Visual Literacy

Science 8/13/09

National Educational Technology Standards

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Guidelines for Best Practice

1. Images must specifically illustrate the targeted content and match the

instructional goal.

2. Ensure that students have a meaningful interaction with images

or video.

Earth at Night

The Skill of Picture Reading

Questioning vs Telling

3. Make sure the images and videos supplement your good instruction,

not replace it.

The Meniscus

Science Safety

4. Model appropriate use and attribution of copyrighted digital

images and video.

Creative Commons

Best Practices

Engage

Student Generated Images

Collect Visual Data

• Virtual Collections

• Life Cycles

• Long-term Events

• Before/During/After pictures of experiments

• Observe

• Infer

• Questions

Analysis of Images

Artwork Thanks• Image: 'autism neuroimaging study' by Ian Ruotsala at

www.flickr.com/photos/46813052@/189736044

• Image: 'underneath a star' by jaeWALK at www.flickr.com/photos/31874781@N00/3133924813

• Image: 'Daphnies' by ComputerHotline at www.flickr.com/photos/36519414@N00/1570948622

• Daphnia pulex Heart Beat by acociles at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDwYghgb2k

• Earth at Night Credit: C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC), NOAA/NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive at http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081005.html

Artwork Thanks!

• Image: 'Future is Bright !' by rAmmoRRison www.flickr.com/photos/73662475@N00/2651957971

• http://morrisonlabs.com/meniscus.htm

• Image: 'breakaway' by Sean Wallis at www.flickr.com/photos/32868342@N00/1467357780

• Image: 'hook' by EssjayNZ at www.flickr.com/photos/19387816@N00/2809206955

• www.kaboodle.com/channel/gadgets/post/watch-your-plants-grow

Work Cited• Bell, Randy, Gess-Newsome Julie, and Luft,

Julie: Technology in the Secondary Science Classroom: NSTA Press, 2008

• Dean Shareski at MICDS Summer Institute on 7/13/09. Presentation: “Let’s Get Visual”

• National Educational Technology Standards from ISTE at: http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS