Week Ten Blog - Visual Literacies

  Visual Literacies

My comment on the value of digital games and stories that are produced as adaptations of literature begins when understanding the points made in the lecture by Forrest (n.d.), who explains the importance of images and books, including those that have no words. From this knowledge, I can determine the importance of images not just in books but in any context and the role they have in understanding a situation and experience. The connections were made between the telling of the story through characters' eyes, positions, shape, size, etc, (vector, gaze) as well as the physical elements of the image (colour, salience) these explain the importance of the physical picture that can be seen to the eye, and supports young children to see the message of images and understand context (text to world/text/self) (Forrest, n.d.). Callow (2016) explains the quality of exploring many books, titles, and authors to extend their visual literacy and language and exploring the multimodal aspects of reading. Through learning this, children's minds are open to create their own texts that demonstrate what they understand about images, including language used, how pictures make meaning, and the connections that they can make (the D.A.R framework) also demonstrates this and helps children connect to all aspects of literature/literacy development (Forrest, n.d.). 

By exploring apps, games and digital stories, children are accessing common and known literacy language from books and using them to adapt, follow and understand the needs and multimodal requirements of the online world (Callow, 2016). These texts can also provide learning opportunities and display important features of making meaning with visual literacy that may not be as evident or exciting, given the new technological world and all it has to offer and due to the moving aspects can provide visual stories along with other language features too. The internet also provides quality options for children of all ages to access, and can do more good than harm.

(Image of visual literacy devices)
(Cultivating creativity in writing, n.d.)

Reference List:

Callow, J. (2016). Viewing and doing visual literacy using picture books. Practical literacy, 21(1), 9-12. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322851057_Viewing_and_doing_visual_literacy_using_picture_books

Forrest, S. (n.d.). An introduction to visual literacy. https://unisa.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=94a29893-c69f-4a50-a5ee-aaa30035547e

Cultivating creativity in writing. (n.d.). Multimodal and new literacies. https://cultivatingcreativityinwriting.weebly.com/multimodal-and-new-literacies.html

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