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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2016/01/photo-detectives_connecting_the_cross-cultural_with_the_cross-curricular.html

J. Sara Klatchko writes, “Knowing how to decipher an image—visual literacy—is a vitally important skill. It encourages young people to slow down and pay attention; to step back from the hyper skimming of the internet age, to look closely, to observe, to engage—skills that will set students down a path of deeper learning for a lifetime. Visual literacy is about understanding what we see—with our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.”

Read how she got young students “reading” photos in a photojournalism workshop and how you can apply her techniques in your classroom in this article: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2016/01/photo-detectives_connecting_the_cross-cultural_with_the_cross-curricular.html