Images - In the Classroom

This blog continues on and relates to the previous post Resizing Images – Mobaphoto. I wanted to discuss a little more and provide more examples as I find images and usefulness very interesting and my mind keeps coming up with more and more ideas.

Teachers can use images for multiple purposes of teaching, a map of Australia to learn about geography or a picture of Indigenous Australians to teach diversity and multiculturalism. Images used in the classroom can encourage children to think about what they are seeing, to analyse and evaluate and discuss the image, it also encourages students to use their imaginative and creative skills.

I believe images are amazing, each person can look at the same image and see different things, it may a story, bring back a memory, a smell, a place but whatever the case it makes you think.

A website I found very useful is Practical ways to use digital images in teaching and learning As discussed in the previous post.

An interesting website to explore is See, Think, Wonder.This website suggests a routine for exploring works of art and other interesting things such as, images. It encourages students ask themselves three questions:

What do you see?

What do you think about that?

What does it make you wonder?

While looking at the teachertube website  I found a very interesting photograph of a Leopard and a Mouse, I have attached below. I believe this image would trigger many thoughts in a student’s mind about what they are seeing. Used in the classroom I would begin a discussion about what the students see, what they think they can see or how they interpret the image, discuss the animals in the picture and what they think they might be doing. To further extend on this I would ask the students to write a creative story based on the image. In another direction students could begin research on leopards and present to the classroom as a group project. Teachers and students can both use their imaginations to create many ideas!

                                          Image Courtesy of: http://www.teachertube.com/

                                                            It gets your mind going???

I have added this Image to a Wiki page to begin a discussion on what your personal thoughts are when you first see this image, please add your comments! Thanks.

Reference

Central Queensland University (CQU). (2010). FAHE11001 – Images: Study Guide. Rockhampton. QLD, Australia: Author.

 

JISC Digital Media. (2010). Practical ways to use digital images in teaching and learning. Retrieved November 28, 2010, from

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/practical-ways-to-use-digital-images-in-teaching-and-learning/

 

Visible Thinking. (n.d.). See, Think, Wonder. Retrieved December 2, 2010, from

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/vt/visibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/SeeThinkWonder/SeeThinkWonder_Routine.html