kirrane, Diane E. – Training and Development, 1992
An increasingly visual culture is affecting work and training. Achievement of visual literacy means acquiring competence in critical analysis of visual images and in communicating through visual media. (SK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication (Thought Transfer), Critical Viewing, Educational Technology
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Walker, Alice D., Comp. – 1993
Two bibliographies of publications from the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) are presented. The first covers the period from 1983 through 1989 and lists 261 publications from the IVLA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The second covers from 1990 through 1993 and lists 201 publications. The comprehensive…
Descriptors: Art Education, Bibliographies, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Development
Bazeli, Marilyn; Robinson, Rhonda – 1997
The inclusion of critical thinking and viewing skills across the curriculum is one way to approach the development of problem solving, which could help develop the kind of students prepared to accept the challenges they face. Using popular media in teaching such skills links critical thinking to life in a way that keeps critical thinking from…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Development
Braden, Roberts A., Ed.; And Others – 1987
Presentations at the International Visual Literacy Association conference are grouped under five topics, a prologue, and an epilogue: (1) Prologue--"Writing About Visual Literacy" (Roberts A. Braden); (2) Visible Language--four papers concerning picture books, the Macintosh and Laserwriter, the design of library signs, and visual literacy and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Critical Viewing
Baca, Judy Clark, Ed.; And Others – 1992
This book of readings consists of selected papers presented under five topics: (1) Research and Theory--18 papers including research on visual effects on attitude and cognition, students of different field dependence levels, modern and postmodern design on reader perceptions of news, effects of gray shades, short-term memory capacity differences,…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creativity