Visual Thinking, Images, and Learning in College
Visual Thinking, Images, and Learning in College
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大学视觉思维、图像和学习
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2014
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Alexa Miller
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Philip Yenawine;Alexa Miller
ABOUT CAMPUS / SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2014 Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) © 2014 by American College Personnel Association and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. DOI: 10.1002/abc.21162 discussions, were developed with intentional consistency at the college level? If the new Common Core State Standards are effectively implemented—not a sure bet at this point—students might develop these or similar skills before they get to college. But as it stands now, students enter college only a few weeks out of high school, and we expect them to learn in a much more challenging environment for which few are truly prepared. The rigors, requirements, opportunities, choices, and responsibilities of college are new to most students, yet the general expectation is for them to hit the ground running, with the ability to take in material that is likely more challenging than any encountered earlier, process it in more sophisticated ways, and produce work in forms and at depths and speeds that are most likely new. If students enter college missing essential skills, and if we expect clear, innovative, analytical, reasoned thinking and writing, what responsibility do college educators have to help students learn to think and express themselves in the ways that optimize the potential learning off ered by an array of courses taught by faculty who have spent years acquiring knowledge about their subjects? In this article (and in its companion by Dabney Hailey), we propose a role for the Visual Thinking WH A T I F Y O U R F I R S T Y E A R STUDENTS had both the confidence and language skills to debate complex ideas with you and their classmates and, at the same time, were able to disagree civilly and build on information and ideas from others? What if they expressed opinions based on detailed observations and consistently provided evidence to back them up? Interestingly, we have documented these skills in elementary students—fourthand fi fth-graders—who have experienced a modest intervention called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). VTS uses discussions of art to build language and thinking skills as well as visual literacy, and it accomplishes this in an efficient 10 hours a year beginning in kindergarten. Its effi ciency relates to its structure: it activates and builds on existing skills and interests, is developmentally based, engages peer interaction, and gradually escalates challenges. In addition to these skills, cognitive researcher Abigail C. Housen has documented others that appear over time in almost all students, including the capacity to speculate among multiple possible conclusions drawn from observations. Many students will return to an idea to elaborate or revise opinions based on new information. What if these same skills, deployed easily by 10-year-olds as result of rigorous art-viewing Philip Yenawine and Alexa Miller introduce the practice of Visual Thinking