Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Visual Learning: An Accelerant

Notes from

Visual Learning: An Accelerant



Cheryl Lemke, Metiri Group





Tuesday, 6/26/2007, 2:00pm–3:00pm;



The Metiri Group



Need to teach students "GRAMMAR" of visuals



Research says if you have text and sounds, adding visuals can bump scores up to 30 percent



working memory can hold seven items at once; eg students who read but don'r remember worked so hard on decoding using all parts of working memory; want to build automaticity of decoding so don't have to



reason for engagement is content wont get in working memory if not attentive of material



1) Informed viewers an consumers; marketers are after their 4.7B in spending money

book at a glance

parc xerox



NY times class models



Digital manipulation

TIME darkened oj photo to look darker

be informed viewers



important studnets understand not real, body image issues



2) knowledgeable designers, compsers and producers communicators of visuals'



Thinkquest 2007 children of war,



TQ 2004  Character education



Repurposing - ipod,



Justthink on youtube souls/soles



SFETT.net



People process video 4 ways, physically, emotially, gestalt, cognitively

we need to understand how producers of video try to influence us



digital story telling





Active Learning



Concept mapping visual map research shows if students in pairs with visual, will develop shema in mind and



Visual Design

Need standards for Visual Design





3 Expressive and inventive thinkers



visual problem solver



interactive sound lab



Foudations

set of 21st cent skills

guidelines fo ronline research

teaming and ollab

ecommunication opporutinties

rugrics for media products

critical thinking curriclum

concept mapping





















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