Visual Education

Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment Through Education


Topic / Subject Area:
	Production / Creating Media
	Visual Literacy
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Visual Education
Inside the creating of a student made film.

By Paul Messaris

In this eloquent argument for a deepening of visual literacy education beyond fostering skills of critical analysis, the author takes us inside the creation of a movie produced by his college students. He points out that the process of creating visual images — not only viewing and analyzing them — contributes greatly to students' understanding of visual information and to their development of cognitive abilities.

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Author:
Paul Messaris teaching at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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