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The document discusses the importance of viewing as a macro-skill in visual literacy, emphasizing its role in understanding and interpreting visual media. It outlines strategies for enhancing viewing literacy through pre, during, and post-viewing activities, encouraging active engagement and critical thinking. Additionally, it highlights the significance of visuals in memory retention, comprehension, and emotional connection.

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Module 5

The document discusses the importance of viewing as a macro-skill in visual literacy, emphasizing its role in understanding and interpreting visual media. It outlines strategies for enhancing viewing literacy through pre, during, and post-viewing activities, encouraging active engagement and critical thinking. Additionally, it highlights the significance of visuals in memory retention, comprehension, and emotional connection.

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Viewing is the act of seeing, watching, or examining

(Your Dictionary, 2020)

It is the active process of attending and comprehending visual media, such as


television, advertising images, films, symbols, photographs, videos, drama,
drawings, sculpture, and paintings.
(Canadian Common Curriculum Framework, 2020)

It is the fifth macro-skill;


it refers to perceiving, examining, interpreting, and constructing of meaning
from visual images
(Asking Lot, 2021)

Visual literacy is a set of abilities that enables an individual to


effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media.
(University of Birmingham, 2021)

Visual Literacy is fundamental to constructing meaning and constitutes one of


the elements of media literacy which is “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate
and communicate messages in a variety of forms”
(Aufderheide 1993: xx)

Media literacy revolves around the capacity to decode and process


both electronic and print media.
(Christ & Potter 1998: 79)
Why ‘Viewing’?

Most learners are


visual.

Visuals stick in
long-term memory.

Visual information
is transferred
faster.
Visuals improve
comprehension.

Visual cues trigger


emotions.

It creates more
educated image
readers.
It supports EAL
Learners.

Our mathematical
thinking is grounded in
visual processing.

The role of
visualization helps
simplify and deliver
complex scientific
concepts.
WAYS: Enhancing “Viewing” Literacy in the New Normal
Pre, During, and Post Viewing
It’s important that students are aware that understanding the
viewing process is as important as understanding the listening
and reading process. Students should understand that
effective, active viewers engage in the following procedure:

Anchor Strategies: Viewing Purpose, Preview, Predict, Connect


Set a viewing purpose
Anchor Strategies: Viewing Purpose, Preview, Predict, Connect
Preview video (editing conventions, length, title)

Anchor Strategies: Viewing Purpose, Preview, Predict, Connect


Predict (e.g., sequence of events, video creator’s position on a given
topic, etc.)
Anchor Strategies: Viewing Purpose, Preview, Predict, Connect
Identify media connections
(e.g., I read a book on a related topic recently; I saw a tweet that
described this same idea but in sarcastic terms, etc.)

DURING VIEWING
Anchor Strategies: Stop, Clarify, Question, Infer
Stop (or pause) the video while viewing based on viewer preference
and monitoring of own understanding

Rewind to clarify understanding or uncover subtle data/events


Rewatch video with new purpose and perspective
Adjust viewing speed (i.e., use slow-motion) if available (e.g.,
physics videos)
Anchor Strategies: Stop, Clarify, Question, Infer
Clarify (e.g., information, bias, fact/opinion, ‘author’ position, etc.)

Anchor Strategies: Stop, Clarify, Question, Infer

Make meaningful and personalized inferences


(e.g. primary and secondary audiences)

AFTER VIEWING
Anchor Strategies: Summarize, Analyze, Create, Socialize
1. Retell what happened; Paraphrase “standout” ideas
2. Summarize main idea and key supporting details
3. Recall own thinking and/or emotions during video (metacognition)
4. Modality Analysis (e.g., identify and analyze prevailing modalities
and their effect)
5. Metric Analysis (e.g., to infer social context with respect to total
views, currently watching, social shares, etc.)

Anchor Strategies: Summarize, Analyze, Create, Socialize

Create a word cloud (e.g., that reflects diction, tone, theme,


etc.); Tweet, comment on, blog, or otherwise socialize initial
impressions and extended responses in a way that reflects digital
citizenship
SEE, THINK, WONDER
This strategy helps students make careful observations and develop
their own ideas and interpretations based on what they see when
viewing a visual item by asking these three questions:
Visual Thinking Strategy
➢ The a …
a. Listens carefully to each comment
b. Paraphrases student responses demonstrating language use
c. Points to features described in the artwork throughout the
discussion
d. Facilitates student discussions
e. Encourages scaffolding of observations and interpretations
Validates individual views
References:
About The Author Terry Heick Founder & Director of TeachThought.
(2021, March 10). 40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies.
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comprehension-strategies- watching-videos-like-you-read-a
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Donaghy, K. (2019, July 26). Advancing Learning: The fifth skill –


'viewing'. Onestopenglish.
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Egwurube, J. (2012, February 15). Using visual documents in distance


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