IDEAS: Integrated Disciplinary Education for Academic Scholarship: Articles and Videos

This article reports on research that investigated how students’ critical thinking
skills can be developed through images.

This paper offers an analysis of the nature of perception and its relationship to thinking, using the psychology and epistemology of C.S. Peirce and John Dewey.

The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) curriculum and teaching method uses art to help students think critically, listen attentively, communicate, and collaborate.

The author examines the value of integrating visual literacy and critical thinking in teaching world history survey.

The writer discusses persuasive messages and visual literacy.

The authors conducted an experiment that compared embellished charts with plain ones, and measured both interpretation accuracy and long-term recall.

Examples are given of how design and technology education contributes to teaching aspects of the new taxonomy of graphicacy, and hence to the general education of children.

This article provides a framework for thinking about graphicacy as a form of communication.

This program looks at a society inundated with visual images.

This program takes a close look at the vital importance of visual language skills, how information overload is shortening the human attention span, the proliferation of iconographic communication, and implications for America’s education system

Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works—sharing her ability to “think in pictures,”" which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss.

Why do we see what we do? And how sure are we that what we are seeing is actually true or is it affected by something else?

. Through a series of fun, interactive games and illusions, we’ll show you that what you see shouldn’t always be trusted.

Dr Xenia Danos discusses the meaning of graphicacy and illustrates its importance in our everyday lives.

Tommy McCall talks about graphicacy, the next great leap forward at TEDx East. Filmed May 9, 2011 at the NY TImes Center.

Today, children are required to literate across a wide range of fields. Beyond print literacy, children must learn visual literacy and electronic literacy to name a few.