When I was trying to compare and contrast visual and media literacy I connected visual literacy to the Edgar Dale Cone of Experience diagram that was in the lecture yesterday. I did this because in terms of seeing things visually that is how I learn and it just made a personal connection for me. Here are some of the similarities and differences that I have found.
A similarity between visual and media literacy are that they both deal with the ability to do something. The difference between the two is what the ability that they are actually trying to is. Like for visual literacy is would be to create visual messages, and try to figure out what the visual messages are. For media literacy it is the ability to ask important questions about what you see and the ability to create messages through this new media.
When talking about visual and media literacy a similarity is when people learn visually by having a direct purposeful experience well they do this in media literacy by actually creating real life projects that deal with the media they are talking about. The major difference is that with visual literacy it determines how the topic is taught to the learner. Media literacy would be the application of what is being taught.
Visual literacy is the practical application of media literacy. The function of a visual is to make things more concrete and so being doing a realistic project to learn about media literacy the more the concept is going to stick with the person. When I was thinking examples a great one is our project that is due next week. The photo essay is a great practical application of media and the project doesn't have to extremely complex the more that visual literacy is understood the more complex the project will be.
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