A picture is worth a thousand words: a cross-curricular approach to learning about visuals in STEM

• Autores: Merilyn G. Carter
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 29, no. Extra 4, 2013, págs. 822-828
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Visuals are a central feature of STEM in all levels of education and many areas of employment. The wide variety of visuals thatstudents are expected to master in STEM prevents an approach that aims to teach students about every type of visual that theymay encounter. This paper proposes a pedagogy that can be applied across year levels and learning areas, allowing a school-wide,cross-curricular, approach to teaching about visuals, that enhances learning in STEM and all other learning areas. Visuals areclassified into six categories based on their properties, unlike traditional methods that classify visuals according to purpose. Asvisuals in the same category share common properties, students are able to transfer their knowledge from the familiar to unfamiliarin each category. The paper details the classification and proposes some strategies that can be can be incorporated into existingmethods of teaching students about visuals in all learning areas. The approach may also assist students to see the connectionsbetween the different learning areas within and outside STEM.