Art+as+Media

-David Considine (Coordinator on the media literacy project at Appalachian State University)
 * "If we teach students to become critical viewers, we do more than give them the ability to analyze the construction of isolated images; we also give them the ability to think critically about the composition of the picture, enhancing their ability to read words and worlds." **

==== This unit will focus on Visual Literacy. The effort here is to help students understand the complex social, economic, political, and personal foundations of visual culture. Students will be introduced to the different contexts in which visual culture exists and functions. Students will be asked to recognize these contexts and demonstrate their understanding of the role that visual culture plays in each. The central principle of this unit is that visual culture can be used to help students improve their critical thinking skills. ====


 * __ The objectives of this unit are to help students: __**


 * appreciate the importance of visual culture in human society
 * recognize that different people and different societies have different uses for visual culture
 * understand the impact of technology on visual culture over time

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"The Wall" The Vietnam Memorial Sculpture

Create your own art online This is the final process skill, creation, for our //Art as Media: A Visual Culture Unit//. Click around any of the sites below to create your own work of art. Your piece needs to get to me somehow. It will be graded. You may print it out if possible, or you may email it to me. Whichever way you choose, be sure to have your name on it, title it, and note the message you are sending to your audience. Have fun.

Blue Man Group National Gallery of Art Picasso Head Scribbler

Andy Rooney When Did This Become Art? -60 Minutes
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