Reading the Image

I think its very interesting that this weeks reading is on "reading" images, because I just read about visual literacy in one of my other classes. I definitly think that visual literacy needs to be amped up in classroom. Students do not know how to pause and really see what they are looking at. If a teacher asks the right questions the thinking that students do while reading images can be just as indepth as when they read text. Another reason that placing an emphasis on visual literacy is so important is because not all students excel at reading text,this reading images gives them chance to still access the content without being frustrated.

I also really like the idea of students using images to express their ideas, but I have had problems with using this in the computer lab when the printers don't work or do not print color, and thus the workt hat the students created can not adequntly be presented. I certainly hope that the price of colr printing goes down, because I think that will open up alot of whatis being discussed here.