Visual+Literacy

** ﻿ Visual Literacy ﻿ **
==== After studying the PAT model, I now have a much better understanding of what “good” visual literacy entails, as well as “not so good.” Sadly, this image demonstrates several wrong doings. When looking at this photograph, I interpret the image as a message regarding American’s and their overconsumption of protein each year. Although this image is very vague and difficult to understand, it emphasizes theour vast consumption of hotdogs, big macs, and chickens. Clearly, protein is a necessity in the lives of every human being, but when fried in fatty oils and stripped of its pure nature, protein can become very harmful to our bodies. The PAT mode refers to three principles that the human mind uses to categorize and recognize information. When reflecting on the PAT model, contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity are particularly important. The first problem that I recognize is that I really don’t have a clear idea of what this is suppose to be telling me. When explaining what I did above, it was my entire hypothesis regarding this piece which laced evidence and clarity. The picture is not in any chronological order and fails to follow many of the five instructional functions of visual literacy. To sum this up, this picture is extremely unclear, and leaves the reader more confused after seeing it than they were to begin with. ====

Summary Visual Literacy is best described as the way that we sell our product to those viewing the "art." Some ways are better than others when putting something together, therefore, we use the PAT model to ensure that we are following the appropriate steps. I think that visual literacy is very important to understand and I enjoyed it a lot. I plan on using this in the classroom to demonstrate history through visual literacy.