Media & Information Literacy: Visual & Performing Arts

Games that tackle political implications offer so much potential not just for history teachers but also art teachers to design units about art over the course of history that has attempted to be used as a communication tool for change in society.

In this article, the authors explore how the construction of meaning takes place across audio and visual elements, and how a music video, Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson, can be interpreted through multiple semiotic resources in art education.

Choosing objects to introduce the wonders of art to beginning viewers should be a thoughtful process. The suggestions offered here are meant to aid the selection of images whether thinking about objects highlighted for museum visits or as part of materials prepared for classroom teaching.

Children's media/visual literacy has gained increasing importance in the field of education. Here, Chung examines ways to foster visual literacy in children as a means to navigate representations of culture in advertising toward the development of critical, informed consumers.

To illustrate to the middle school students the power of logos and slogans and their effects on everyday life, instructors introduced two class activities: a signing activity and a slogans guessing game.

Discusses mixed-media projects done with elementary students in a summer art camp and preservice elementary teachers taking Visual Arts in the Elementary Classroom, illustrating our consideration of how stories carry the curricular potential to bring students' out-of-school experiences into the classroom.