in the picture using images to develop learning in geography & history photo wendy north 2009
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In the picture
In the picture
Using images to develop Using images to develop
learning in geography & history
learning in geography & history
Photo Wendy North 2009
What?
Why?
How?
Where?
When?
Who?
5 W’s and How
We tend to assume that pictures are easy to understand, requiring little skill, and we often take it for granted that children see what they are asked to look at and that they see what we see in pictures.
Margaret Mackintosh
Where?Where was the market image taken?
Course Outcomes
1. Adapt the ideas shared during the day to make them work for your school, your children and the kind of curriculum that you want to teach. This means you will be using ICT frames to create your own personalised resource.
Aim: to create ICT resources that are adapted to the needs of your children and your school
2. Share the resource you have developed with one or more teachers during the final session
Put Put Yourself Yourself
in the in the PicturePictureWhat
do you see, hear, smell and feel?
Photo Wendy North 2009
First of all we did some focused activities in the classroom that helped us develop using four of our five senses. In this way we learnt that we could describe a place with lots of details and it helped us to bring the place to life through words.
Chembakolli – a village in India
We followed this by using `freeze framing’ to help us take on the role of a character in the photograph. See our photographs on the right.
CAN YOU WORK OUT WHICH FREEZE FRAME SHOWS … ?
friendsvillage schoolwriting sieving concrete the way home
I can feel the soft blue powder the rough and hard wood. my bracelet tickling my arm.
I can smell the misty air that blocked my nose. the moss on the trees and the dead leaves.
Leah
Sieving concreteI can see some trees gently brushing against each other,
my friends working hard.
the muddy floor
I can hear the slight breeze shaking and rattling the trees
my friends talking to me, telling me some things they are going to have for their tea.
Photograph from Action Aid
http://www.chembakolli.com/
Words: Y4 Waterton J & I
Viking Traders
What would you
?
What would you
? Painting by Mark Bergin,
… The daily Life of the Vikings, p. 17
ISBN 0 7502 3580 2
Putting Yourself in the Putting Yourself in the PicturePicture
What do you see,
hear, smell and
feel?
I can see …
Conversation between CharactersThis photograph was taken during World War 2. What might these men be saying to one another?
Visual LiteracyVisual literacy can be compared alongside text based`literacy’ in that they both employ similar processes:
• identifying
• decoding
• interpreting
Visual Literacy
How often do we focus on developing pupils’ skills of reading and interpreting images as opposed to developing these skills with text based sources.
Margaret Mackintosh
Understanding both print and visual sources depends on:
• Observation (based on the use of all the senses)
• Prediction
• Deduction /supposition
• Narrative skills
Looking, thinking & finding outObservation
Senses sheet
Deduction/ Supposition Conversation between charactersEvaluating evidence – What do I know for certain? (definite, possibly, probably true)
http://www.geography.org.uk/eyprimary/visualgeography/researchframes
AdaptAdapt
AdoptAdopt
InnovateInnovate
Your turnACTIVITY 2
Using
Images
Geography
History
What items would we include in the category of image?
• A picture
• A photograph
• A graphic
• A diagram
• A map
• … or a collection of themChris Durbin, former geography inspector/adviser
Staffordshire LA
What is meant by an image
• The perception of places that are inside our heads that derive from our experiences, both direct and indirect.
• The messages given by a single source or by a collection of sources.
• These may be photographs, diagrams or maps but they can also be written accounts.
Chris Durbin, former geography inspector/adviser Staffordshire LA
Why do we use images?
• To help to develop a `sense of place’
• To foster enquiry skills
• To improve visual literacy
• To improve critical literacy
• We use them together to help children to become better learners (of geography and history).
I want to • help children understand that there are many
ways to live in the world and to be happy and fulfilled.
• BUT also to understand that the unequal distribution of wealth and resources means that some people live very hard and difficult lives.
Geography
Photo Wendy North 2009
The Nuffield History Project view• We all come out of the past, and what happened there
influences what happens here and now – we need to know so we can understand the world today.
• Through history, we can lead children to understand how human beings behave and why people act as they do.
• By getting inside the past, we can lead children to respect and value each different period and society in its own terms.
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/primaryhistory/
History
What can you work out from the photograph?
What do you know for certain?
What questions would you like to ask?
The skill of looking at, understanding and interpreting pictures has to be taught through planned directed study.
Margaret MackintoshChapter 9, Primary Geography Handbook (2004) ISBN 1-84377-103-9
Elizabeth – mistress of
spinWhat do I
want you to know about
me?
Web-links
Geography online course materials at:• http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/ks1-3-
courses/course/primary-geography-and-ict/
Geographical Association – Visual Geography• http://www.geography.org.uk/eyprimary/visualgeography/
Wakefield VLE• http://www.wakefieldinset.wakefield.yhgfl.net/mydesktop/
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