Integrate visual literacy into your teaching and support multimodal literacy!

Visual literacy is an essential component of information literacy in a world in which information is often conveyed visually through media that employ both images and language. Visual materials have the potential to engage and motivate students. For those students who may be more adept with images than with text, incorporating comics into information literacy pedagogy values types of information that may be more familiar to students and helps to establish a context for other, purely textual materials. Because visual materials are often part of students’ lives outside their academic work, students should learn to interpret images critically and contextually.  Finally, as a medium demanding multiple types of literacies, comics provide a unique opportunity to develop multimodal literacies.

This event is part of the 2018 Library Faculty Development event co-hosted by the Office of the Provost

[featured image from http://www.comicbookliteracy.com/]