Reading Blog 1

Visual learning education is essential because it allows students to absorb more information. Some students are “visual learners,” but I believe that all students learn better when presented with visual aids. It's sad to imagine how many visually oriented students have lacked the tools to reach their full potential because of the text-oriented educational system. When we hear, read, or write something, it finds a particular precarious foothold in our brain. When we see something or apply information in a visual setting, I feel we get a far more secure handhold on the information. When we can comprehend all the information offered in an image, we can more readily absorb this information. 

I wouldn’t say that younger people have less visual literacy. I think that despite what the author said, a saturation of images is actually quite helpful for learning visual literacy. The more we see images and learn their meaning, the more we can better understand what the next image means. When we see a symbol a hundred times, we start making connections to information not necessarily offered in that specific image alone. Younger students, as a whole, see more images than older age demographics. The internet has made it so we can take in more images with previous contexts. Memes and TikTok trends have that context behind them, creating interconnected communities using very little information. At the end of the day, the idea: “a picture is worth a thousand words still has great merit in the educational community.