Blog #5: CCSS for Visual Literacy

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After reading pages 136-140 in the NES book, I actually learned many things. The main thing I learned was how important Media Literacy is. The five key concepts in media literacy right at the beginning really stood out to me. I knew but didn't really think about how media communicates values (social, political, and so on). After reading this, I definitely agree that within the visuals of media there are a lot of of underlying values. For example, you see an ad for common core, obviously there are political figures that created the ad for social pleasure (or displeasure). I also learned that there are SO MANY persuasive appeals involved in visual literacy, including beauty appeal and peer approval. Like this section mentioned, "Common Sense Education contains an extensive list of digital citizenship resources and lesson plans that can help teachers learn and teach issues such as creative credit and copyright, information literacy, and other ethical and social issues involved in using and presenting media." (140).

When I think of visual literacy personally, I feel that it is very beneficial in the classroom. I first made sure that I knew what visual literacy was. The definition I'm choosing "is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text." (this is the wiki definition). Looking into my personal experiences from high school (which is what I want to teach), the visuals such as watching videos and pictures was so helpful for me. Words are words and say a lot but visuals go so far. Without them, we might go our entire lives thinking is one thing and then it turns out to be a total different thing. I had this happen to me in high school when I imagined Romeo and Juliet as adults while they were actually babies.


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