Visual Literacy

In my Visual Literacy module, I watched a video on how the ACME program allowed for students in an animation class to get feedback from real-life animators on their projects. I would've loved to receive feedback from someone within the profession in which I was studying would critique something I've done. It really creates an authentic learning experience for the students by making it applicable to our real-world experiences. I hope to be able to integrate some sort of real-world application into my curriculum whether it be through having actual historians come in to talk with the students and tell them how they go about their work and how my students can think and learn like historians. The other thing that I loved about the visual literacy video was the technology. The way the teacher had videoconferencing set up for the animators to talk with all the students was very innovative. I hope to also use technology in my classroom to integrate literacy into my curriculum. The teacher said the students perform better whenever they know that the real-life animators will be reviewing their work. It would serve as a great performance assessment in the balanced assessment format of gauging a student's success within a unit.