Visual literacy and the direction it is headed definitely excites me! I immediately think of VR and traversing through the world right in the classroom. I see apps like Aurasma that help bring art to life. However, reading the article, Visual Literacy, highlights the importance of educating our students on visual literacy. The article was a great reminder to teach our students to critically and thoughtfully question and analyze the things they see. As we put our students into the World of technology, we also need to teach them that sometimes, things aren’t real or require more deciphering. A great example of this was the photo of the shark about to bite a man hanging from a helicopter ladder. The truth of this photo came out days after it had been virally spread. It was photoshopped together, and tracing it back to its rightful owner was nearly impossible. It was an intentional lesson about believing what we see, copyright, and manipulating reality (Gray, 2012). An augmented reality program that has really caught my interested and I have hopes to integrate it this year is Aurasma. It is, “one of the most popular and cutting-edge technologies being used in schools around the world today. Enabling teachers to connect digital content such as video to images in books and classroom walls, Aurasma offers a uniquely inventive, fun, and holistic way of engaging students of all ages (Aursma.com).” Aurasma has been known to make learning more transformative and engaging. It is taking simple to complicated concepts from math, social studies, language arts, and other subjects and turning them into enticing creations (Brown, 2015). Augmented reality seems futuristic even though it has been here for a few years now. The likelihood of it going away is unlikely, which gives me even more of a reason to become familiar with it now.
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Ashley Allman
10/20/2017 11:23:46 pm
Wow Aurasma is pretty cool!!! How does it work with non vocabulary words, meaning how does it work with concepts such as addition? Or history? I may have to get this to play around with it. It seems like something that is out of this world!! I can however see it working well with visual students and heaping them understand a concepts or vocabulary word better. Thanks for sharing this!
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