Improve student learning through teacher’s decisions and technology – harry.g.tuttle at gmail
Do you creative negative stereotypes by showing outdated pictures or by showing a picture representing only a small portion of the of people or things from other countries?
My book, Formative Assessment: Responding to Your Students, is available through Eye on Education.
Also, my book, Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment, is available through Eye on Education.
When we apply critical thinking to how we use images/photos/flickr in Web 2.0, we can assess how well our students communicate.
The following rubric applies the “Universal Intellectual Standards” by Linda Elder and and Richard Paul which was modified by Gerald Noisch in his Learning to Think Things Through.
In my English class I was reviewing basic paragraph writing. I found that of 66 students (3 classes), only two students had had a visual way to remember what goes in a paragraph. One had a snowman analogy and one had a hamburger analogy. When I introduced them to the hand analogy, one student commented that her teachers did not give her visuals of writing.
The visual act as a scaffold to guide the students as they write. In addition, they can self-check themselves by using the visual.
How do you visualize the critical information in your course in a visual only (no-text) manner to help all students to learn?
I have been taking some pictures of the class textbook so that I can project the image and then mark it up. I copy a speech and then we go through and identify how the speaker has introduced, given evidence, and concluded. Yesterday we went through an information speech and the students focused on every mention of an expert (person, book, or professional organization) to show that the speech has been built on facts. It took me about three minutes to take the pictures, move them over to my computer, do a simply crop, and save as a .gif file to put into the PowerPoint. It is a simple technique if you do not have a document camera, if you do not have a scanner, and if you are too lazy to retype the whole three page entry.
I’ve been preparing some images to use in my Writing classes. Flickr has the biggest selection of high quality and of good vivid images. There are many pictures that convey emotion as well as action and location. The advantage of being able to search helps to find the “right” image to use in the class for the particular purpose. I’ve made a word processing document of the picture URLs and the writing topics I’ll use the students for such as cause-and-effect and process writing. I look forward to using exciting pictures in the classroom that will encourage the students to write.
How have you used Flickr images in your classroom?
Education with Technology
Education with Technology Harry G. Tuttle 
