What is Visual Literacy

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The ability to critically understand and use images to articulate knowledge and communicate ideas. Learn more in: Digital Literacy Research

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Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be through a process of reading. Learn more in: The Power of Metaphor in Bringing Clarity for Learners in Learner-Centered Design

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We take in more visual information than ever. The ability to comprehend—and to create—videos, photos, infographics, and other visuals has become essential for daily life and career success. Learn more in: Media Literacy Among College Students: A Study of Sivagangai District, India

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Ability to see, discriminate, and interpret the visible natural or artificial objects and symbols in the environment. Learn more in: Social Aspects of Digital Literacy

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Using and understanding the meanings of images. These meanings may be literal, symbolic, or metaphoric. Learn more in: Showing a Human and Professional Face to the World: An ePortfolio Design Strategy for a Sense of Self

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A learned skill to enable extraction of symbolic meanings from visual information. Learn more in: Designing Animated (and Interactive) Infographics for Remote Learning

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An array of abilities related to understanding, using, and creating visual information. Learn more in: Science of the Archives: Visual Learning about Plants

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It can be expressed as analyzing visual contents, making sense of it and creating our own visual content (Bangir, 2008, p. 77). Learn more in: Evaluation of Women's Perspectives in the East Societies on New Media News

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Analysis and production competences in the use of still and moving images to deliver messages. Learn more in: Digital and Media Literacy in Teacher Education: Preparing Undergraduate Teachers Through an Academic Program on Digital Storytelling

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The ability to make meaning from interpreting visual images; it involves effectiveness in finding, interpreting, evaluating, using, and creating visual images as well as understanding contextual, cultural, aesthetic, ethical, intellectual, and technical elements of producing and using visual images. Learn more in: Visual Literacy for Young Language Learners: Multimodal Texts in Content-Based Instruction

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The ability to look at charts, graphs, pictures, and other visual images to grasp an intended message. Learn more in: Using Video Games to Improve Literacy Levels of Males

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The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an images and other information presented in a visual form. This extends the meaning of literacy beyond the common interpretation as only written or printed text. Learn more in: Navigating 21st Century Multimodal Textual Environments: A Case Study of Digital Literacy

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Being able to make meaning of pictures, images, drawings, and more. Learn more in: Visual Literacy and Young Learners

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The ability to use and evaluate information in a variety of formats. Learn more in: Information Literacy

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The ability to know how images affect and influence society or how they affect what an individual likes and dislikes. Learn more in: Integrating Digital Photography into Adult Education

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The ability to look at visual information with perception. A visually literate person understands how visual elements contribute to the meaning of the whole. Learn more in: Active Learning and Its Implementation for Teaching

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The ability to create, understand, and communicate through the use of visual images. Learn more in: New Visual Literacies and Competencies for Education and the Workplace

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The concept of visual literacy includes a process used for explaining the acquired skills, interpreting, and evaluating visual messages and creating meaning for visual messages. Learn more in: A Study in Image Creation Techniques in the Context of Visual Literacy

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The ability to interpret actions or images that are seen. Learn more in: The Role of Graphic Novels in K-12 Classrooms

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The first stage of literacy development for learners with all five senses, visual literacy, is followed by language and then written literacy (Sinatra, 1986). (See Figure 1) Humans with sight actively view and seek information as hearing develops. It is the responsibility of educators to create learning environments for all learners to develop cognitive skills. “Language, then, becomes the natural extension of symbolic thought, and symbolic thoughts help form the mental schemata of a visually literate person” (Sinatra, 1986, p. 11). Learn more in: Concept Mapping and Formative Assessment: Elements Supporting Literacy and Learning

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The ability to understand and evaluate information presented visually. Learn more in: An Overview of Multilingual Learners' Literacy Needs for the 21st Century

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The ability to know how images affect and influence society or how they affect what an individual likes and dislikes. Learn more in: Integrating Digital Photography into Adult Education

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The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. Learn more in: Media Literacy Organizations

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Ability to see, discriminate, and interpret the visible natural or artificial objects and symbols in the environment. Learn more in: The Roles of Digital Literacy in Social Life of Youth

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A person’s ability to see and understand images and objects. Learn more in: Reconceptualizing Visual Literacy in Architectural Education: Decoding and Encoding the Visual Language of Architecture

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The cultural and practical skill to read / understand what images show according to their rhetorical strategy. Visual literacy is focused on the potentialities of the image, on the suggestive and evocative power of images, on what images shows and suggests (the implicit, the unseen). Learn more in: Visual Literacy and Visual Rhetoric: Images of Ideology Between the Seen and the Unseen in Advertising

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The ability to understand, create, and use visual messages. Learn more in: Information Architecture and the Comic Arts: Knowledge Structure and Access

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The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. Learn more in: Concepts of Propaganda: Educating Responsible Citizens by Integrating Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles Into a Smart Learning Environment