Students need to develop skills which include “reading pictures as you would read words in a story and developing meaning from those images by themselves, together in a sequence, or hyperlinked throughout the network” (p. 155).
“Flickr, one of the earliest photo-sharing websites, now boasts almost five billion images, with five to six thousand images added every minute…Facebook, the worlds largest social media platform receives over sixty million photograph uploads per week” (Cofino & Jakes, 2012, p. 153).
In addressing students exposure to a potential enormous volume of images in their daily life schools face three challenges so that students can access this large amount of information successfully. School must now:
(p. 154)
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org
allows people “to apply a license to his or her work that specifies how others may use it, with the specific intent of encouraging use and remixing” (p. 154).
Creative Commons lets users:
· source the original creator of work
· share with a large audience
· contribute to online communities
· become legitimate authors, photographers, and videographers
· understand the concept of intellectual property
Other critical aspects of visual literacy:
In addressing students exposure to a potential enormous volume of images in their daily life schools face three challenges so that students can access this large amount of information successfully. School must now:
- Provide the necessary technical infrastructure and policy to support the use of Internet images in school.
- Set appropriate expectations for students while searching online for images.
- Provide professional development for teachers on the use of online images to support student learning
(p. 154)
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org
allows people “to apply a license to his or her work that specifies how others may use it, with the specific intent of encouraging use and remixing” (p. 154).
Creative Commons lets users:
· source the original creator of work
· share with a large audience
· contribute to online communities
· become legitimate authors, photographers, and videographers
· understand the concept of intellectual property
Other critical aspects of visual literacy:
- analysis of info in advertisements
- analysis of charts, maps, graphs
- determining which medium is best of purpose and communication
- navigating structures such as menus and buttons to find, sort, and store info
- incorporating data-displays
- creating media-rich works