Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.

On of the principles I base my work on is Universal Design in Learning. We pay greater attention to things that move. We pay attention to and remember images. Animation combines these and there for is a powerful tool for a teacher. This is one of the foundations of universal design in learning. The more ways to access information the more likely there will be success in learning. Text, sound, images, animation should be a part of every learning environment if we wish to increase the likely hood that students will be engaged with the material, paying attention and learning.

The following are some quotes that caught my attention.

“We actually experience our visual environment as a fully analyzed opinion about what the brain thinks is out there.” (pg 225)

“…researchers have known for more then 100 years that pictures and text follow very different rules. Put it simply, the more visual the input becomes the more likely it is to be recognized and recalled.” In one experiment “picture recognition was reliably retrieved several decades later.” (pg 233)

“If information is presented orally, people remember about 10 percent, tested 72 hours after exposure. That figure goes up to 65 percent if you add a picture.” (pg 234)

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