digital tools for visual literacy

Concerned about integrating visual literacy into K-12 classrooms? Need a review of concepts, tools, techniques, and strategies which can support visual literacy development in your classroom? As an important aspect of the CCSS, teachers are expected to encourage visual and digital literacy with their students.
Welcome to our informal discussion on digital tools to promote visual literacy. In the "College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards" sections of CCSS for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, the need for visual literacy is apparent. These standards challenge educators to provide students with "anchor" skill sets in which students learn to demonstrate independence; build strong content knowledge across curricular areas; adapt their communication for a varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline; comprehend as well as critique; value evidence; use technology and digital media strategically and capably; come to understand other perspectives and cultures. For more information, see ISBE's anchor standards handout, "Realizing Illinois."
The goal of this workshop is to provide a a quick overview of visual, media, and digital literacy for K-20 teaching, and then introduce a few simple examples of technology tools appropriate for your classrooms. We will review some examples and discuss possibilities. You will review and critique tools you select, and blog your reactions for all to share here on this weebly website.
Welcome to our informal discussion on digital tools to promote visual literacy. In the "College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards" sections of CCSS for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, the need for visual literacy is apparent. These standards challenge educators to provide students with "anchor" skill sets in which students learn to demonstrate independence; build strong content knowledge across curricular areas; adapt their communication for a varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline; comprehend as well as critique; value evidence; use technology and digital media strategically and capably; come to understand other perspectives and cultures. For more information, see ISBE's anchor standards handout, "Realizing Illinois."
The goal of this workshop is to provide a a quick overview of visual, media, and digital literacy for K-20 teaching, and then introduce a few simple examples of technology tools appropriate for your classrooms. We will review some examples and discuss possibilities. You will review and critique tools you select, and blog your reactions for all to share here on this weebly website.