Blog 1: Visual Literacy

I thought this article was very interesting, and I plan to use visual literacy often in my kindergarten classroom.  The article Picture Perfect:  Teaching to Visual Literacy talks about how important it is to incorporate images in the classroom.  Learning is so much easier if the students can attach an image to a subject.   An image gives a student and easier visual to remember that subject.   For example, in my kindergarten classroom; I would use a constructivism method where I would incorporate images with learning the alphabet.  We would discuss at the carpet what the letter of the day is, and then write it on the Smartboard .  We would then brainstorm all the different words that start with this letter sound.  We would then write all those words on our Smartboard.  Finally, we would print out the list of words and go back to our desks and individually draw the letters.  We would put these all together and make our own individual Alphabet Book.  I would also like to use Voicethread and video in my classroom.  This would also be the constructivism method where I would have each of my students answer questions about themselves using video and Voicethread.  Lastly, I would use the constructivism method again and I would have my kindergarten classroom set up to where all my centers are set up with visual cards with images that visually explain what the student is supposed to be doing at that specific center.