Friday, May 4, 2007

The Value of Visual Learning

Visual learning techniques help students:Clarify thoughts

Students see how ideas are connected and realize how information can be grouped and organized. With visual learning, new concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood when they are linked to prior knowledge.

Organize and analyze information

Students can use diagrams and plots to display large amounts of information in ways that are easy to understand and help reveal relationships and patterns.

Integrate new knowledge

According to research, students better remember information when it's represented and learned both visually and verbally.

Think critically

Linked verbal and visual information helps students make connections, understand relationships and recall related details.

1 comment:

Londoner Phil said...

Treatment of a documentary



There are two main subjects I would like to make documentaries. One is humanity that enlarges viewers’ good nature. The other is historic documentary that guides viewers to get more eligible point of views on present matters resulted from the past events.

I made several documentaries about first subjects, humanity, such as ‘Aasung Yugi’ and ‘ Moran-jang’, both documentaries show the sprits of the masters and their passion, earnest and humanities on works. I am sure that these are good motivations to the viewers to think about the humanity in stonyhearted society.

It is the high time to focus on second subject and to make a documentary that suggests right historical point of view. I have been interested in history and human rights since I firstly made the documentary. Staying over a year in Japan to learn Japanese. I found how hard the Korean-Japanese live there. And it made me decide to create a documentary of Korean-Japanese’ hard lives and struggles to achieve human rights.

The Korean-Japanese are the descendants of the immigrants who were compulsory migrated to Japan by Japanese government during World War Ⅱ. They are different from other immigrants who move to America or Europe with their own free will. There are more than 500,000 Korean-Japanese live in Japan but they are still struggle from political and social discrimination.

In the beginning of the documentary, the narrator explains who Korean-Japanese are, historical background of their immigration and their position in Japanese society. Historic photographs of World War Ⅱ, poor Koreans who compulsorily migrated to Japan to become soldiers and factory workers for Japanese troops, a mushroom clouds of atomic bomb and painful Korean-Japanese who could not return to their home town after the World War Ⅱ.

Finishing summary of Korean-Japanese history the narrator introduces current situation of their lives in Japan. Several examples of discrimination to Korean-Japanese society will be presented as an interview of skit style. Showing some examples, the main subject will be present: Korean-Japanese’s right to vote. Statistical data from Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs with graphs and tables show the restriction on Korean-Japanese’s qualification for election and right to vote. The survey results support, which are public opinions about Korean-Japanese. In spite of current suffering, some NGOs and Korean-Japanese organization show their persistence to achieve the right to vote.

On the contrary, interviews of Japanese special interest group of the Right wing who are against allowing Korean-Japanese’s right to vote, illustrate Japanese conservatism. Citations of news, which are about the diet’s rejection to permanent foreign residents’ right to vote, also demonstrate conservative society. To compare with Japanese society, the examples of Ireland and Italy which allow permanent foreign residents right to vote.

In conclusion, the narrator insists the political and social equality of Korean-Japanese. It also suggests Japanese government’s consideration of distinctive historical background of Korean-Japanese’s immigration. Finally, to keep up with stream of globalization and supporting human rights, it proposes the allowance of Korean-Japanese right to vote.





SangHoon Baek