Image: 'Visual Communication Poster' by Untitled-1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9729909@N07/5596487047
As a teacher of communication, visual communication is one component of my teaching. This picture conveys many things about visual communication. That it is holistic (i.e. you do not have to understand its parts to understand the whole), pattern-based, and can be conveyed in several different ways. This image would be a great way to start off my class in visual communication. Pictures are a great way to start a class: they can grab the attention of the students, and entice them to become curious about the subject.
The most obvious reason to include images while teaching is to accommodate visual learners. More than 60% of all students learn best with images. When an idea is illustrated through an image, it is bound to be absorbed better by these students. But there are other reasons too. The use of images empowers the teacher to explain the same idea in different ways. Using images is akin to the using a new language: the teacher has the freedom to express the additional ideas with the new language.
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