image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzee_que/3248676309/
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” (Cisco systems, 2008)
To gain information, either listening or reading could be an option, which also means it might be difficult to get an organised idea without suitable images stored in the brain. Therefore, as cognitivism view argues, visual images are used as incoming information and the brain tries to organise the information. Visual images can impact on brain working. Cisco systems (2008) explains that people remember 50 % of what we hear and see whereas just 10% of what we read. I uploaded the photo of Elisabeth of Bavaria. In this case, rather than hearing she was the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, the image is useful in understanding who she was.
Moreover, allocating information develop understandings students need to gain according to the theory of Big6 (Eisenberg, 2001)
Flicker provides additional information on rights to use. The uploaded image above is free to use. As mentioned, it is useful to involve some images during any learning activities, teachers have to notify students on the importance of copy right because one is not always allowed to use an image without informing the author.
References:
Cisco systems. (2008). Multimodal learning through media: What the research says. Retrieved from http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/education/Multimodal-Learning-Through-Media.pdf
Eisenberg, M. (2001). Big 6(tm) skills overview. Retrieved from
http://www.big6.com/2001/11/19/a-big6%E2%84%A2-skills-overview/
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” (Cisco systems, 2008) That is true! If you saw the thing once in your life, you can remember about it forever because the impact to seeing the thing in real life is huge! I am a visual learner so the real experience to see the thing is the best way to remember and study for me.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I will say that most of students are visual learners. There is no doubt that teachers should not speak about it but show it!
ReplyDeleteIt is true that adding visual stimulation enhances a learner learning and with a learner remembering 50% of what they see and hear it becomes important to accommodate visual and audio learning styles when teaching.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments, Tae, Aoi and Charleen.
ReplyDeleteSince images have an impact on people's mind, visual images may be used to stimulate classroom discussions as well in my future teaching! We have learnt that using a variety of resources is an effective strategy to apply. Therefore, it sounds a great idea to show images to students, and they can receive more information about what they learn. It also leads to real-life experience if a topic relates to a subject like social study.