This includes to think, learn, and express oneself in terms of images. Children learn to read pictures before they read words. Unfortunately, we often stop visual teaching once children can read. In this information age, it's important to continue to help people interpret the visual world around them. From books and television to billboards and animation, students are bombarded with visuals.
Visual literacy is a critical life skill.
This page will explore the challenge of visual literacy including from scanning and digital photography to tools, techniques, and visual resources. Just as we learn how to read text, we need to learn how to read pictures. Students need skills and strategies for reading, interpreting, using, applying, designing, composing, and creating visuals from line drawings to color photographs. The book called Sector 7 by David Wiesner is a great example of the power of illustrations. It was a wonderful book and I reviewed the basic story.