Visual Literacy

In the week following after learning about photoshop, we spent a good deal of time talking about visual literacy, and how important it is in society today. Visual literacy is often overlooked, but without it we wouldn't be able to recognize many things. For example an interesting point was brought up on a youtube video. Would you be able to find a restroom, or a gas station, or even a bottle of coke in a foreign country if you didn't recognize the symbol? In a way visual literacy is like an international language. A common misconception regarding visual literacy is that it only applies to photoshopped material, which is clearly not true.

Visual literacy is very important in a number of different fields. It is extremely important in educating children. Young people need to be taught in multiple ways, and its necessary to learn and interpret things in different ways and visual literacy allows for that. I found a very interesting video youtube which offers some unique points. Here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQNbAtK3c3g

In addition to being extremely important in the field of education, it is also

very important in journalism... most of the time the visual appearance of

something can be the deciding factor whether you read the article or not.

This is the same case with telecommunications and broadcasting.