Bernie Miller's presentation at the first CPUT Teaching and Learning with Technology day

1. The
Power
of
images
empowers
thinking
Bernie Millar
Dept Clothing & Textile Technology
Information Literacy – Visual
literacy

2. Structure of Presentation
Only two aspects of my visual teaching
• Schema theory where previously acquired
knowledge is called schemata
•Theoretical Framework – New Literacy Studies,
New Media Literacies Studies
•Comprehension and Reflection
What? So What? Now What?

3. Teaching students how to read a visual text
ENABLE COMPREHENSION by getting students to engage
with and to think about what they see in front of them…
Start with a visual text like an image or picture…
What
do
you
see?

6. Romanesco - a vegetable fractal

7. Schema Theory
• A schema, then, is a generalized description
or a conceptual system for understanding
knowledge-how knowledge is represented and
how it is used.
• According to this theory, schemata represent
knowledge about concepts: objects and the
relationships they have with other
objects, situations, events, sequences of
events, actions, and sequences of actions.

8. Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
Autocratic leadership
Very controlling, leader
has great deal of power
1769- Born 15 Aug on Corsica, an island
1795-1799 Famous French army general
1800 – First Consul of France
1804 – Became Emperor of France
1812 – Disastrous war against Russia
1814 – Napoleon abdicated as Emperor
Exiled to Elba
1815- Returned to power in France
1815 –Defeated by British at Waterloo
Exiled to island called St Helena
1821- Died on St Helena, aged 51

9. Theoretical Framework
New Literacy Studies - James Gee et al.
New Media Literacy Studies – taking a critical, socially
and culturally situated stance: Buckingham ;
Coiro, Lankshear, Knobel & Leu 2009:
“The new literacies of the Internet are sufficiently
distinctive that they require their own theoretical
framework – one that is grounded in the social
practices of the new literacies of the Internet & other
ICT, and the contexts & conditions under which these
social practices occur, develop and evolve ... and for
critical evaluation to be applied” ...

10. Economics: Supply and Demand Curves
Accounting: Financial Statements

11. Using TED TALKS
To encourage student engagement with
reflection on and
understanding of the visual text...
To enable critical & analytical thinking...
To lay down mental schemata...
To broaden horizons & foster knowledge...

12. Using TED TALKS
I ask 3 questions
taken from the principles of Service
Learning’s Reflective Journals

13. WHAT?
WHAT? –
What’s the text about?
Descriptive...
Summary & beyond...

14. SO WHAT?
SO WHAT? –
Shift from descriptive to interpretative –
So what does this mean for me?
Explore what it means for me...
why should I be interested in this?
My feelings?
Lessons learned?

15. NOW WHAT?
Now What?
How does this fit into the bigger picture?
Now that I see this has some meaning for
me, now what am I going to do about this in
the future ?
I can create an action plan,
I can set future goals...
FREE-WRITE...

17. LEWIS PUGH’s
1km swim across
the North Pole
July 2007

18. Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral

19. Using Video to think
about dangers of
social media

20. www.khanacademy.org

21. To download videos
Download REALPLAYER from the Internet
It’s Free
Every time you watch a video, a banner pops up
to ask: “Download this video?”
Click on it and Voila!
You can build up a library of videos

22. TeachertrainingVideos.com to create FOTOBABBLES
youtube.com/edu
125,000 free instructional videos from universities and
independent educators like the Khan Academy.
moma.org/modernteachers
The Museum of Modern Art offers free guides, lessons, and
images on topics like futurism and artists like Eva Hesse and
Roy Lichtenstein.
code.google.com/edu Computer science students and educators
can access tutorials, courses, and videos
on web programming, distributed
systems, and other Google-related fare.
Many courses were developed by
Googlers themselves.

23. apple.com/education/itunes-u
With Stanford, Oxford, MIT, and some 800 other
universities offering lectures on iTunes, you can carry
lessons on anything from astrophysics to zoology on your
iPhone.
cnx.org
CONNEXIONS - This open source site lets users assemble
educational materials—videos,documents, charts—in one
place. Called knowledge chunks, these lessons can then be
shared with the public for revising and remixing.
In his dazzling video series, University of Illinois
engineerguy.com engineering professor Bill Hammack explains the
workings of everyday objects—like a computer
hard drive or a lightbulb.

24. DANKIE
THANK ENKOSI
YOU