14. Following the Thread

Found some good BBC learning videos that were a good reference of what the standard was for animations and abstract visualisation learning. This could be an important reference for curriculum learning as well as the bitesized guides to get a rule of thumb as to what age students are exposed to topics Framwork? This would be invaluable to my demographic study, and thus how it would effect the visual style/ complexity of the topics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/covalent-bonding-and-the-periodic-table/10667.html

I have also struck gold in my research of journals! After a lot of tracking down I finally paid a small fee and gained a copy of Metaphor and Thought by United States of America: Cambridge University Press. The Chapter "The shift from metaphor to analogy in western science" was especially useful with great insigtits into how the mind processes information.



A Find that has proved very useful as its one of a few sources that has done experiments within the educational system to see if analogical or metaphorical learning aids can help with the absorption of information.

Fun-Analogy Train

The imagery uses concrete images (train cars) were used to represent abstract ideas” (Spezzini, 2010) (see figure 1) therefore by “bridging from the known (train cars) to the unknown (phonological concepts)” I think that despite the lack of high-end visuals the train is a great notion on account of two reasons:

1. The train, is procedural as is speech and its a direct connection 

2. the carriages are also directly connected, though not to the degree of the first point. 

I feel that there is still coding of information within the image that will need to be remembered and not as natural as a source concept and target concept that have more accessible commonalties. 

From this I would like to take the core of the idea, and see if I can create my own concept that has these more natural communicates  This could really visually form a solid base for recall of information. If this was proved to be true then it would hold up to the requirements of the framework, in that it would be a highly emotive viusal image with information embedded within it.

Spezzini, S. (2010). Fun-Analogy Train [digital image]. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 4 (2), pp. 7.