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As far as I can tell there was not a whole lot (or really anything) on visual literacy in the common core standards under the ELA literacy standards. I find this odd due to the importance of understanding visual literacy. The most relevant text I could find is the focus on understanding context. This is important for understanding literacy as outlined in the NES text to be aware what can be used where and for what type of presentation. The CCSS really drives the idea of the being aware of able to define the context of what is being shown. The NES text also pushes this ideal. I believe that these are important as teachers to make sure we understand to better help our students understand not just for academic purposed within the classroom but also for visual presentations that will appear outside classrooms for the rest of their lives that require the ability to effectively pick apart the image or images to understand how it is being used. In the NES text the many different ways that images are appealed to people are outlined which is really nice to be able to see for myself how these things are used to influence myself and how I need to be able to identify them to help my students identify them. To use visual literacy to the advantage of the classroom and teaching the elements of understanding it are something that hasn’t really occurred to me before this course. I always knew of using pictures or ads in presentations. I was also aware of “propaganda” (I think that’s the best way to define it) but I just never thought about the strategy of teachers when using or teaching images. Like what are they trying to get out of it? Working on my own visual literacy presentation and ready these texts makes me super excited for all the visual literacy text presentations to see all the different ideas and become better at presenting and understanding them for my own future classrooms.

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