Becoming Visually Literate
There is a growing international consensus that the curriculum needs to emphasise:
• Broad knowledge, deep understanding and mastery of the tools of learning as a basis for
judgment and lifelong learning.
• Personal competence, responsibility and initiative in solving problems and managing projects.
• Interpersonal and intercultural understanding and the social skills of cooperation and
resolving conflict.
• The development of freedom of thought, judgment and imagination, and values which
underpin just, democratic and sustainable futures.
(Centre for Educational Research and Innovation 2004).
The contemporary world is constantly faced with visual literacy. The need to decode and encode different text types is becoming increasingly vital due to advances in technology. The learners of today need to become critically literate through the use of information texts to ensure that they are educated for their future. There is vital importance that Learning Managers are prepared to assure the students knowledge is based around information visualisation and the importance of visual communication to reinforce the knowledge and increase high order thinking (Bamford, 2003).
Visual literacy is about interpreting images of the past and present. The students need to be able to effectively communicate. Learning Managers need to assure that they are using visual tools to enforce the learning of information texts (Bamford, 2003). The Essential Learning’s do not have any particular outcomes that relate directly to visual literacy. If visual literacy is so important and there is a need for children to become literate in this area, then why are we not catering for it in the curriculum?
There is a growing international consensus that the curriculum needs to emphasise:
• Broad knowledge, deep understanding, high order thinking and mastery of the tools of
learning, as a basis for judgment and lifelong learning.
• Personal ability, responsibility and initiative in solving problems and managing tasks.
• Interpersonal and intercultural understanding and the social skills of cooperation and
resolving conflict.
• The development of freedom of thought, judgment and imagination.
• Broad knowledge, deep understanding and mastery of the tools of learning as a basis for
judgment and lifelong learning.
• Personal competence, responsibility and initiative in solving problems and managing projects.
• Interpersonal and intercultural understanding and the social skills of cooperation and
resolving conflict.
• The development of freedom of thought, judgment and imagination, and values which
underpin just, democratic and sustainable futures.
(Centre for Educational Research and Innovation 2004).
The contemporary world is constantly faced with visual literacy. The need to decode and encode different text types is becoming increasingly vital due to advances in technology. The learners of today need to become critically literate through the use of information texts to ensure that they are educated for their future. There is vital importance that Learning Managers are prepared to assure the students knowledge is based around information visualisation and the importance of visual communication to reinforce the knowledge and increase high order thinking (Bamford, 2003).
Visual literacy is about interpreting images of the past and present. The students need to be able to effectively communicate. Learning Managers need to assure that they are using visual tools to enforce the learning of information texts (Bamford, 2003). The Essential Learning’s do not have any particular outcomes that relate directly to visual literacy. If visual literacy is so important and there is a need for children to become literate in this area, then why are we not catering for it in the curriculum?
There is a growing international consensus that the curriculum needs to emphasise:
• Broad knowledge, deep understanding, high order thinking and mastery of the tools of
learning, as a basis for judgment and lifelong learning.
• Personal ability, responsibility and initiative in solving problems and managing tasks.
• Interpersonal and intercultural understanding and the social skills of cooperation and
resolving conflict.
• The development of freedom of thought, judgment and imagination.
