Six Modes of Visual Learning (developed by the Polaroid Education Program)

1. Exploring: the use of objects or pictures to identify and differentiate properties and their relationships to other properties. Similarities, differences, longer, shorter, tall, short, big, small, same, different, discriminate between letter and number shapes b, d, 2, 5.

2. Recording: sketching, drawing, photographing, video-recording. Can develop the ability to sequence events in time, understand transformations, and improve memory through chaining of events. The ability to put together visual memories or actual recordings is directly tied to telling and interpretting stories in all forms.

3. Expressing: acting, sketching, drawing, photographing, and video-recording to express feelings and emotions. The ability to identify emotions and to display different emotions in a variety of forms. Help interpret stories in all forms including forms beyond visual to include text, punctuation, sounds, and colors.

4. Motivating: Celebrating student's accomplishments. Verbal encouragement, specific praise, and social recognition by students as well as teachers. Labeling students' creations and preserving them so that they are inviting to students over time and give legitament recognition to the creators.

5. Communicating: interpret stories from different points of view and create their own stories by acting, sketching, drawing, photographing, and video-recording.

6. Imagining and Creating: speculate and create alternative ideas and events to include in drama, sketches, drawings, photographs, and videos. Telling alternative endings to stories, interpreting what a story looks like and create the actions and images in a variety of mediums.

Dr. Robert Sweetland's Notes ©