Watching recent events in Ferguson and recent tweets about the immigration debate reminds me how important it is to address visual literacy with our students in the media-rich environment they live in. The last two years I participated in couple of amazing sessions at ALA with Tasha Bergson-Michelson, Debbie Abilock and Kristin Fontichiaro, one on Slow Thinking, and one on Visual Media, which changed how I think about images I see and work with. (I wrote about it here). They dug deep into the details behind the graph […]
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Did we miss the boat?
The nation’s President delivered a very motivational message to a group of obviously excited students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, yet many of our nation’s students missed this message intended for them. As I was listening to it, I thought of Kennedy’s speech which inspired us to go to the moon, and how his speech led young people into being more involved in science, volunteerism, and politics; in fact, even inspiring a future president. Obama’s speech today, no matter your politics, was an eloquent […]