Reflection to “Life of the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education”

My reflection to “Life of the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education” is one hundred percent agreed! What first struck out to me was when the author stated, “the way we are educating is based on nineteenth-century ideas and methods. Here we are, entering the twenty-first century, and you look at our schools and ask, ‘Why are we doing things in this ancient way?’ Our system of education is locked in a time capsule.” I couldn’t agree more with this. Everything in today’s generation deals with technology. Everything is becoming touch screen. Schools are slowly adapting to having their textbooks as ebooks. It’s crazy when you really think about it. The biggest thing is to teach communication in all forms. Yes, today you see people texting all day with their phone in their hands and very few actually know how to communicate well. So with that being said, it’s important to teach communication. In a classroom, your students could communicate through any subject really whether it’s music, through the rhythm of the song or in english, through the writing of their story. As I kept reading this article I became more and more intrigued with it. The last section, “Do you think the education field will get your attention” really caught my eye. The author was telling us that the problem is that people don’t get the bigger picture, which is very true. People don’t seem to understand how important education actually is. A country as a whole survives on its education system. Without education, how would the president be running our country as a whole. I liked this line, “The society that has a great educational system becomes the prominent society because that’s the way the human race survives.” As I said before, without the education system, then our country would NOT survive!