TY - JOUR

T1 - Visual Literacy for modern verbally gifted students: a naturally developed ability or a skill that requires organized development?

AU - Bratash, Valentina S.

AU - Galaktionova, Tatiana G.

N1 - The International Journal of Design Education Volume 15, Issue 1, 2021, https://designprinciplesandpractices.com © Common Ground Research Networks, Valentina S. Bratash, Tatiana G. Galaktionova, All Rights Reserved. Permissions: cgscholar.com/cg_support ISSN: 2325-128X (Print), ISSN: 2325-1298 (Online) https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-128X/CGP/v15i01/211-220 (Article)

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - In this article, the authors address the concept of visual literacy by briefly describing the history of its creation and development over the past fifty years and, separately, present analysis of the modern approach to measuring the level of visual literacy. The study primarily aims to detect the visual literacy level characteristic of a modern verbally gifted student. To achieve the goal of the study, criteria for assessing the level of visual literacy of students at the level of competencies were developed using the revised international classification of competencies: basic user, independent user, and professional user. Using these criteria, 596 creative works requiring the use of visual literacy skills were analyzed. The data presented in the article clearly demonstrate that the basic level of visual literacy prevails among gifted schoolchildren. As a tool for developing visual literacy skills, the article also presents the Izotext workshop, which is built on teaching schoolchildren to visualize information, and provides an idea of the results of the workshop's testing during 2016–2019.

AB - In this article, the authors address the concept of visual literacy by briefly describing the history of its creation and development over the past fifty years and, separately, present analysis of the modern approach to measuring the level of visual literacy. The study primarily aims to detect the visual literacy level characteristic of a modern verbally gifted student. To achieve the goal of the study, criteria for assessing the level of visual literacy of students at the level of competencies were developed using the revised international classification of competencies: basic user, independent user, and professional user. Using these criteria, 596 creative works requiring the use of visual literacy skills were analyzed. The data presented in the article clearly demonstrate that the basic level of visual literacy prevails among gifted schoolchildren. As a tool for developing visual literacy skills, the article also presents the Izotext workshop, which is built on teaching schoolchildren to visualize information, and provides an idea of the results of the workshop's testing during 2016–2019.

KW - Pedagogy, Visual Literacy, Text Comprehension, Education, Creativity, Creolized Text, Sketchnoting, Visual Notes

KW - Pedagogy

KW - Visual Literacy

KW - Text Comprehension

KW - Education

KW - Creativity

KW - Creolized Text

KW - Sketchnoting

KW - Visual Notes

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U2 - 10.18848/2325-128X/CGP/V15I01/211-220

DO - 10.18848/2325-128X/CGP/V15I01/211-220

M3 - Article

VL - 15

SP - 211

EP - 220

JO - International Journal of Design Education

JF - International Journal of Design Education

SN - 2325-128X

IS - 1

ER -