Making Good Use of Pictures

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Author(s): Pınar Nuhoğlu Kibar (Hacettepe University, Turkey)and Rune Pettersson (Institute for Infology, Sweden)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on K-12 Blended and Virtual Learning Through the i²Flex Classroom Model
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Maria D. Avgerinou (American Community Schools (ACS), Athens, Greece)and Peggy Pelonis (American Community Schools (ACS), Athens, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7760-8.ch006

Keywords: Blended & Mobile Learning / Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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Pictures have been important for communication for thousands of years. It is easy for students to lose interest in learning materials with complicated content. Visuals may have many functions, such as attract, gain, get, hold, and maintain attention of a learning material. In contrast to pictures used for advertising, decoration, and entertainment, the main purposes for use of visuals in education are cognitive and pedagogical. Our use of pictures must always be adapted to the intended audiences, and to the available technology. Teachers, and students, need to pay attention to visuals in learning materials. Most students do not attend to the visuals unless they actually are instructed to do so. At this point, how pictures are included in the learning process is decisive on the expected impact. As an effective visualization type, infographics enable conveying complex information in a big picture by combining text and visuals. Beyond instructor-provided infographics, infographic creation enables focusing on a subject, researching in-depth and visualizing the constructed knowledge.

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