In the News: Visual Learning (it's in the News!)

Digital lessons that are part of interactive learning design can easily incorporate visual images. We know the current generation of students are visual learners, and we know that enhancing lessons with visuals is an effective differentiated instruction strategy.

Watching the news today I realized that they know it, too and that our generation (any generation) may learn more or differently when information is delivered with supporting audio and visual.

The weather is visual - we don't hear the temperature. We see the geography, the cloud cover, graphics display pictures along with degrees for the 5-day forecast. Newscasters have a picture over their shoulder. More often than not we see audio and video intertwined with current story.

It is simple and obvious, television is visual and television is powerful. It makes sense that visual learning in the classroom can be powerful, too.