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The Positive Impact of Visual Literacy and Museum Education Concepts Integrated Through Art Into Your Curriculum and Into the Classroom Cassia Kite EME5207Sum2010 University of Florida

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The Positive Impact of Visual Literacy and Museum Education Concepts

Integrated Through Art Into Your Curriculum and Into the

Classroom

Cassia KiteEME5207Sum2010

University of Florida

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To get your students to become experts on a subject, become confident public

speakers, educators and advocates with expertise on their chosen subjects while incorporating art into their lessons may not sound easy, so I would like to share

with you some of my recent findings.

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~Cassia Kite

This presentation is based on my research of visual and media literacy and how incorporating the use of visual materials into your lessons can positively influence the education of our youth today.

Museum education is one particular area I will discuss in reference to providing an example as to how you as an educator may consider incorporating a more inquiry-based teaching method into your classroom.

I will also provide information as to why I feel media literacy is important to education.

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Art in my lessons?!You may be asking yourself…

What does art have to do with my curriculum?

I don’t have a degree to teach art?

You want me to teach one more thing within my already ‘too full’ lesson plans?

My answer to all of these questions is YES!!!…and this is why…

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Visual Literacy

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“Visual literacy is the ability to decode visual symbols into meaning…to articulate to others your perception of what the image communicates and listen to others’ responses; to create visual statements” (Hobbs 1996, pgs 4-5).~R. HobbsHobbs, R. “Expanding the Concepts of Literacy” Published as “Expanding the Concepts of Literacy,” in Robert Kubey (ed), Media Literacy in the Information Age. New York: Transaction Press, 1996. Retrieved, 5/14/2006 1:54:19 PM from:http://interact.uoregan.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/hobbs/expanding.html

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“The most important aspect here for educators is to present material in a way which encourages sufficient retention of information to facilitate satisfactory learning in a culture that over recent decades has changed considerably” (Sankey 2002, p. 2).~M.D. Sankey

Sankey, M.D. 2002, Considering visual literacy when designing instruction. The Journal of Instructional Science and Technology, 5(2).

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“Students need to learn visually and teachers need to learn to teach visually” (Stokes 2002, p. 14).

~ Suzanne Stokes

Stokes, S. (2002). Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective. Retrieved February 8, 2010, from:http://online.education.ufl.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=46637

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“Just as ‘visual imagery clearly forcefully reinforces the basic message’ (Knupfer 1993, p.149), so colour, form and line will ensure attention to perception and the engagement of the ‘visual brain’, which in turn resonates with remembered experience and results in linguistic representation. Therefore the image will allow for a ‘sustained and adaptive learning environment necessary to increase learning potential’ (Heath 2000, p.123)” (Sankey 2002, p. 6).

~M.D. Sankey

Sankey, M.D. 2002, Considering visual literacy when designing instruction. The Journal of Instructional Science and Technology, 5(2).

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“Literacy is not simply understanding the grammatical rules of language. Instead, ‘it

refers to a connection between the recognition, production and retrieval of what

is constituted as information on the one hand, and its use or deployment as a communication practice on the other’

(Schirato & Yell 1996, p.208)” (Hobbs 1996, p. 7).

Hobbs, R. “Expanding the Concepts of Literacy” Published as “Expanding the Concepts of Literacy,” in Robert Kubey (ed), Media Literacy in the Information Age. New York: Transaction Press, 1996. Retrieved, 5/14/2006 1:54:19 PM from: http://interact.uoregan.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/hobbs/expanding.html

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Media Literacy

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Media literacy is defined as being “a repertoire of competences that enable people to analyze, evaluate and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. Education for media literacy often uses an inquiry-based pedagogic model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, hear, and read. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages” (Wikipedia, Media Literacy).

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“Media literacy is the ability to create personal meaning from the verbal and visual symbols we take in every day through television, radio, computers,

newspapers and magazines, and, of course, advertising. It’s the ability to choose and

select, the ability to challenge and question, the ability to be conscious about what’s going on around us (45)”(Pace 2007, pg.

2).

Pace, B. (2007). “A Glimpse of Media Literacy Education” UF Reserves.

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Educators that use visual literacy to communicate and build relationships between the student’s life experiences and learning in the classroom, will be able to engage and communicate with their students so that the students will understand and retain more from learning while gaining the self-confidence they need to reach the highest level of their learning experience.

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Using contemporary ways of incorporating the students’ present life experiences into their everyday education will help them understand the influence that visual and social media has on the way they look at the world.

“Art is essentially a communication. Art speaks in the language of its media; it uses techniques that are designed to inspire responses” (Way 2006, Chapter 2, pg. 5).

Way, C. 2006. Focus On Photography: A Curriculum Guide. The International School of Photography: Chapter 2 LINK, The Language of Photography; Chapter 3 LINK,Visual Literacy.

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Art, media literacy and visual literacy are all speaking the same

language but in different ways to the viewer. The messages are of many,

but the ways are through the eyes, the ears and the

hands.

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Museum Education

Norman Rockwell Image: 7/5/2010http://www.gse.harvard.edu/academics/masters/aie/images/news/rockwell_000.gif

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Museum education is “an inquiry-based method of discussing visual art that is common in museums and is highly recommended for classroom discussions as well. To work with this method, educators must be attuned to the group’s level and advance at its pace” (Hobbs 1996, p.9).

Hobbs, R. “Expanding the Concepts of Literacy” Published as “Expanding the Concepts of Literacy,” in Robert Kubey (ed), Media Literacy in the Information Age. New York: Transaction Press, 1996. Retrieved, 5/14/2006 1:54:19 PM from:http://interact.uoregan.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/hobbs/expanding.html

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Abigail Housen and The Visual Thinking Strategies

Abigail Housen is a cognitive psychologist, who developed five stages of Aesthetic Development. These five stages of development are found in the curriculum for the

Visual Thinking Strategies.

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The Visual Thinking StrategiesAlongside Housen’s five stages, the curriculum for The Visual Thinking Strategies was developed and the following is a list of suggestions that were found to be influential in both museum education and classroom settings: accessibility, captivation, expressive content, narrative, diversity, realism, media, subjects, sequences, series/themes, things to avoid, specific considerations for younger viewers and for viewers with some experience (Yenawine 2009, pgs. 3-9).

Yenawine, P. (2009). Jumpstart Visual Literacy: Thoughts on Image Selection. New York, NY Visual Understanding in Education. www.visualthinkingstrategies.org

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“Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a research-based teaching method that improves critical thinking and language skills through discussions of visual images. VTS encourages participation and self-confidence, especially among students who struggle. VTS is easy to learn and offers a proven strategy for educators to meet current learning objectives” (http://www.vtshome.org/).

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The Visual Thinking Strategies that Housen developed encourage the learner to connect to artwork, build confidence in their ability to communicate their understanding of a work of art, to be active in class and group discussions, to develop thinking, communication and writing skills and to get the learner to transfer these skills to other parts of their educational experience (VUE, www.vue,org).

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In terms of relating media literacy to the Visual Thinking Strategies, if you review the definition of media literacy, you see that just as medial literacy provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages…

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…the Visual Thinking Strategies improve critical thinking and language skills through discussions of visual images, encourages participation and self-confidence in the learner, and to develop thinking, communication and writing skills and to get the learner to transfer these skills to other parts of their educational experience.

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ArtsoniaOne way that I build confidence in my students is giving them the opportunity to exhibit their artwork online. Artsonia is known as being the largest online children’s art gallery and students can not only view their work, but family and friends can leave comments and purchase the image to be reproduced on items such as keychains, t-shirts and coffee mugs in support of the school art program.

My school’s Artsonia site is found when you search: Belleair Elementary School, Clearwater, FL

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The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has a museum education program that is exhibiting media literacy, visual literacy and the Visual Thinking Strategies in collaboration with one another.

Dali Philippe Halsman. Dali Double Moustache. Salvador Dalí.: Uploaded on November 23, 2009 by RaúlVillalónwww.flickr.com/photos/raulvillalon/4127870395/

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The Museum Curator of Education has developed a program named The Junior Docent Program that give students the opportunity to explore museum education.

Please click on this link to see Peter Tush, Curator of Education at the Dali Museum, narrate this video featuring the Junior Docent Summer Camp at the Dali.

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In conclusion, art education within all subjects where the media is

used or visual images are shown for the students to analyze and

interpret creates an education that harbors what is going on in the

world today and how the students can learn from their personal

experiences.

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Media literacy addresses cultural differences in the classroom, enables ways for all students to be involved in class discussions, gives the students encouragement to explore connections between images and text and how they relate to their life experiences and can help to develop multiliteracies that are needed to make sense of multimodal instructional materials (Pace 2007, pgs. 2-3).

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References:Hobbs, R. “Expanding the Concepts of Literacy” Published as “Expanding the

Concepts of Literacy,” in Robert Kubey (ed), Media Literacy in the Information Age. New York: Transaction Press, 1996. Retrieved, 5/14/2006 1:54:19 PM from:http://interact.uoregan.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/hobbs/expanding.html

Dali Philippe Halsman. Dali Double Moustache. Salvador Dalí.: Uploaded on November 23, 2009 by RaúlVillalón

www.flickr.com/photos/raulvillalon/4127870395/

Norman Rockwell Image: 7/5/2010http://www.gse.harvard.edu/academics/masters/aie/images/news/

rockwell_000.gif

Pace, B. (2007). “A Glimpse of Media Literacy Education” UF Reserves.

Sankey, M.D. 2002, Considering visual literacy when designing instruction. The Journal of Instructional Science and Technology, 5(2).

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Stokes, S. (2002). Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective. Retrieved February 8, 2010, from:

http://online.education.ufl.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=46637

VUE, www.vue,org

Way, C. 2006. Focus On Photography: A Curriculum Guide. The International School of Photography: Chapter 2 LINK, The Language of Photography; Chapter 3 LINK,Visual Literacy.

Wikipedia, Media Literacy

Yenawine, P. (2009). Jumpstart Visual Literacy: Thoughts on Image Selection. New York, NY Visual Understanding in Education. www.visualthinkingstrategies.org

You Tube: Junior Docent Program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEJlqEzsCg