Matthew Lovett

(ID# 20566522)

Revised Proposal
Original question: Is it possible to understand concepts of writing through other visual means instead text?

There must be surveys that targeted how if books are essential nowadays to learn about concepts of
writing. Nowadays, less people read books, so I find it very had to believe that most children nowadays learned
how to read from books. In fact, when I grew up, I don’t remember reading that many books but that’s probably
because I didn’t find them interesting or associated them with work. But people learn how to read regardless so
there must be other ways to people learn concepts. I am thinking many books have gotten out of style but maybe
not reading. I think simply online reading has replaced normal books, like amazon kindle and such. It makes
more sense; books take up space and having a whole collection of novels on your device is better and more
compact. I remember when I was little, a lot of concepts I learned were from movies. I am interested to see how
my childhood and the experiences I had affected the way I learned reading and writing because I was a very
visual person I didn’t really appreciate books and text as I do now.

Sources:

 Academic:
o Gitomer, Drew H., and Courtney A. Bell, editors. Handbook of Research on Teaching, 5th
Edition ed., American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC, 2016,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1s474hg

o This source is an academic book my Drew H. Gitomor, which goes in depth about the study of
teaching and learning. It gives a sizable array of subjects starting from the records of teaching
to technological and literacy issues. In every authoritative chapter, the authors condense the
state of the field whilst offering conceptual overviews of essential subjects associated to analyze
on teaching.

o Mr. Gitomer is a credible source because there are many moemnts in the book where he
mentions different studies that have been performed by various university about how different
methods of teaching can affect the young impressionable mind of a child. Mr. Gitomer also
writes with a very clear and propelling way of demonstrating his concepts, so it is obvious to me
that he is very knowledgeable of the subject. This relates to my question in that in analyzes the
vehicle in which knowledge is transmitted to us, which is by teaching. I am questioning whether
teaching through a visual mean is just as affective as through text. This book has shown me
that the way information is given to you greatly affects how you process it.
 Popular:
o Alver, Rebecca. “How Important Is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas?” Edutopia, 4 Aug.
2010, www.edutopia.org/blog/literacy-instruction-across-curriculum-importance.

o The source that I found is an internet non-academic article by an educational foundation on

their website Edutopia which I found searching Google. It is titled, "How Important is Teaching
Literacy in all Content Areas?", written by Rebecca Alber, an Instructor at UCLA's Graduate
School of Education and Literary Specialist. The main point of the article is that it is equally
important to encourage other forms of literacy in an educational environment other than the act
of listening. Alber goes on to examine different academic subjects such as math, history,
science, and art and how literacy plays a part in each and how teaching literary skills is not
solely the responsibility of English instructors

o I can safely say my source is credible because the author is a professor of a very prestigious
university and an expert in her field as well as a consulting editor for the website. Included in
the article are a variety of links to other pages of the website which serve as guides for teachers
to create a better learning environment for students to improve their literacy based on different
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forms; writing, speaking and reading. This connects to my question because it very much about
the classroom learning environment and how each child develops differently through different
means of literacy.

 Video:
o Siriboe, Keisha. “Why We All Need to Start Reading Aloud to Our Kids.” Youtube, uploaded
by TEDx Talks, 14 July 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsAtwkHRorY.

o This video is of a presentation by a literary researcher Keisha Siroboe, who shares insightful
studying behaviors that parents, educators, and involved adults can follow inside their lives in
addition to withinside the lives of children. Drawing from international training coverage
tendencies and her very own research, she advocates for greater parent-baby analyzing
aloud to sell parent-baby bonding in addition to powerful literacy development.

o Ms. Siroboe is a credible source because she works with the Word Educational Research
Association, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the American
Educational Research Association to cultivate student leadership within educational research
and policy development. Both organizations are dedicated in improving the learning of
children and the ways children are taught literacy, she works closely with both and has
participated in many observations of how the way literacy is taught to children and how it
affects their way of thinking. This relates to my question because it shows me there is not
simply visual and text formats in which to demonstrate literacy, but there is also audio. This
hadn’t dawned on me until I watched this presentation and now, I have a new perspective in
which to approach my question knowing that there are possibly other means which I have not
thought of or explored.

My Next Steps:

Key words I will use to continue my search are “visual”, “literacy”, and “learning”. I will most likely look
into finding more academic sources such as in books and professional articles, meaning I’ll stop by the library at
some point. Other questions that I have thought of are what is and isn’t allowed in the classroom for children to
learn? Are more visual approaches to learning looked down upon the education? If so, who decided that
administrators, teachers, parents, government? What I hadn’t considered before was the implication of other
forms of teaching and how almost every teacher no matter the subject is an English teacher in some shape or
form. I have grown a greater respect for the teachers I’ve had in the past.