No More Eye Candy |
INSPIRING VISUAL IMAGINATION AND ASSESSING CREATIVITY THROUGH CRITICAL THINKING
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7 Tenants of Creative Thinking | Edutopia
Battling Visual Plagiarism | Ethics in Design Creating Effective Poster Presentations Developing Your Own Rubric | Strategies and Ideas Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo | Hany Farid, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth and Fourandsix Technologies (use all five screens) Photo Tampering Throughout History | Hany Farid and Kevin Connor Quick check on the validity of an image | Daniel M. Russell of Google (math focus) Student Centered Assessment Guide | Students at the Center HUB The New York Times on the Web, in photos | though graphic, controversial images Visual Literacy and the Common Core Standards | Kristin Fontichiaro, (K-12) What Going on in this Picture | New York Times* Why is Creativity Important | video with Sir Ken Robinson Yellow Journalism: Past and Present | Kathryn Mott |
More About This Work... |
Cutting-edge technologies allow students to mash-up and create images in sophisticated ways; yet, with so many tools making it simple to create, how do we guide students beyond eye candy to find, evaluate, and use creative visual images that push through to deeper learning and expression?
The experience and knowledge students acquire from their study of thinking critically about mass communication material will be applicable in all subject areas, in all careers, and in their daily lives. In this session, participants will learn to guide and assess students’ visual products for creative and critical thinking by: visualizing the type of images needed to provide evidence relevant to their task or claim; determining the relevance, credibility, and quality of the visual components they discover; creating strong visual claims that support your argument or explanation; and engaging in honest self-assessment of their creativity and critical thinking in their visual products. Participants will begin by being exposed to a hands-on Project Based Learning activity to experience student behavior. From out of our own workflow we relearn what our students are experiencing and we unpack the complexities involved in the creative process. Workshop discussion will model techniques for using media in the classroom to focus on critical thinking and assessment of creativity. Participants will also learn about new tools for student creativity and collaboration. Participants will leave with tools for assessing media and creativity in the form of rubrics and diagrams that can be modified and used with students in the classroom based on scholarly research. |
Supporting Research |
Abilock, Debbie. Credibility Research
Abilock, Debbie True or Not? Educational Leadership, March 2012 70-74 Banaji, Shakuntala, Burn, and Andrew. "Creativity through a rhetorical lens: implications for schooling, literacy and media education." Literacy 41 (July 2007): 62-70. Elkins, James. Visual Literacy. Routledge Chapman & Hall, November 2007. Lamb, Annette and Daniel Callison. Graphic Inquiry. Libraries Unlimited 2012. Larmer, John. How Can We Teach and Assess Creativity and Innovation in PBL? Buck Institute for Education, 2014. Leeuwen, Theovan. "New forms of writing, new visual competencies." Visual Studies 23 (September 2008): 130-135. Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church and Karen Morrison. Making Thinking Visible. Jossey-Bass, 2011. Rosa, Richard. Design-Based Learning: A Methodology for Teaching and Assessing Creativity. California State Polytechnic University, 2016. University of Connecticut, University of Virginia, Yale University. Assessing Creativity: A Guide for Educators. 2002 Walsh and S. Christopher. "Creativity as capital in the literacy classroom: youth as multimodal designers." Literacy 41 (July 2007): 79-85. |
Media and Image Sources
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Creativity Rubric | A Work in Progress developed in part by Debbie Abilock, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Tasha Bergson-Michelson.
Openclipart.org - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication Silva, Joao. A sniper loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr fires towards U.S.positions in the cemetery in Najaf, Iraq. Michele McNally; joaosilva.photoshelter.com Thinglink critic of Silva's photograph The Noun Project - Creative Commons free icons Presentation created with Adobe Spark |