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In the Common Core State Standards, there was not much on visual literacy. Although there is a small section for it, it is not as big of a deal as other standards which I think is whack. Visual literacy is so important and needs to be included in the classrooms a lot more. It is not only something fun for the classroom, but it also is such a different way to interpret information in reading that students would benefit from! The book talked a lot about visual literacy in the media which I thought was interesting. It talked about how it is used in commercials and other types of the media for different ads and whatnot. I think it would be cool to teach more of that in the classroom. It’s interesting to see how different corporations and companies use visual literacy to persuade people to buy products. The different colors they use, the fonts they use, the type of wordings they choose, all of it is important in creating visual literacy. These different techniques would do the classroom and...

Oral and Visual Communication in the Classroom I thought that the NES pages of the assignment were extremely helpful in trying to find different ways as a teacher to get the students to listen in a positive way that benefits them and everyone else around them. Something that I took out of this reading was to focus on transitions. The text says that students should be able to listen to different transitions between ideas, but that can get difficult when it comes to reading because it is more linear than circular like in a classroom discussion. Something that can help when it comes to this is to take a minute after each central idea of the text or the discussion and to have the class get into small groups and kind of outline what they heard or what they read. I feel like getting into smaller groups to do this rather than doing it by oneself will help the students get MORE from what they read/heard. Also, I feel like this overall technique is just like 'active reading' in helpi...

Classroom Discussions There are a lot of important aspects when it comes to class discussions. Some teachers just give the students free reign to chat it out without any particular direction, and I think that this article helped give more direction to teachers to give to students that will benefit them. One of the important aspects that I thought will be super beneficial for students is the speech policy. The article talks about how forcing students to speak during discussion does not really do anything from them. It says that just because someone is not speaking, does not mean that their brain is not working hard and thinking about the content. A student should not be forced to talk or be told they will fail in the participation scale if they do not speak, because that only fears a child and honestly does nothing for their confidence and the discussion as well. This is something I appreciate because I am STILL in classes today where I am forced to speak or else I will not get the pa...

A Quantitative Investigation of Globalization In school, students normally have a decent amount of open and free space to basically go ham on whatever they want when they are writing. If given a topic in America, we do not necessarily need a particular structure and I admire that. In Japan, however, they crave structure. They need it. They need to know the word count, the structure, the spacing, everything. And although this is somewhat similar in America, it is more extreme in Japan. In Japan, everything is structured. Everything comes with a set amount of rules and requirements, where in America, students can normally write in a  more creative way, unless said so. This would be very difficult for a teacher in Japan because they would have to completely change up their routine and what they have been taught and given in order to let the kids write whatever they want, and how they want to. I feel like this could be so helpful for students in many different ways. I believe they wo...