Visual learning

the family. The Lost in the Clouds figure also describes the significance of dreams being deferred. Unlike a book, art is a universal language. Art tends to catch people’s attention for long periods of time. Spoken language does not compare to the visual artwork that seems to speak to our inner soul. Thousands of years ago, mankind told stories through pictures drawn on cave walls. Artists have relayed history through drawings, paintings, architecture and sculptures. A variety of emotions and…

On Thursday, Nov. 17th, I attended the speech whose topic is Cross-Boundary Practice and Imagination in Contemporary East-West Artistic Creation, which is given by Leah Lihua Wong, a famous artist who has received several arts award in Ohio. Leah L. Wong was born in Qingdao, China. In her day, which is around 60s in China, there was no electronic products like we have today. However, she still has some hobbies such as collecting candy wrappers, cutting paper, and reading line drawings. She also…

There are many combinations that an individual may create, as stated above, as long as some degree of each of the conditions are portrayed, an art form as been detected. Because art is a form of communication between individuals, art leads to progression, a chance for society to evolve over time. As each era moves forward, greater understanding of life develops. Religion is a clear example of this, as religious insight has been present since the beginning of time. Due to this, in Tolstoy’s…

language, mathematical calculations, logical thought, and the analysis of detail. The right hemisphere instead controls the left side of the body, visual-spatial perception, music and artistic processing, emotional thought, and processes the whole (Carlson, 2014). In terms of processing visual information, the brain is organized contra laterally, meaning that visual information is received in the opposite hemisphere…

From the moment someone sets foot into the school realm, they are always asked “ What are you going to be when you grow up?”. This question stirs a variety of answers due to the personal differences between people in what they find of interests or what they are told they will become by big influences in their lives, such as their parents. As someone who has been unsure of what they want to become, my answer has been changing constantly. When I was younger I had my mind set to become a…

provoking. At the PAC session the panel explained how their majors/fields of interest could be related to sustainability. Personally, I have a curiosity in most subjects, however my major interests are in the arts. I am particularly in writing and the visual arts, although I have a passion for music as well.…

activities. The World Health Organization 's (WHO 2010) criteria for low vision: Low vision is a best-corrected visual acuity lower than 0.5 logMAR (Snellen 6/18) but equal to or more than 1.3 logMAR (3/60) in the better eye, or visual field corresponding to less than 20 degrees in the better eye. Blindness is defined as a best-corrected visual acuity lower than 1.3 logMAR or a visual field no more than10 degrees in the better eye with best correction. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is…

Imagine a ceiling covered in Styrofoam cups assembled together so intricately and catching the light so meticulously that the material used looks far more advanced than an everyday manufactured item. Imagine a giant cube of toothpicks being held together by just the weight of the other surrounding toothpicks, causing it to be so fragile and vulnerable yet so sturdy at the same time. Imagine a plethora of metal Slinky’s intertwined and entangled in such a way it looks as though they are wrestling…

defined as the ability to know the information needed to research the task, then analyzing the research you have done to see if it is credible or not, and applying the research to your own work (Wesleyan, 2016). Without information literacy in today’s learning, anyone could take someone else’s work, give them credit as a reliable source and everything the source could have written, be something that is either plagiarized or completely made up. The role information literacy plays in this is under…

Visual Agnosia The textbook defined visual Agnosia as an impairment in object recognition which can be caused by brain damage. Visual Agnosia is a brain disease that has no cure. In the video, Kevin talked about his issue of visual Agnosia. Kevin can identify colors, faces such as his children’s pictures but can’t be able to locate an object. Kevin plays guitar, he cannot read music but know how to construct music by listening to it and reconnect it with his guitar. Kevin’s visual Agnosia made…