Picture-Perfect Generation:
Visually Stimulated or Visually Literate?

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ELI Web Seminar, September 15, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Picture-Perfect Generation: Visually Stimulated or Visually Literate?

Special Guest

Susan Metros
Deputy CIO, Associate Vice Provost for Technology-Enhanced Learning, and Professor of Design and Clinical Education
University of Southern California

Susan E. Metros is associate vice provost for technology-enhanced learning and deputy CIO at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She also holds professorships in design and clinical education. Prior to this appointment, she held positions at the Ohio State University. At USC she leads the academic community in integrating new and emerging educational technologies into teaching, learning, research, and outreach. In her role as educator and designer, she teaches courses on new literacies and has served as principal designer on several international award-winning multimedia and web-based projects. She also is a faculty member for EDUCAUSE's Management Institute and is active on numerous international and national boards, committees, and task forces including the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Advisory Board, which she also chairs. She has published and presented widely on innovative leadership, knowledge management, visual and digital literacy, and the role of technology in transforming education to be engaging, interactive, and learner-centered. Metros earned an MFA in graphic design from Michigan State University.

Summary

Julie Little, interim director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, will moderate this web seminar with Susan Metros. Metros will argue that IT professionals and educators must take leadership and responsibility for introducing new literacies into teaching, learning, research, and outreach to better prepare a visually literate citizenry.

Today’s youth are visually stimulated, but hardly literate, in engaging in a vocabulary of design and the language of images. To educate and engage this new breed of learners, institutions of higher education are revisiting and revising the basic tenets of a general education by asking, What does it mean to be literate in today’s visually saturated society?

Additional Resources

Susan Metros and Kristina Woolsey, Visual Literacy: An Institutional Imperative, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 3 (May/June 2006), pp. 80–81.
Ron Bleed, ELI Explorations: Visual Literacy in Higher Education, August 2005
Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy
Digital Visual Literacy
ELI’s Learner-Centered Concepts and Interaction and Engagement Topic Pages
ELI’s Learners Interest Area, with Topic Pages for:

Information Literacy/Fluency

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