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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Visual literacy"”.
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Visual literacy in anatomy
… and embryology) involve significant amounts of visual identification. Understanding the spatial relationship and visual representations of anatomical structures forms the basis for much of anatomy education, particularly in laboratory courses. Students in these courses frequently struggle with …
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Visual literacy for the 1990's
Visual aesthetics -- Whole-brain thinking -- Pictorial imaging -- Art and science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.
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Visual literacy for the 1990's
Visual aesthetics -- Whole-brain thinking -- Pictorial imaging -- Art and science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.
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Assessing Visual Literacy: A Review and An Attempt
… of evidence substantiating the current state of visual literacy knowledge and skills of instructional design professionals and the continuing call for visual literacy assessment research. The project has contributed two manuscripts that examine the existing visual literacy assessment research and …
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Picture thinking: the development of visual literacy in young children
This research examines how visual literacy develops in young children by looking at the ways they use the modes of talk and drawing to make sense of complex multimodal picturebooks. By examining what it means to be visually literate, it is possible to broaden our understanding of childhood literacy …
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Teaching Visual Literacy and Document Design in First-Year Composition
… to communicate quickly and effectively through visuals such as signs and pictures, it is not surprising that graphical messages now permeate our technology-oriented culture. Magazines, television, and computers integrate text and graphics to convey information. As teachers of writing, we need to …
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Media Transformations: Framing, Multimodality and Visual Literacy in Contemporary Media Spaces
… to change over time. The incorporation of the visual into social semiotics marks a key moment in the development of multimodal theory. Visual literacy is discussed in relation to changes in modes of representation and a critique of this concept is provided. This is conducted in relation to how …
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Looking again : a critical reappraisal of visual literacy in the curriculum
In this study I examine the concept of visual literacy and the way it is incorporated into, and interpreted by Curriculum 2005, from the perspective of the educational illustrator. In order to come to a better understanding of the notion of visual literacy, I explore the extensive body of …
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Enhancing Visual Literacy with Technology in Standards-Based Secondary Visual Arts Curriculum
… technology into a standards-based, high school visual arts curriculum to enhance visual literacy. Existing research in this area is limited. Cognitive studies have tried to quantify connections between spatial relationships, drawing, and information processing. Abundant literature exists on the …
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Visual literacy and the integration of parametric modeling in the problem-based curriculum
… study investigated the application of visual literacy skills in the form of parametric modeling software in relation to traditional forms of sketching. The study included two groups of high school technical design students. The control and experimental groups involved in the study …
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Picturebooks as Visual Literacy: The Influence of Illustrations on Second-Graders' Comprehension of Narrative Text
This study poses the following research question: "How does change in text type as text contains more illustrations and fewer words influence second-graders' comprehension of narrative text?" Eleven second-graders read three texts each and completed a series of oral reading comprehension tasks. The …
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A Qualitative Study of Three Secondary Art Teachers' Conceptualizations of Visual Literacy as Manifested Through Their Teaching With Electronic Technologies
… the usefulness to teachers of the term visual literacy as it is posited in academic discourse and questions the value of predetermined educational ends that accompany that visual literacy scholarly discourse.
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A qualitative study of three secondary art teachers' conceptualization of visual literacy as manifested through their teaching with electronic technologies
… three technologically competent, secondary-level visual arts teachers' insights into the notion of visual literacy in the information age, and how this notion manifests through these teachers' teaching praxis with art and technology in their classroom and school environments. The study …
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"Tinseltown as teacher" : a case study of historical feature films as interpretive sources of history within an educational context
… films on historical perception and the need for visual literacy, the majority of the discussion has failed to offer concrete suggestions either for assessing the influence of such films or for developing visual literacy. This study, using a small-scale qualitative approach, examines the influence …
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"You give me a name that I cannot say": an investigation into the intelligibility of the criterial rules in the theoretical component of CAPS Grade 10-12 visual art
… and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) for Visual Arts in the Further Education and Training Phase has yet to be conducted. This study teases out the relationship between knowledge and skills that remains under-theorised in the expression of visual literacy in the curriculum. Developed in …
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Masculinities and Femininities: Romance and Authenticity on American Dating Apps
… the way image-based technologies allow for a new visual literacy. This study investigates how the experience of using dating applications (apps) related to Giddens’s notion of romance and explored the way visual literacy was constructed through discourses of authenticity. How do young Americans …
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Image analysis for translating English multimodal texts into Greek : a multimodal semiotics approach to translation training in a Greek higher education context
… on the trainees' perception of the role of visual literacy in translation, the nature of their verbal and visual associations and activities effective for developing this role. Visual literacy, semiotics, and translation theories provided the conceptual framework for this multimodal …
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Literacy Revolution: How the New Tools of Communication Change the Stories We Tell
… a unique turning point in human history. Verbal literacy, or the ability to read and write, is slowly being replaced by visual literacy as a primary tool for human communication. As a culture, we tend to underestimate the creative ferment of our increasingly visual world. The linear, structured …
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The graduate-mentor project in visual arts education: Mentoring within the Western Australian curriculum framework: A study of the impact of mentoring on beginning-teachers' perception of their success in visual literacy education during the first year
… Australian tertiary graduates who enter the visual arts education profession are often well acquainted with the theoretical underpinnings of the Western Australian Curriculum Framework. This knowledge base, in combination with their own visual arts training, typically enables them to enter …
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Information-seeking behaviour of undergraduate visual communication and design students at the Durban University of Technology
… needs and retrieval strategies of undergraduate visual communication and design students. Data were collected from 23 third-year Graphic Design students, fifteen (15) Interior Design students, and fifteen (15) photography students in the Faculty of Arts and Design. Wilson’s (1981) information …
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