I speak with Laura Kujo, a museum education consultant and curriculum developer. She introduces us to Visual Thinking Skills. How to teach your kids critical thinking, visual literacy, and language skills through art by looking and asking three questions. An alternative to simply reading all the text. We talk about challenging educational norms and ways to enjoy your trip to the museum.
In his 1997 article Thoughts on Visual Literacy, Philip Yenawine describes visual literacy as
“…the ability to find meaning in imagery. It involves a set of skills ranging from simple identification (naming what one sees) to complex interpretation on contextual, metaphoric, and philosophical levels. Many aspects of cognition are called upon, such as personal association, questioning, speculating, analyzing, fact-finding, and categorizing. Objective understanding is the premise of much of this literacy, but subjective and affective aspects of knowing are equally important.”
Visual Thinking Strategies Website https://vtshome.org/
Resource for Parents and Teachers https://www.watershed-ed.org/