Visualization and Literacy

Literacy is the ability to encode and decode meaning using the culture’s

symbol systems

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Students must become literate with their culture’s symbol systems

Visualization can form the basis for creative and critical thinking.

Visual symbol systems offer unique ways of knowing.

Allows students to think broadly – allows for use of multiple intelligences.

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Fosters Memory and uses emotion

 

Visualization can be used for learning as students construct images to represent knowledge.

 

 

Visual literacy includes the ability to think, learn, and express oneself in terms of images.

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Visual literacy includes the ability to deconstruct images. It can be used to construct and represent

knowledge

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