Presentación hecha en the Share Convention, Bs As, July 28th 2017

1. Digital tools to foster
visual literacy
and
to flip the classroom
Lic. Paula Ledesma, 2017

2. AGENDA
- What is visual literacy?
- Digital tools and strategies to foster visual literacy.
- Digital tools we can use to work with images.
- What does “Flipping the classroom” mean?
- Why and how can we flip the classroom?
- Other digital tools to use in and outside the
classroom.

3. The ability to recognize and understand
ideas conveyed through visible actions or
images (such as pictures)
First Known Use: 1971
(Merriam Webster)
What is visual literacy?

4. Visual literacy
…the “ability to
understand, interpret and
evaluate visual messages”
(Bristor & Drake, 1994. As quoted in Baker 2012)

5. In order to become literate in visual
language students need to develop visual
thinking skills.

6. How can we foster
visual thinking skills?

7. Step 1: Observation – People- Objects - Activities
Basic Photo Analysis Steps
Step 2: Inference –What can you infer? What makes you say that?
Step 3: Questions - What does this image bring to you mind?
What does it remind you of?
Visible Thinking Routines

8. http://popplet.com/app/#/4164902

9. Some Strategies
- Play “Detectives”
- Practice Regularly.
- Ask Open-Ended Questions.
- Notice Details.
- Build on Others’ Observations.
- Adapt These Questions for All Subjects.
- Expand Knowledge of the World.
- Introduce New Ideas.
(Gonchar, 2015)

10. “Seeing is believing”
Is it really?

11. Critical-thinking Questions
- Who created the image?
- What is the purpose of the image?
- Who is the audience for this message?
- What techniques were used to create it?

12. What digital tools can we use to put
these strategies into practice?

13. https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture

17. https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/photo-captions/photo-caption-092

19. Where Can We Find Copyright-free Images?
https://www.pexels.com
http://stokpic.com/
https://pixabay.com/

21. Do remember:
Always teach your students how to
acknowledge sources!

25. What digital tools can we use to
work with images?
- Digital tools to label images
- Digital tools to edit the images
- Digital tools to create posters.
- Other tools and ideas.

26. http://popplet.com/app/#/4164902

27. http://www.szoter. com

28. http://www.szoter.com

29. https://www.thinglink.com/

33. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/890385020928131074

34. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/855809852914532354

35. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/printing-press-30036.html

36. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Printing_Press/

40. http://funny.pho.to/es/

42. Other ideas to work
with visuals

43. http://ww3.safestyle-windows.co.uk/the-secret-door/

45. Cartoons in the classroom

46. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Quickly scan the cartoon. What do you notice first?
- What is the title or caption?
- Observe each part.
- Try to make sense of it.
Suggestions to analyse a Cartoon

47. WORDS VISUALS
Which words or phrases are
the most significant?
Which of the visuals are
symbols?
List adjectives that describe
the emotions portrayed.
What do they stand for?
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

48. Question the cartoon …
• Who drew this cartoon?
• When is it from?
• What was happening at the time in history it was
created?
• What is the message? List evidence from the
cartoon or your knowledge about the cartoonist
that led you to your conclusion.

49. Some cartoon indexes

50. http://www.cagle.com/

51. https://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm

52. https://nieonline.com/cftc/pdfs/20170424earth.pdf

53. http://www.gocomics.com/comics/popular

54. How about screenshots?

55. Choose parts of videos

56. ImpPnt
Key

57. Describe this image (video screen shot)

58. https://wordart.com/ - Use Tagul to keep record of the discussion

62. Now Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLntcTdOTkM

63. - What does “flipping the classroom
mean”?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWvc6qhTds

64. Why and how can we flip the
classroom?
- We can use blogs, wikis, class website or social networks:

65. https://www.sites.google.com/site/languagelevel2/

67. https://sites.google.com/a/scms.edu.ar/history-level-4/video-lessons/unit-1-the-unification-of-germany-
video-on-german-nationalism

68. https://sites.google.com/a/scms.edu.ar/history-level-4/

69. https://sites.google.com/a/scms.edu.ar/history-level-4/unit-1-the-unification-
of-germany/source-analysis---cartoon

70. To socialize content and comments
Social Network for Education

74. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZXjo5CL5K0

75. - Visual literacy and strategies.
- Digital tools we can use to work with images.
- Flipping the classroom
- Why and how can we flip the classroom?
- Digital tools to use in and outside the
classroom.
To Recap

76. But we need to be able to "read”,
interpret and evaluate those words in our
mind in order to understand what the
message really is - in order to be visually
literate.
"An image is worth a thousand words"...
Lic. Paula Ledesma- 2017

77. SOURCES:
Baker, F. (2012). Visual Literacy. In Media Literacy in the K–2 Classroom. http://www.iste.org/docs/excerpts/MEDLIT-
excerpt.pdf
Caminito-buenos-aires-argentina [Digital image]. (n.d.). Retrieved March, 2017, from https://pixabay.com/es/caminito-
buenos-aires-argentina-351167/
Gonchar, M. (2015, February 27). 10 Intriguing Photographs to Teach Close Reading and Visual Thinking Skills.
Retrieved February, 2017, from https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/10-intriguing-photographs-to-teach-
close-reading-and-visual-thinking-skills/comment-page-1/?_r=2
Jobadge. (2011). Wordle from Academic Integrity research project [Digital image]. Retrieved July, 2017, from
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24612276@N05/5902043591/
Ledesma, P. (2017). Clase 3: Multimedia resources. Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educación y Deportes de la Nación.
MediaCoreLearning. (2012, December). Flipping the Classroom: Explained. Retrieved July, 2017, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWvc6qhTds
Visual literacy. (n.d.). Retrieved July 27, 2017, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/visual literacy
Pixies. (n.d.). Lago-moreno-sur-argentino-paisaje [Digital image]. Retrieved March, 2017, from
https://pixabay.com/es/lago-moreno-sur-argentino-paisaje-767016
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (n.d.) Analyse a Cartoon. Retrieves in July 2017 from
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/cartoon.html

78. THANK YOU!
Lic. Paula Ledesma
https://ar.linkedin.com/in/paulaledesma
paulaledesma@Hotmail.com