UDL and Integrating Visual Literacy across the Curriculum

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Part 1: UDL

The Principles ofUniversal Design for Learning

Multiple Modes of Representation

Multiple Modes of Engagement

Multiple Modes of Expression

Some Elements of Visual Literacy

color

Scale

Part 2: visual elements

Symbolic

Shape

juxtaposition

&

Color

http://www.zachholmquist.com/decoding-emotion-and-coding-to-color

www.sallygentieuwelch.com/pages/Color.html

Juxtaposition & Scale

symbolism

Shape

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You are the artistPart 3: the assignment

Illustrator's Note:

My illustration was supposed to represent sorrow and grief. I used colors to describe how I felt about the war. How I felt about the war is kind of like how I feel when people are making fun of me, it hurts. It does not hurt nearly as much as what the Jews were put through. But I want to make it clear to people that even though others are different don’t pick on them.

Not Me

Lonely, cold. Nazi is part of me. I

am a stranger tomyself. I am a

T R

A I

T O

R Who knows why? Not me. Not me.

NOT ME.I feel

empty and heartless. Destroying my

motherland. This person really isn’t me.

My heart is dying.

Frozen, shattered.

No.

This is not me. I am gone…

Holocaust Unit

The Assignment

30 minutes

• Select the media

• Reflect on your emotional reaction

• Experiment with medium

• Create a visual representation

• Create an artist’s note

• Share (optional)

"All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few of us are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.”

- Peter M. Leschak

Part 4: Implications for teaching & learning

Part 2: visual literacy

Visual Literacy means being able to:

• Interpret, understand and appreciate the meaning of visual messages

• Communicate more effectively by applying the basic principals and concepts of visual design

• Produce visual messages using computers and other technologies

• Use visual thinking to conceptualize solutions to problems

Humans process visuals 60,000 times faster than text

Illustrated materials can boost:

• Using color enhances learning and improves retention by more than 75%

• long term learning and application of that learning up to 89%

• recall up to 42%

Using color can increase motivation & particpation by up to 80%

Color visuals increase willingness to read by up to 80%

image accessed from: http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/WWII/WWII.html

Atomic blast

http://katebrigham.com/thesis/demo_interface.htm

Science

http://graphjam.com/

Math

Social Studies/History

Google EarthTools:

Wonder of MSWord

Digital Storytelling

What now?