"Teaching must capitalize on students' preferred literacy behaviors online. For example, since we know that they are speed-reading and skimming online, that they prefer clicks to scrolling and that they will rarely read below the "fold" (Nielsen, 2002), we can teach quick ways to assess and credibility."Reaction:
I feel that if students make sure they follow the seven lenses and are taught correctly, then they will get a clear visual of what the are reading or "skimming." These could be ways to prevent them from not reading the material. I feel that the seven power lenses allows students to fully understand what they're seeing in photos. Students not only fully understand the photo with the lenses but they understand the meaning to the photos as well. For example Lens #1 is a close observation, it's "learning to look without drawing inferences is a powerful observation tool." This allows students to just see the visual in the visual literacy. Lens #2 is Drawing on Prior Knowledge, this is what students already know and their just concluding what they already know to the photograph and making inferences. Lens #3 is Gathering your Information, on this, you need to do our own personal research to fully understand what exactly the photo or visual literacy explains. Lens #4 is Deepening Knowledge this is asking yourself deeper more personal questions about the photo. Lens #5 Gaining Understanding students need to use information literacy, this allows students to evaluate the visual literacy. Lens #6 is Generalizing Learning making up symbols and rules about the literacy. Lens #7 Student Learning this is the students role and their conclusions of the literacy. These 7 lenses allow students to get a clear visual of each category in an organized way.
Reference:
Abilock, D. (2002 April 21) Seven Power Lenses.https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6DFAmexYq7vMTFmZjZhNWItZWY5Ni00NzdhLWIxYzItMmE4NmI0MGI5NzJl&hl=en
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Great response and Video! It is definitely important for students to understand what they are reading and take it all in, even when skimming through articles. That could be something that we could even learn from.
ReplyDeleteNicely put! I think now more than ever children don't grasp the entire meaning behind what they are reading, children now just want to hurry up and get the job done. We all need to slow down and fully understand what we are reading in front of us. I think that I need to Seven Power lens as well. This would be a great thing to teach especially in today's world.
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