Students today are used to being bombarded with images in every aspect of their lives. They encounter images watching television, on the computer, riding in a car down the street, and even in the school house. By adding digital images to presentations, handouts and room decorations we create a type of normalcy for them. The images help to keep them engaged in the current topic. Images are also valuable in showing rather than telling about events or items we are trying to get them to relate to or understand. The expression "A picture is worth a thousand words" is as true today as when it was coined years ago.
Images can be captured from anywhere. They can be scanned from documents, books, magazines, newspapers and countless other hard copy sources. Images can also come from photographs taken with a digital camera, a cell phone or even a video camera. The images can then be uploaded or downloaded to slide presentations, handouts, web pages or printed and put on the walls, ceilings, doors and windows. The images can be manipulated to look like anything you want them to. A little imagination, a few pieces of equipment (camera, computer, printer, etc...) and you have an attention grabbing lesson for your students.
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13 years ago
I agree with you about the bombarding of digital pictures to everyone everywhere. We are even integrating them into our workplaces. Sometimes as motivational or in a presentation in front of a board meeting. However, I think bringing in a visual aid to the classroom grabs the attention of the student's like you said. Pictures make it what they are learning real to them. It is just not a bunch of words.
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