Journey Summary
This session will provide an opportunity to delve into digital media in our modern world and how it is used to persuade and influence perceptions. You will have a chance to hone your your skills distinguishing AI-generated from authentic content. Then you will move on to strategies for curating and creating digital media that communicate a powerful message and foster meaningful inquiry in your classroom.
Curriculum-framing Questions
Essential Question
- How might I make a picture worth a thousand words?
Unit Questions
- In what ways do we use and create images to convey messages?
- How might visual literacy be important to students?
Content Questions
- What is copyright?
- Where could I locate copyright-free images?
- What image-editing tools might I use to edit my images?
Introduction
Visual literacy—the ability to interpret, create, and communicate with images and visuals—is a critical skill for today’s students. The introduction of AI-created images and the ability to recognize and use AI as a tool are skills that are just evolving. Incorporating visual media into the instructional materials fosters students’ abilities to make meaning of images that bombard them through media messages.
Theory Behind Practice
All eMINTS materials are grounded in research-based best practices in K-12 education.
Digging Deeper
Agenda
- Opener: Eye of the Beholder
- Using Images to Spark Inquiry
- Choosing the Right Image
- Brain Break: Real or Fake Photo Game
- Image Learning Stations
- Scaffold Your Plan for Instruction
- Closer: Then & Now
Classroom Visit w/Students
Ask your facilitator to assist with a lesson using images or teach a mini-lesson for students demonstrating how to use image-editing software. Your facilitator could also collect data during your image activity for use in a reflecting conversation about the lesson.
Classroom Visit w/out Students
Ask your facilitator to help you brainstorm ideas and find strategies for using images in lessons. Complete a reflecting or planning conversation with your facilitator about the use of images in the classroom.
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