Teaching with Digital Images (Ch 5)

This was another helpful chapter out this book. This chapter focused on why we should use digital images in education. First the author began by citing a study by National Standards for ArtEducation that found students not only need to learn to communicate verbally, but they should also learn how to process information visually. The author also reminds us how images are significantly important in memory and imagination, which of course are key in education. The author illustrates the importance of images by showing two pictures that convey the same story, but they use different artistic elements in order to get there. I like that this shows how you can express two different feeling about the same story simply by using pictures, I think this is an important concept for students to grasp through education. Byincorporatig the arts students give moreo of themselves than the normally would in the general subject areas. I liked the quote the author used byEric Jensen "Good learning does not avoid emotions, it embraces them." this was a pretty nice quote since he is who we are studying in our brain based learning class. I definitely agree with him. I think students will learn more easily if they are emotionally connected to the material they are learning. The author then discussed several reasons why teachers should do storytelling with digital images, which include: humanistic, cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, multisensory multimodal, constructivist, and memory and narrative. There are too many positives to not include digital images into the educational environment. It can really only serve to enhance your classroom.