"What am I looking at?!"

This is one of the funnest assignments I had to do. I was a little confused about what it is I was doing. I was having so much fun looking at the images and analyzing the connections that I never realized how powerful this strategy was in engaging the learner. I liked that we were pushed to could look at parts of the image and this in turn pushed us to dissect it. All of this without explicitly saying it.

The first thing that I learned from this activity is how easily we gravitate towards images. It made me reflect about my own use of images in the classroom and evaluate if I was truly using them to their fullest potential in engaging the class. It also made me realize the amount of information that we can include in the images. It reminded me that different people have different preferences and in the same way that I was drawn to the images and colors some others might have been drawn to the words. This too made me reflect on my own class make up and how different parts of my class are focusing on different parts of my anchor charts. Some changes that I made were: include more images to support my anchor charts, and pay attention to the words and organization of the charts.