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This practical talk will look at the way electronic media can help us place the image at the centre of our classroom practice, enabling learners to visualize or “picture experience” in new and exciting ways. In so doing, we will explore the notion of how best to develop visual literacy[1] in the language class – guiding students towards actively interpreting and creating images rather than just passively describing them.
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MEXTESOL, MORELIA, OCTOBER 2011
The Digital ImageDeveloping Visual Literacy in ELT
Ben Goldstein
The Digital Image
Images are becoming a primary means of information presentation in digital global media.
Digital technologies have emancipated and democratized the image. This opens up new possibilities for teachers and learners.
Overview
1 Images in language teaching
Reassessing their role / Criteria for image selection
2 The Digital Age
Multi-modality / New ways of reading
3 Expressing yourself through image
Two student projects
4 Tools, Sites… and Tasks
1 Images in Language Teaching
Reassessing their role
Image as starting point and centerpiece...
Mental imagery (the mind’s eye)
Image types (aerial shots, close-ups, shadows, etc.)
Self-image
Criteria for image selection
1 Openness to multiple readings
2 Opportunity for personalization
3 Visual impact
4 Element of surprise
5 Cultural associations
2 The Digital Age
New image types (e.g. Infographics, wordclouds)
New ways of reading image & text (Filtering, Hyperlinks, etc.)
New ways of communicating through image (Twitter, What’s App, etc.)
New scope for image creation (tools, software, etc.)
New sources and destinations for images & texts (ScoopIt)
3 Expressing yourself through image
Visual Tributes
Two projects:
1 Future requests for computers
2 How is your computer personal?
The Digital Image
With digital media, people can often bypass official institutions to produce their own media, knowledge, produtcts, services and texts... to compete with the professionals or to critique mainstream sources. (James Paul Gee)
Fecha
It’s fitting that our wedding photos reflect the devices we connected through while falling in love! Thank you Steve!
Two projects
from Latitude: http://latd.com/
1 CHILDREN’S FUTURE REQUESTS FOR COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
4 Tools, sites… and tasks
some tools
Voice Thread (digital stories)
Glogster
Blurb Mobile
Keek (video diary/status updates)
Fotobabble (talking photos)
Shape collage
Fotofunia
Photoshop touch... Coming soon!
some sites
Conclusions
We need to embrace “the visual” in our materials and classroom practice.
We need to encourage learners to create, interpret and interact with images actively.
We need to prioritize tasks over tools. Is technology enhancing the task?
We need to consider ways of engaging learners with images both in and outside the classroom.
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