1. Visual Literacy

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3. http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/06/18/Stratford_Public_School_wideweb__470x319,2.jpg
4. Students watch 22 000 hours of television before they finish high school. They spend only 12 500 hours in the classroom.
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5. 6. Palm pilot
7. Light beer
8. Dr Pepper
9. The King of Pop
10. How many did you get correct?
How did you know?
11. The nature of literacy is characterized by the theoretical lens that is used to examine it (Ruddell, Ruddell, & Singer, 1994).
12. 13. Visual images are fast becoming the most predominant form of communication.Visual genres and mediums now dominate communication; photographs, television, film, video, the internet, cartoons, posters, t-shirts, comics, multi media presentations and computer simulations. Sankey, 2002.
14. Reading and Viewing:
Readers and viewers make connections between their prior knowledge and the subject matter of
the text
15. Young people learn more than half of what they know from visual information, but few schools have an explicit curriculum to show students how to think critically about visual data.Jenkin, R. (2008) Visual literacy, Teaching and Learning, 30 July/August, pp.4-8
16. Visually vulnerable
Victims of Text
17. Still Images

Still images: are texts that are still (that is not moving or animated in anyway)

18. Illustrations 19. Paintings 20. Cartoon or comics 21. Collage 22. Photographs