ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses educational issues related to the use of visuals: pictures, graphs, and charts. It deals with media literacy, concentrating on film and television. The chapter examines electronic or digital literacy. It explains the content area teacher's role in helping students construct knowledge using computers, software, and the Internet. The chapter describes types of books that are appropriate to use to enhance visual learning and literacy in the content areas, including visual trade series books, wordless picture books, cartoons and comics, and graphic novels. Several popular trade book series capitalize on the visual learning modes. Long developed the full circling methodology, a multi-layered process that "uses visual media as text to be critically read, interpreted, and employed as a call to action". E. T. Dresang sees digital culture as able to provide a nurturing environment for children's capabilities. K. Chandler-Olcott and D. Mahar recommend recruiting tech-savvy students to mentor their peers as they transact with digital technologies.
