Bridging Technology and Literacy
Digital Images
Why?
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Images are one of the symbols with which our students must be literate in reading and writing to be digital citizens in today’s world.
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The onset of digital technology has expanded the potential to read and also write a variety of texts using digital images.
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Using digital images in K-6 classrooms are also supported by the CCSS.
What?
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Incorporate pictorial images from history, such as photographs or drawings, into classroom instruction.
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Students both read and analyze images as text.
How?
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Using Digital Images in the Classroom
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Annotating photos or web images
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Using digital images to respond to fiction and non-fiction texts
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Using images to build informational texts
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Using images to create digital stories
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Constructing class books with photos and illustrations
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Teaching students how to read image
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Refer to Chapter 4 of the Book for more information
Resources?
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Use drawing tools to summarize or retell the plot of a story or depict character traits
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Use storytelling tools to draw/create a fiction or nonfiction text
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Capture screenshots to illustrate different geographical landscapes represented in fiction and nonfiction texts [ELA/Geographyconnection
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Use images to illustrate their written text to develop fiction or nonfiction book
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Use effects to animate or add text to photos
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Create a postcard in the perspective of a fiction character or historical figure [ELA/History connection]
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Explore photos to create a collage to depict or explain an important event described in a text
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Embed images in a blog to illustrate a digital diary of an important life event