I was glad to read this article because it seems like a good resource for history teachers. It would be a different experience for students to see pictures, but to also be able to hover their mouse over the picture to read the captions. I am still a little confused to whether the institutions are the only ones that can upload to the Commons and add captions, or if the public can also contribute to the photo if they know something about it. If the audience can comment on these “private” photos this would be a great way for students to interact with pictures of the past without just reading a boring textbook. The only problem I see with this is that the website is blocked in many districts and the students would only be able to do this assignment from home, and not every student has a computer or the internet at home.
- “The Commons of Flickr” This article really focused on the reasons we need to dedicate ourselves, as effective educators, to teaching students through new technologies. “"Please listen, class." "Pay attention, now." "Follow along with me, I'm on page three." "Will someone read for us?" - students tell us with their body language, their passive disinterest, or their distracting behavior that they are struggling to be successful in our text-driven classrooms.” (Myatt, p.187) I totally agree with this statement because students are not supposed to learn the way students learned in the past. The world is changing, so technology should be changing in the classroom as well. Teachers can’t be afraid to experiment with new technology because it is the present and will only increase in the future. Students need this visual stimulation in order to be active in their learning. If they are just sitting there listening to lectures and writing down notes they are not really learning anything, and in most cases they will just memorize what they are given, spit it back up for a test, and then forget it. Visual Literacy will paint pictures in the students’ minds and have a more lasting effect on them, especially if THEY are the ones creating it.
- “Connecting the Dots: The Unexplored Promise of Visual Literacy in American Classrooms”
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