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What is Photo-Visual Digital Skills

Chapter 154
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
The skills that describe the ability of users to ‘read’ and understand unstructions, using visual representations in digital environments.
Published in Chapter:
A Holistic Model of Thinking Skills in the Digital Era
Yoram Eshet-Alkalai (The Open University of Israel, Israel)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch154
Abstract
The present paper presents an updated version of the holistic model of Eshet-Alkalai (2004), adding to it the real-time thinking skill. The paper discusses the value of these skills in refining our understanding of how people interact with digital environments, and examines their application in improving communication among users, scholars and designers of digital environments. The digital thinking skills that are discussed in the paper are the, photo-visual, reproduction, branching, information, socio-emotional and real-time thinking skills . It is suggested that these six digital thinking skills exist in every learner, but their “volume” or “magnitude” differ from person to person.
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