Digital Tool 9 - Images

Using images and photographs in the classroom can be a powerful learning tool that provokes creativity, emotion, imagination and a deeper understanding. Within the classroom images can play many roles from 'hooking' the students as an original text, to storytelling, to extracting and interpreting meaning. Choosing the appropriate image to integrate into the lesson is essential for to further students thinking. When choosing an image, all learners beliefs and backgrounds must be taken into consideration and respected, ensuring it is a positive and enlightening experience for all learners. I used flickr to download the picture above. Flickr was easy to navigate around and finding quality pictures was fairly easy. A negative aspect of using flickr is that it is not suitable for students to freely explore, as some of the pictures are inappropriate. In the future I will definitely use images and photographs to enhance learning and evoke meaning.