There are 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries around the world. The number of human languages spoken and the number of different dialects that exists in the world remain a mystery. Of these different forms of communication only a few languages are understandable to the greatest number of people, one of which is visual language. Paintings found in Egyptian caves, Mayan astronomical glyphs and the ancient Chinese pictographs are visual images that still continue to communicate to today’s historians. Visual language serves as an important form of cross cultural communication, but is key as well to navigating an increasingly image and multimedia-centered landscape of information. Many visual literacy research studies and projects have been conducted to provide further understanding in the importance of developing visual literacy skills in order to thrive in our fast-paced, networked 21st century world.
Visual Literacy … A picture is still worth a thousand words….
…..or maybe a million or so………….
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