Center for Teaching & Learning at The University of Georgia
Center for Teaching & Learning at The University of Georgia
The Shift to the Visual | ||
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One hundred and eighty-three years ago there was one photograph in the world. How many are there today? In 1905 there was one movie theater in America. In 2009, YouTube serves up over 100 million videos every day on screens of every size in our homes, offices, cars, markets, and pockets. Can anyone doubt that we now orbit an historically new cultural center of gravity—the visual? Print is neither dead nor moribund, but it now must compete with purely visual communication modes that sometimes seem to overwhelm it. This shift to the visual may have a profound impact not only on culture but also on thought and understanding. As individuals we can see this in our own lives, and as educators we need to understand what it means to teaching and learning. How will pedagogy change for a nation of visual learners? Is the life of the mind necessarily tied to the print-based abstraction of ideas, or is the phrase ‘in the mind’s eye’ now more epistemology than metaphor? The premise of this FLC is that faculty may welcome an opportunity to explore what this new emphasis on the visual means. A partial list of issues to consider might include visual culture studies, visual knowing, the impact of motion pictures on education, how we can use visual media more effectively, how we can create visual media, and the shifting role of the University as it becomes a disseminator of multimedia content. For more information, contact David Noah at noah@uga.edu. Dr. Noah is the Coordinator of Emerging Technologies at the Center for Teaching & Learning. His background includes instructional technology and art education. |
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