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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Flip is an engaging platform where students can post a video response to a prompt.

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Padlet is an engaging discussion forum where teachers can post a topic or prompt and students can reply.

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Google Classroom is part of the Google Suite. Through this platfrom, teachers can post assignments and information for multiple classes.

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Google Slides is a valuable classroom resource. Teachers can use Google Slides to present material. Students can also use Google Slides to show their knowledge of content.

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Google Slides: Online Slideshow Maker | Google Workspace

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Use Google Slides to create online slideshows. Make beautiful presentations together with secure sharing in real-time and from any device.

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Students and teachers can use Canva to create multi-model presentation in various formats.

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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This resource is valuable in learning how to analyze text, which can be beneficial in determining the validity of online information.

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Time Frame

1 class periods of 30 minutes each

Life Skills

Thinking & Reasoning

Summary

Students individually consider a visual text and draw conclusions based on what they see. They write about their conclusions and explain the evidence used to make that determination.

Materials

A visual text such as the following: graph, political cartoon, photograph, or illustration. Thought-provoking visuals are the most helpful.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to analyze a visual text. Students will be able to develop and support a claim about the visual text based on evidence found in the text.

Instructional Procedures

1. Choose a visual text or texts (graph, political cartoon, photograph, illustration, etc.) that relate(s) to a topic that will be introduced in class.

2. Give each student one visual text to consider.

3. Have students consider the text and write for 3-10 minutes. They should answer the following questions: What conclusion do you draw from this text? What evidence points to that conclusion? Use the following to help structure your response:
*Describe*
- Focus on specific details.
- Imagine you are writing to someone who has never seen this visual text.

*Analyze*
- Record initial reaction.
- Identify important details.
- Consider context and history of image.
- Consider the medium (photo, political cartoon, etc.) -- compare/contrast to other visual texts.
- Reconsider first impressions: reinforce or challenge them.

*Interpret*
- Present a specific claim about image.
- What is the significance or meaning of the image as YOU understand it.
- Interpretation moves beyond stating the obvious.

4. Students then discuss their responses either in small groups or as a class.
This is a good way to get students to consider a topic before having it introduced in class. Students use visual evidence to draw conclusions, and use writing to explain that evidence.

Strategies for Diverse Learners

Simpler texts can be used for struggling students, and more complex texts could be given to gifted/accelerated students.

Extensions

This can be extended to introduce argumentation and/or an inquiry project.

Different students could be given different visual texts that present different sides of an issue.

Once each student has written about his/her text, the class can discuss the issue based on what they have seen to that point.

Students could then see multiple texts and draw conclusions that synthesize the information from all texts.

Additional, non-visual, texts could be added to the process at this point.

Assessment Plan

Informal assessment/participation grade works well for this activity. Ensuring that students have completed and understood all three aspects (describe, analyze, interpret) is the most important concept.

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Time Frame 1 class periods of 30 minutes each Life Skills Thinking & Reasoning Students individually consider a visual text and draw conclusions based on what they see. They write about their conclusions and explain the evidence used to make that determination. A visual text such as the following: graph, political cartoon, photograph, or illustration.

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Teachers and students can benefit from being familiar with ISTE standards.

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The ISTE Educator Standards challenge educators to deepen their practice, empower students and rethink traditional approaches to education.

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This article explains how to avoid plagiarism and why it is important.

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Twitter is a social media platform that teachers can use to post discussion prompts and students can respond.

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From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.