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- 1From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Earth's Rotation and Revolution. video or DVD. 15 min with tchr's, guide. Visual Learning Co. (visual learningco.com). 2006. $89.95. Gr 1-S-Brief segments explain day and night, the seasons, solstices and equinoxes,...
- 2From:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 106, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThree experiments showed that the pattern of interference of single-modality Stroop tests also exists cross-modally. Distractors and targets were either pictures or auditory words. In a naming task (Experiment 1), word...
- 3From:Multimedia & Internet@Schools (Vol. 11, Issue 2)A WlDELY marketed cure for the "Shhhh!" syndrome, which has plagued school libraries for decades, is claiming its market share across the country. Libraries are being relabeled "Information Centers." Librarians are...
- 4From:School Arts (Vol. 98, Issue 8)One of the most important lessons to teach children is how to be aware of their surroundings and especially their neighborhood. A program based out of New York City called Learning By Design:NY is offering services which...
- 5From:Multicultural Education (Vol. 23, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction My consideration of multicultural education concepts from the United States is involved primarily with their application to diversity issues in a pluralistic society. According to Gollnick and Chinn...
- 6From:Teaching History: A Journal of Methods (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHaving enjoyed (or endured) linguistic and cultural turns, we historians are now faced with a "pictorial turn." (1) As a number of commentators and practitioners in the rapidly burgeoning sub-discipline of "history and...
- 7From:Science Scope (Vol. 33, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedWhy do you think science books have diagrams in them?" I asked a sixth-grade student. She thought for a moment and earnestly replied, "Well, they are pretty and also show what they [texts] are talking about." In these...
- 8From:Knowledge Quest (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLEARNING TO LOOK AND LOOKING TO LEARN: VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES AT THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM WEB FEATURES * Using Documentary Photography Books with Reluctant Readers in the High School Library -- Patricia Sarles...
- 9From:Knowledge Quest (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe often find ourselves lamenting the loss of emergent readers to video games, television, and, most recently, the TTYL (talk/type to you later) culture of text messaging and Internet social networking. Trying to impart...
- 10From:Knowledge Quest (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLike a printed text, an architectural blueprint, a mathematical equation, or a musical score, a visual image is its own language. Visual literacy has three components: learning, thinking, and communicating (Randhawa and...
- 11From:International Journal of Computer Vision (Vol. 126, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars-sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds can be used as a supervisory signal for...
- 12From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 3, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground Tracking moving objects in space is important for the maintenance of spatiotemporal continuity in everyday visual tasks. In the laboratory, this ability is tested using the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT)...
- 13From:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTeaching bioethics with visual education tools, such as movies and comics, is a unique way of explaining the history and progress of human research and the art and science of medicine to high school students. For more...
- 14From:Literacy Learning: The Middle Years (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Australian Curriculum: English highlights the importance of using multi-modal texts in our classrooms to allow children to connect with and appreciate literature. Picture books provide students with opportunities to...
- 15From:American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (Vol. 86, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To evaluate the introduction of 10 Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) sessions into year 2 of a Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) program with the aim of assisting students in developing the skills and attitudes...
- 16From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2022 JUN 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Data detailed on myelodysplastic syndromes have been presented. According to news originating from the H. Lee Moffitt...
- 17From:International Journal of Instructional Media (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis study investigated the effects of visual display within a Computer-Based Learning (CBL) program that taught computer programming language through analogies. The first version of the lesson presented the analogy...
- 18From:Science and Children (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"A picture is worth a thousand words" has been referred to as a Chinese proverb, yet it's true beginnings may be from an advertising man, Fred R. Barnard, as a way to promote images in advertisements. Whether the phrase...
- 19From:Knowledge Quest (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFrom today's smallest MP3 players to huge billboards flashing over Times Square, we swim in an ocean of visual content. Little children recognize their favorite soft drink long before they can read the words "Coke" or...
- 20From:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Visual literacy in biology: a comparison of visual representations in textbooks and journal articles
Using course materials to promote visual literacy skills is an important aspect of undergraduate science education. A comparison study was undertaken to determine the composition of visual representations, specifically...