Take a walk down the corridors of our classroom buildings, and you will observe that many of the lecture halls – once the domain of the dusty lectern and chalkboard – are now filled with the hum and ...

The University of Toledo and Toledo Museum of Art announced today a strengthened partnership that will advance visual literacy education. The visual literacy initiative was made possible, in part, ...

Yes, it has pictures. Yes, it is in the format of what you might call a “comic book—“ or wait, a “graphic novel.” Many students read graphic novels in their Literature or Language Composition classes.

“About 90 percent of the information people consume is visual,” said John Dony, director of the Campbell Institute. “Taking in that much visual data can lead us to have inattentional blindness – only ...

Visual Literacy proponent Lynell Burmark explains why the use of images is so important in the classroom and how it can help teachers meet the challenges of getting through the curriculum and engaging ...

Each year, students from a dozen local schools prepare submissions of their best and favorite work, testimonies of what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown over another academic year of studying ...

Looking, Thinking, and Learning is the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's Visual Literacy Program. This outreach program is offered to both public and private schools throughout Maine utilizing the ...

How safety and health professionals can scope out the big picture of workplace hazards and assess their risks through Visual Literacy practices. Here’s a hypothetical scenario: You are a safety and ...

1. Getting the picture : Snapshot history of visual images ; Visuals in instruction ; Visual literacy-What is it? Why is it important? ; Looking ahead -- 2. Here's looking at you : Verbal or visual? ; ...

Penny Wilhelm drifts through the high-ceilinged, airy rooms in the Leopold Museum, notebook in hand, working on an assignment for her art-history class, and musing as she goes. Penny Wilhelm drifts ...