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Learning to See the Infinite: Teaching Visual Literacy in a First‐Year Seminar Course
Author(s) -
Palmer Michael S.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.20119
Subject(s) - timeline , course (navigation) , mathematics education , visual literacy , literacy , psychology , teaching method , psychological intervention , pedagogy , engineering , archaeology , psychiatry , history , aerospace engineering
This chapter describes a first‐year seminar course designed to develop students’ visual literacy skills. After a brief overview of the course and a discussion of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the instructional interventions, a timeline and description of the specific learning activities are presented.