... technological, visual, and social studies literacy. The internet mediates student experience. It is both text-based and image-saturated; therefore, it is important for students to develop fluency with the written word and visual literacy. To remain technologically relevant, teachers must harness the potential...

... students develop equally potent visual literacy skills. Students who are more visually literate are better prepared to evaluate the visual messages surrounding them and act, not in rote-response visual stimuli, but rather according to their well-informed conscience. The lesson shared here demonstrates...

... this unit to these students and thus aid other practitioners interested in helping young people to cultivate richer concepts of citizenship. Key Words: citizenship, national identity, visual literacy, performance poetry, civic identity, civic-mindedness Introduction Figure 1. It s not all about you...

...: Historical Photographs, Visual Literacy, Historical Thinking, Inquiry-Based Instruction, Document Analysis, Social Studies Wise-Practices Introduction Adults tend to use texts print and online news articles, letters, and legal contracts to make sense of the world, but written documents tend to hold far less...

.... Emerald Publishing Limited 2012 social studies elementary instruction primary grade instruction citizenship education First Amendment visual literacy Social Studies Research and Practice www.socstrp.org Artful Rights: Using Images to Teach the First Amendment Karon N. LeCompte Baylor...

... Visual literacy Gender Social Studies Research and Practice httpwww.socstrp.org Inquiry Teaching with Primary Source Documents: An Iterative Approach Christine Woyshner Temple University Research on inquiry teaching in the social studies has concluded that it can refer to any number of approaches...