the daily reflector image collection: best practices in the classroom

Overview Primary and Secondary Sources▪ Identification▪ Student Engagement▪ Curriculum Alignment

Digital Collections▪ Classroom resource▪ Critical thinking skills

Teaching with Photographs

Objects Images Audio Statistics Text

Active Experience

Manipulating real historical materials

Critical Thinking Skills▪ Multiple perspectives▪ Forming

interpretations

Identify your instructional needs

North Carolina Standard Course of Study http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/ Rewrite your lesson or activity outcome

to include your primary source material.

African American men being drafted

NCSCOSGRADE 8 NC HISTORY

Competency Goal 6- The learner will analyze the immediate and long-term effects of the Great Depression and World War II on North Carolina. Objectives 6.04 Assess the impact of

World War II on the economic, political, social, and military roles of different groups in North Carolina including women and minorities.

PRIMARY SOURCE AND CONTEXT EXAMPLE

Photograph URL: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/3910 (African American men being drafted)

Conscription in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#Cold_War_and_Korean_War

Online database

Treasure Chest Digital versions High quality materials Online access Preservation of rare materials

Examples ECU digital collections

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/ Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

Engagement of Students Reflection Articulation Problem-solving Exploration Hypothesis

generation Role playing Collaboration and

Social Negotiation

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. -Ansel Adams 

The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image.

Based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading.

What’s in the picture? Context Answer: who, what,

where, and when?

The photographer’s decision Composition Moment in Time Setting Focal Point

The viewer decides Implicit v. explicit

context

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. 

-Ansel Adams

All images from the Daily Reflector Image Collection http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/reflector/

Ansel Adams quotes from http://www.brainyquote.com

LearnNC: Resources for teaching with photographs http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/678

Wikipedia Search: conscription http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Conscription_in_the_United_States#Cold_War_and_Korean_War