In week 5, we learned about the importance of visual literacy. If someone were to take away our visual literacy, it would be very hard to recognize many of our favorite things such as restaurants and sports teams. Photographs are also a very important part of learning. It is necessary for students to study photographs, for they help emphasize past events. Last week in class we saw many known photographs and then saw how each of them was edited in order to change the way people would view the photograph. It is important for students to study photographs because it increases their observational skills and promotes critical thinking.
As a teacher, it is important to have students study history through photographs. However, the students must be taught that these photographs are edited by people who have certain opinions about the world. Teachers must let students know that what you is not always what you get. Also, as children are growing up their outside appearance becomes very important to them. They look in magazines and see the beautiful movie stars, and wish to look like them. These students do not realize that these pictures have been significantly edited and that these people do not actually look like that in real life. It is important for teachers to convey this point to their students. Self-esteem is very important for success and it is a teacher's job to help his or her students transform into confident adults.
Below is an article that further explains visual literacy and how it relates to students.
Visual Literacy and the Classroom
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