The article I found is titled "Increasing Visual Literacy Skills With Digital Imagery" by Dr. Lance Wilhelm and I found this article on the journal.com. The article talks about how the use of images is becoming more popular in schools and they are being adapted to teacher's lesson plans. In order for students to become more versitile in today's society they must have visual literacy skills. A good example for teachers to increase visual literacy is digital cameras. Digital cameras are becoming cheaper and easier for younger children to understand. The article brings up the point that in most colleges now, students in the college of education are reqiured to take courses that deal with technology and they deal a lot with digital camers due to their growth. With the use of digital cameras, teachers can transfer photos onto powerpoint or Word.
Teachers can also take digital photos of notes and if a student misses classes they will have the notes in a picture and teachers won't have to make copies and copies of papers. Another good way classrooms will be able to use digital imagery is when students have projects they can bring back photos of science experiements and field trips and transfer them to a poster board or however they want to display it.
Digital camera technology changes all the time and I think further research on this type of technology would be very useful.
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I agree with you when you say that further reasearch is nessisary when using digital photography and cameras. The technology changes everyday. The hard part would be for a classroom to invest in digital cameras becuase something is different everyday with the digital world. It would be real hard and expensive to keep up with technology.
I certainly agree with a lot of the points brought up in this post! Digital imagery is another great piece of technology that is being taught to students due to its advanced way of helping them learn. It is great that the ways of using and developing digital imagery is being taught because it is becoming crucial to most communication and production skills needed to fulfill certain jobs. Good post!
I agree with your article and post and in some ways it is very similar to mine. My article also talks about the uses of the digital camera in the classroom. I agree with all of the uses you pointed out and would like to throw some others out there too. How great is it to increase a child’s imagination by taking a picture of something a asking a child to expand on it. Or asking elementary school kids to show a sad face and use an actual picture of a classmate to talk about what it means to be scared/sad/or happy. There are so many ways and with the click of a button these pictures can be put on a computer or even a classroom blog for parents to see!
Carolyn Sullivan
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