TY - GEN

T1 - Teaching with Technology: How Visuals Can Produce Active Learners

AU - Repina, Tatiana

N1 - Conference code: 5

PY - 2019/10

Y1 - 2019/10

N2 - The digital age offers greater opportunities to apply visuals in business education. Visuals can best develop the 21st century skills and help understand complex theories and abstract ideas, lead to activating cognitive processes in analyzing and systematizing the data and find a focused condensed way of representing them, produce the required emotional and aesthetic appeal. The direct connection between language and cognition provide rationale for this study. The use of images in language learning has a long history and can set anexample how to motivate students and turn them into active life-long learners. The experience of combining language instruction with content learning and developing critical thinking skills, creativity, collaboration, communication has shown good results at the faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg state university, where interdisciplinarity and liberal educational methods create the right environment for studying visual literacy and joining the efforts of the faculty in working out the criteria for choosing the visuals for the course and studying their impact on the learning outcomes of students enrolled in disciplines other than Visual Arts.

AB - The digital age offers greater opportunities to apply visuals in business education. Visuals can best develop the 21st century skills and help understand complex theories and abstract ideas, lead to activating cognitive processes in analyzing and systematizing the data and find a focused condensed way of representing them, produce the required emotional and aesthetic appeal. The direct connection between language and cognition provide rationale for this study. The use of images in language learning has a long history and can set anexample how to motivate students and turn them into active life-long learners. The experience of combining language instruction with content learning and developing critical thinking skills, creativity, collaboration, communication has shown good results at the faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg state university, where interdisciplinarity and liberal educational methods create the right environment for studying visual literacy and joining the efforts of the faculty in working out the criteria for choosing the visuals for the course and studying their impact on the learning outcomes of students enrolled in disciplines other than Visual Arts.

KW - Visual Literacy

KW - IMAGE

KW - Visual

KW - Visuals Selection Criteria

KW - 21st Century Skills

KW - teaching English

UR - https://gsom.spbu.ru/files/emc/GSOM%20EMC%202019%20Book%20of%20Abstracts%2007.10.2019.pdf

M3 - Conference contribution

SP - 65

BT - Annual GSOM Emerging Markets - 2019

CY - SPb.

T2 - 6th international GSOM Emerging Markets Conference-2019

Y2 - 3 October 2019 through 5 October 2019

ER -