Respecting Students and their Culture
PEW Research on devices owned in 2015
Last Generation to remember life before the Internet
List the communication tools you use personally every day to work and live?
List the communication tools you use for your school communication?
What are the overlaps and where might you need to rethink your communication strategy?
62% of US Adults get their news from a social media platform
Generational Communication Channels:
65+ = Phone, Facebook
35-65 = Email, Facebook, phone
20-35 = Text, Facebook, Email, phone
10-20 = SnapChat for close friends, Instagram for community, text for parents, facebook for public
Mapping Our World
Visual Literacy
Deconstructing Images Worksheet
Images to Deconstruct (select your own, or try one of these):
Elementary
High School
Image-Rich Resources to Explore
- 500px
- Google Art Project
- The Big Picture
- Flickr: Interesting
- In Focus
- The Flying Japanese Girl
- Dancers Among Us
- Eyewitness App
Tools and techniques to add text to images:
Additional Resources
- Image Analysis
- Deconstruct an Image or, How to Analyze an Advertisement (questions to help foster an awareness to analyzing images)
- Doodling & Math video here
- A Brouchure Without Words
- HSBC Airport Ads (the power of one word with an image)
- Scorcese on Visual Literacy
- Digital Images in the Mathematics Classroom
Resources for Finding Creative Commons Media:
Resources for Citing Creative Commons Work & adding text
The Complete Guide to
Designing Technology-Rich Units
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