IDEAS: Integrated Disciplinary Education for Academic Scholarship: Web Resources

The American Society for Innovation Design in Education Blog.

Keynote speakers Hall and Russac discuss good design for community college students.

Good design of information delivers content that is engaging to the eye without becoming a distraction. It guides our attention through carefully controlled and selected visual components; it retreats to the background, enabling the purpose of the finished product to come forward.

Graphicacy marries the essential skills of decoding and encoding to embrace a range of pictorial proficiencies.

Using one's visual imagination to approach educational problems (whether historical, literary, mathematical, or scientific) can yield tremendous dividends in student collaboration and engagement.

Definition of and research on visual thinking strategies.

The Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching provides resources for integrating visual thinking in your teaching.

Vanderbilt University Professor Derk Bruff shares some blogs on visual thinking.

VTS is an inquiry-based teaching strategy for all grade levels. You do not need any special art training to use this strategy. The goal of VTS is not to teach the history of a work of art but, rather, to encourage students to observe independently and to back up their comments with evidence.

Philip Yenawine, former education director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and co-creator of the curriculum outlined in Visual Thinking Strategies (Harvard Education Press, 2013), writes engagingly about his years of experience with young students in the classroom. He reveals how the VTS curriculum was developed, and demonstrates how teachers are using art to increase a variety of skills.

Teaching with infographics series from the Learning Network of the New York Times.