Reading Blog #1

I found this article very interesting to read especially as a Gen Z who grew up with practically unrestricted access to the internet growing up. Even now after classes when I go home the best way I decide to unwind is to immediately get on my phone and look through a myriad of unconcentrated images. This article was the first time I learned of “Bain d’ Images” and was able to reflect on how often I am looking at this excess of images and media. I found especially interesting the time period that this article came out being of the early 2000s, to when I was a child that this article was worried about. I think without a doubt as an adult I have a mild addiction to social media and as a whole maybe my ability to understand visual literacy has been targeted. Just for myself, I find it hard or almost impossible to visualize things in my brain, which was one of the hopes of teaching visual literacy in schools. I guess I don’t know is just a me thing or an offshoot of growing up in the saturated world of imagery. In the latter half of this writing, it goes into detail about why we should be teaching Visual Literacy in our own schools. It made me realize that growing up this was never an aspect of my class. Or more so, as an education major, I imagine it would be greatly beneficial to my future students to teach Visual Literacy, especially for humanities.