Visual Literacy Ideas

One of the 21st century literacies is visual literacy. I have been doing some research for a training session I am preparing for and I thought I would share a couple of my "finds".

Browse the great visual literacy activities using photographs from the Oakland Museum of California. Take these great ideas and combine them with more primary sources from the National Archives or the American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress. Target critical thinking and inference with these tools to help student thinking differently about visuals.

Another tool that I found provides a roadmap for helping with visualization of data. The periodic table for visualization methods is an eye-opening tool for helping students analyze and communicate understanding of content and concepts. Teachers, we can really think deeply about the "graphic organizers" we are using and this tool helps us select an appropriate tool. What I like best is that each tool identifies if the thinking process as convergent or divergent!