Visual literacy

Today in art we talked a lot about different kinds of literacy. we talked about text literacy, visual literacy, network literacy, and education literacy. Text literacy was things like stuff we read in books magazines etc... Visual literacy, if i can remember correctly, is stuff we see and draw a message from. I guess an example would be a stop light. We learn that green means go, yellow slow down, and red means stop. There are no words that tell us what these mean. When we see these colors we automatically know what it means. Or when someone puts their finger over their mouth you know they mean to be quiet. There are no words involved, rather we read the sign and no what it means. Network Literacy i believe he said it means like the internet and text and phone etc... We also talked about education literacy. This is all about literacy done for school as well as things teachers teach. I don't completely remember all of the lecture too well but i do remember that we watched a video on visual literacy. It talked a lot about the things we see on tv and how the media affects the way we see things. We also watched clips from the movie called the reader. In the end, the girl would rather admit to writing a letter and committing the crime than for everyone to find out that she couldn't read. Overall, we talked about all the different kinds of literacy and how education literacy maybe disappearing due to all the other kinds of literacy. I don't believe education literacy will ever disappear. I just can't imagine being taught by a computer can be more effective than being taught by a teacher. As far as i'm concerned, education literacy will be around till the end of my life at least.