Difference Between Visual and Textbook

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Difference between Visual and Textbook CGD 218 Visual Literacy in Business Prof. Edgar Hodge By Alesia Smith January 28, 2013 Difference between Visual and Textbook In this paper it will show how different seeing can actually be through the eyes of a video as well as through words in the text book. The fact is that we have used visual literacy from the day we was born with the ability to process the things that we see through our eyes. Kennedy is not as expressive in his video as the textbook, mainly because the text book shows how the eyes work with graph detail. Actually the video expresses how the eye sees and process information. Visual literacy is the images that we see with our eyes, when a person first looks as something their eyes send it to the retina and then to the brain to process as Kennedy described in his video. Kennedy also shows the process by hand jester in the video. Whereas the text book shows us with pictures of the same process that Kennedy tells us about, pictures make a big difference in understand how the process actually works. . Kennedy then goes on to say that visual literacy is the ability to construct meaning from images. He also tells us that it is not a skill but a form of critical thinking that enhances your intellectual concept. He also tells that The International Visual Literacy Association adopted Debes's (1969) definition of visual literacy. Our text book tell us the same thing but goes farther to state what the IVLA definition is which states [that it is a group of vision-related competencies a human being can develop by seeing, and at the same time, having and integrating other sensory experiences. [These competencies] enable a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret the visible actions, objects, and symbols that he [or she] encounters . . . to Difference between Visual and Textbook

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