Visual Literacy

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." -- Nikos Kazantzakis

The Article Critical Visual Literacy: Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum by Barb Blakely Duffelmeyer and Anthony Ellertson was interesting.  Literacy today involving technology is fast moving and at times may be hard to keep up with.  I for one, have not kept up-to-date with technology, for the sole reason of how things may be obsolete, at times it is confusing, with technology.  What I usually do is just learn along the way, learn how to use the technology, new commands that come up, the new programs.  The internet is very resourceful.  I saw a quote once that said, Google will give you over a thousand hits, but a librarian with give you the right one.  Some may argue that Libraries have become obsolete, because we have the internet, and all the information at our finger tips, that may be true to some effect, but we still need the guidance of an instructor, to show us how to use that information, and of course to validate that info.  It may also be argued that the hardest thing to teach anyone today is how to think.  Visual literacy aids us definitely, but how to interpret that information and with the right guidance is crucial.  As teachers we must take into account, and we cannot fight technology, we must comply, and learn what our students are learning.

Image Taken From: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jwillil/literacy.html
Quote Taken From: http://ripplemaker.hubpages.com/hub/50_Inspirational_Quotes_for_Teachers