Images
Using image in e-learning
There are multiple purposes for images in the classroom are most likely be used either in the classroom or online in a variety of ways. Teachers can present learning materials to the student with the purpose of engaging thinking (knowledge, understanding, analysis, evaluation); influencing feelings, or supporting skills development.
Visual literacy
“Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skills for students” (Thibault &Walbery, n.d.).
Throughout this week’s exploration on image based technologies and many supporting readings, it is apparent that visual literacy skills and understandings are fundamental to student’s success in the 21st century. As educators our role is to ensure that we embed visual literacy into our practice. Visual literacy is simply the ability to see, to understand, and ultimately to think, create and communicate graphically. (Thibault & Walbert, n.d.).
Visually literate students will help develop student’ ability to:
1. Look at an image carefully and critically
2. Gather the information and ideas contained in an image
3. Identification of the subject and elements
4. Understand what they see
5. Comprehend visual relationships
6. Make sense of the images that they are exposed daily
7. Build critical thinking skills and build visual literacy
(Thibault & Walbert, n.d.)
Pedagogy of teaching with Images
Regularly in the classroom, images are used without purpose or meaning and merely for colour and decoration. Although it is extremely important to engage students with aesthetically pleasing recourses, it is also important to remember when using images in the classroom they are not being used unnecessarily. The multiple purposes for image use online allow Learning Managers to present learning materials to the students with the endeavour to engage thinking (knowledge, understanding, analysis, and evaluation), ultimately influencing the student’s feelings and supporting their skills development.
Images can also be used in the classroom to create a learning dialogue between the student and the material. This interactivity with images online involves exploration, challenge and assessment (responses involving knowledge or understanding), or skills training. A great tool for this is Voice Thread, which supports interactivity with images and material online.
There are many effective ways that images can be used in the classroom setting and I believe that they are a fantastic tool for learning. As a future 21st century educator I endeavour to embed the use if images within my future practice. Below is a list of ways images can be effectively used in the classroom.
· To illustrate concepts to show examples
· To inspire discussion of a topic
· To enforce and extend language and common terms
· To stimulate students’ writing
· To encourage work and foster collaborations
· To encourage students to become independent learners
· To encourage critical thinking skill
· To enhance visual communication skills
· To help identify emotions and mood
· To document an event and analyse practice
· To assess students’’ knowledge, understanding and observational skills
· As a prompt to get students to research all aspects of a topic
(Practical ways to use digital images in teaching and learning, 2010)
To help me analyze and critically reflect on podcasts I decided to complete a PMI, which I have inserted below.
Plus | Minus | Interesting |
Evokes emotion Great hook for a lesson Encourages conversation on any topic Enables there to be depth and visual representation Find out student interests Support critical thinking Encourages differing perspectives | Needs to be age appropriate Could hit some raw nerves or be confronting to some students Image must be used in context -Students could get off track from the real meaning you are after -Would need to ensure it is not going to impact on a particular culture from where some of your students may be from | Interesting to hear student perspectives See what students take photos of The way we use images in everyday life To hear the range of students comments You could ask students to bring in photos The way we use images in everyday life |
Pedagogical implications
· Images should be used judiciously –not just for filling up spaces
· Images can be used to engage thinking , influence feelings and enhance skill development
“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind”
Alphonse Bertillon
What this quote means to me as a future educator?
On reflection of this quote I think that as a future educator, it is fundamental to be conscious of the fact that each individual student in your class come with their own set of knowledge, ideas and beliefs (virtual backpack). Therefore, when using images in the classroom it is important to appropriately choose images that all students can understand and ensure the use of images is in context of the learning experience.
Digital video
Digital Video in Education
According to a researsch study by Kearney & Shuck (2006), digital video has a range of common usages in schools. These include:
- · Communication of messages, ideas or information
- · Observation enhancing students observations of phenomena, experiments or performance
- · Analysis enhancing students observations of experiments or performances
- · Reflection tool to support students reflections on their own learning
Outcomes of student video production include meta-cognitive, higher order thinking, communication, presentation, literacy, organisational, teamwork and movie making skill development.
Commonly digital videos are used in classroom presentation however, for a wider audience, or to encourage evaluation and feedback opportunities, video is shared online. Some common tools include YouTube and TeacherTube.
The model below gives you a summary of the range of student learning outcomes when video is well-designed in the classroom.
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