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What is Visual Literacy
1.
The ability to critically understand and use images to articulate knowledge and communicate ideas.
Learn more in: Digital Literacy Research
2.
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
3.
We take in more
visual
information than ever. The ability to comprehend—and to create—videos, photos, infographics, and other
visual
s has become essential for daily life and career success.
Learn more in: Media Literacy Among College Students: A Study of Sivagangai District, India
4.
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
5.
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
6.
A learned skill to enable extraction of symbolic meanings from
visual
information.
Learn more in: Designing Animated (and Interactive) Infographics for Remote Learning
7.
An array of abilities related to understanding, using, and creating
visual
information.
Learn more in: Science of the Archives: Visual Learning about Plants
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
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
12.
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
13.
Being able to make meaning of pictures, images, drawings, and more.
Learn more in: Visual Literacy and Young Learners
14.
The ability to use and evaluate information in a variety of formats.
Learn more in: Information Literacy
15.
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
16.
The ability to look at
visual
information with perception. A
visual
ly literate person understands how
visual
elements contribute to the meaning of the whole.
Learn more in: Active Learning and Its Implementation for Teaching
17.
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
18.
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
19.
The ability to interpret actions or images that are seen.
Learn more in: The Role of Graphic Novels in K-12 Classrooms
20.
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
visual
ly literate person” (Sinatra, 1986, p. 11).
Learn more in: Concept Mapping and Formative Assessment: Elements Supporting Literacy and Learning
21.
The ability to understand and evaluate information presented
visual
ly.
Learn more in: An Overview of Multilingual Learners' Literacy Needs for the 21st Century
22.
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
23.
The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image.
Learn more in: Media Literacy Organizations
24.
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
25.
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
26.
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
27.
The ability to understand, create, and use
visual
messages.
Learn more in: Information Architecture and the Comic Arts: Knowledge Structure and Access
28.
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
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