Learning Exercise
Dual coding culture
What can you gather about a culture from its imagery? How does text add meaning to visuals? This learning activity explores the meaning found in Japanese woodprints.
- Material:
- Visual Literacy and the Critical Eye
- Date last modified:
- November 8, 2015
- Created by:
- Lesley Farmer
- License:
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This visual literacy exercise presents an artistic interpretation of historical Japanese landscapes, and helps users... see more
Exercise
What can you learn about cultural history by looking at that culture's images? Hwo does text inform imagery?
Follow the visual exercise of analyzing Japanese woodprints at http://stielwlrbhs.weebly.com/japanese-woodblock-prints-visual-literacy-exercise.html. Write down your responses to all the questions/prompts in the exercise.
Technical Notes
Access to the Internet
Requirements
A written or word-processed document that includes the answers/responses to all the questions/prompts in the visual exercise
Topics
Visual literacy
Japanese art and culture
Type of Task
Learning Objectives
Identify visual cues about Japanese culture and history.
Recognize the role of text and image in gaining meaning about Japanese culture and history.
Make make inferences from observed data and to form hypotheses/ questins that can be tested by reference to visual and written evidence.
Assessment
Clear, complete, feasible, and justified answers/responses to the exercise questions/promopts