This presentation includes a brief introduction to theory, strategies, and examples of visualization and visual pedagogies that promote collaborative learning, followed by conversation and activities designed to illustrate the meaning-making; deeper levels of learning; and dynamic interaction elicited within visual approaches to the curriculum. Presented at the Sloan-C 14th Annual International Conference on Online Learning November 7th, 2008

1. Visualization, Meaning Making and Collaboration Nicola Martinez and Ken Charuk Center for Distance Learning SUNY Empire State College Sloan-C 14 th Annual International Conference on Online Learning November 7th, 2008

3. visual attention There is a growing consensus that the computation of the "internal visual world" does not occur in a purely automatic and obligatory way. Humans process part of the available visual information with priority dependent either on the current task (intention) or the structure of the stimulation Schneider, Werner X., and Sabine Maasen. Mechanisms of Visual Attention : A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective . East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press, 1998.

4. Visual Intelligence What happens when you see is not a mindless process of stimulus and response, as behaviorists thought for much of the 20th century, but a sophisticated process of construction whose intricacies we are now beginning to understand. What you see is, invariably, what your visual intelligence constructs. Just as scientists intelligently construct useful theories based on experimental evidence, so your visual system intelligently constructs useful visual worlds based on images at the eyes . Hoffman, Donald D. Visual Intelligence : How We Create What We See . 1st Norton pbk. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

16. The Future of Being Human

17. The Future of Being Human

18. FOBH Heads Up Display

19. Some Interesting Links George Covington – To Photograph is to See http://www.kodak.com/takePictures/covington/introduction.shtml Motivated Seeing? Motivation Affects Visual Perception http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2006/10/motivated_seeing_motivation_af.php Visual Pathways http://www.reseauvision.ca/vision-AN/glos-subject-en.html Eye and Gaze http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/glossary2004/eyegaze.htm How we make our visual world appear to be constant http://dericbownds.net/2006/11/how-we-make-our-visual-world-appear-to_27.html The Brain as an Information Processing System http://www.willamette.edu/~gorr/classes/cs449/brain.html