Preparing visually literate learners, notes from some articles

The Educator’s Role in Preparing Visually Literate Learners
Susan E. Metros (2008)
Metros gives us a good background on how our culture has become dependant on the visual
-visual literacy: capacity to communicate instantly and universally.
-advances in technology fueled shift
- Some students and some teachers lack a vocabulary of vision to communicate non-verbally and the ability to express [...]

GRC June 08

Graduate Research Conference June 08
This was my 2nd GRC presentation but officially my 3rd. My next presentation is my penultimate. For some reason I was not that nervous. I think it went quite well and my examiners thought so as well. I thought I would post my research presentation and document to see what my [...]

More Clive Dilnot

… theory into the process and final delivery. Dilnot states that in order for knowledge through design to become knowledge there needs to be a translation. An exegesis. Does it really? I’ve seen projects at a final examination that “speak for themselves” and demonstrate the knowledge acquired.
More later..
It’s now later. Dilnot’s statement of how we [...]

Practice based design and Academe–a critique

Recently, I stubbled upon an interesting article critiquing the very values of practice based research, specifically, research through design. Prof. Terry Rosenberg in “Designs on Critical Practice?” describes how design and other creative practices are being forced into academia’s “mould” to as he puts it “fit” into the epistemology of the sciences scholarship. I found [...]

The Boyer Commision Report

Through my past scrambling of information for the conference abstract I came upon a report concerning the needed changes in undergraduate education. The Boyer Commission, are a group of scientists, educators and designers who have come together to offer some insightful methods to strengthen the quality of university learning by stressing on the re-development and [...]

Levels of thinking about teaching (Part 2)

Biggs, j. Teaching for Quality Learning at University. 1999 The Society for Research into Higher Education.Levels of Thinking about Teaching
In this chapter Biggs explains three levels of teaching ‘theories’ that a teacher tends to go through in their careers.
Level 2:
John Biggs explains in this section that the teacher often looks at obtaining themselves with as [...]

Levels of thinking about teaching (Part 1)

 Biggs, j. Teaching for Quality Learning at University. 1999 The Society for Research into Higher Education.
Levels of Thinking about Teaching
In this chapter Biggs explains three levels of teaching ‘theories’ that a teacher tends to go through in their careers.
Level 1: Level one, is a time where the focus is “what the student is” therefore giving [...]

Assessment in Graphic Design Learning Experiences

Reflections from the conference paper “Using Assessment to Engage Graphic design Students in their Learning Experience”, Debra Ehmann, Swinburne University of Technology.
This paper generally discusses how the use of assessment in graphic design pedagogy can help create a link between a students engagement in their learning activities and the goals of the learning outcomes of [...]

Educational Concepts for Design Lecturers

In this paper Darrall Thompson from UTS, Sydney discusses the design of learning environments for design courses. It is particularly interesting to me in this stage of my research because it touches on some approaches to learning which might have been helpful when I was designing a graphic design curriculum in 2006.
Thompson first argues the [...]

Review: Design education

Design Schools 101Ellen ShapiroPrint, March 2004.
This article covers an overview of some challenges that are being faced now in graphic design education. Shapiro, quite frankly states the openness of discussion of this topic with various higher educations design institutions. Her main point was that these prominent institutions seemed to be caught in a tug-of-war act [...]