I came across this beautiful image using Flickr, I have always felt comfortable using technology for miscellaneous purposes, it is only now that I realise how much of an impact it can have on today's children and the endless uses it has in the classroom. This image caught my eye and it made me want to explore it further. I automatically think of using this in a classroom context, it could be the hook or the engaging tool for the beginning of a unit on Australia's wildlife. Learning styles also come into mind, caters for all but mostly visual learners. Images play an important role in everyday living, giving a visual stimulus won't only engage student's but will ultimately enhance rich learning experiences. Friday, July 30, 2010
The power of images
I came across this beautiful image using Flickr, I have always felt comfortable using technology for miscellaneous purposes, it is only now that I realise how much of an impact it can have on today's children and the endless uses it has in the classroom. This image caught my eye and it made me want to explore it further. I automatically think of using this in a classroom context, it could be the hook or the engaging tool for the beginning of a unit on Australia's wildlife. Learning styles also come into mind, caters for all but mostly visual learners. Images play an important role in everyday living, giving a visual stimulus won't only engage student's but will ultimately enhance rich learning experiences. 
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I agree Kadee, Images are so effective. I feel images are effective for all learning styles. It is so important that in the 21st century students are becomming visually literate more and more. This image could be used during an Australian animal theme, or Indigenous/Australian theme. Images do play an important role in everyday living, I agree. Children need to be able to inturpret images to encode and decode them. However, I feel images can engage learners. I feel this way because I have seen teachers use images to stimulate writting tasks and used images on powerpoints to generate ideas and thoughts about a topic. This engages students into the learning experience and so on...
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Hey girls. I did a great lesson with my prep students last year using images. We were learning about crabs and I started off asking the students what they knew about crabs and what they looked like and we made a big brainstorming map. Then as a class we looked at some images of 'real' crabs and we discussed their similarities and difference. The students were amazed at some of the different crabs and were so engaged and excited. We then added to our brainstorming map with all our new information we learnt from the images.
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