Mar 12th, 2011
Visual Literacy Lesson Plan
For my digital literacy plan, I created a lesson that I will be able to use in my adult ESOL class in May. For the last three weeks of the year, we can do a special module. At that time of the year, it is difficult to get students to attend class so anything we can do to make it more appealing helps. In our regular class site, we have no internet access which just kills me! For our last three weeks, we are going to meet at the local library so we can use their wireless Internet. The class will consist of intermediate and advanced adult students. Another teacher and I are bringing our classes together. We have put together a brief outline of the entire module. All of the links and videos will be on a wiki (still a work in progress) so the students can get to them easily.
The computer skills of these students vary greatly. A few are very Internet savvy and use Facebook and email regularly. A few of the students don’t even have a computer. One of the challenges with the module will be differentiating and being able to help all of the students. Some won’t even know how to turn the computer on! We definitely have our work cut out for us!
The students will have already learned about checking for valid sources on the Internet so this will continue that conversation into how to find photos. A large goal of this module is to get them to question what they see on the Internet so they can be more savvy users.
The students will be able to distinguish between real and doctored photos.
The students will be able to use and cite Creative Commons photos.
The students will be able to create a photo that looks, but is not real.
Procedure:
Students will look at photos from the Life website that are real and doctored in small groups and decide which ones are real and which ones aren’t.
Come back together as a group and look at the photos. Show ways that you can tell if they are real. Include other examples of doctored photos and videos.
Students will work in groups to create their own “What’s wrong with this picture?” photos, using their cell phone cameras. When finished we will come back together and share them.
Creative Commons – present why we need to use CC photos for our online works.
Students will use CC to find photos for their blog posts.
Students will write a blog post about why we use CC photos and upload a photo to go with it.