Hello, There are many tools available to today’s teacher that provides them with opportunities to make an impact on the teaching and learning process within the classroom. This week we discussed visual literacy. Visual literacy is quite simply using pictures to convey something versus using words. It could be a poster or visual aid a teacher may adorn her room with or it could be the way a math problem is portrayed.The idea is to get a message across within the picture with little to no text. Some examples follow: In a library or maybe even a classroom reading nook, one might find something like this: This image displays a young girl demonstrating what we all understand as being quiet, or quite simply "shhh." This makes a clear statement without ever needing to add text stating to be quiet. Here is another example: This is one we see used universally. While it may be more readily used with the word STOP emblazoned upon it, this simple
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