TASK 1: DECODING PHOTOGRAPHS

AIMS

- Describe, analyse, interpret and evaluate photograps in a collaborative way working in international Jamboard teams.

- Develop visual literacy skills

- Develop critical thinking by applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information based on observation, experience, reflection and reasoning- decoding a photograph and by understanding how a photo can be spread and how the story behind it can have been manipulated.

- Encourage learners to think about diversity and discrimination and help them understand their own views and choices: Stories that Move (Developed by the Anne Frank House & partners.

- Construct meaning from images by understanding partners feelings and illustrating them.

👁 Jamboard TEAMS are on Slide 7

Read the presentation to understand the decoding process. You will find an example of the final task and the links you need to work on this TASK 1. You will complete the jamboards working in international teams.

International Teams JAMBOARDS

 1. Painters/Designers 

 2. DJs/Musicians 

 3. Photographers 

 4. Reporters/Writers 

 5. Film-makers 

 6. ICT experts/Engineers 

 7. Scientists/Botanists/Nurses 

 8. Historians/Researchers 

 9. Ticket inspectors 

10. Miscellaneous (psychologists, personal trainers, etc)

QUESTIONS

1. Look at the facts. What can you see?

2. How does it make you feel? What draws your eye immediately?

3. What is the image trying to tell us? What exactly is happening in the photograph?

Decoding Photographs- Friday Photographs.pdf

4. Evaluate: Title the work by synthesizing what you’ve learned

Students read/watch news about the photo and reflect on the issues depicted within a group discussion jamboard to evaluate it.

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This is part of the Teachers' worksheet (Newsletter 3) 

- Consider the following Qs: 

Who took the pic? Why? Did the girl give her consent? Was she in position to give consent? How is and has this image been used by others, dehumanzie, tokenize, spread single story narrative about Muslim woman?

- Before the “Evaluate” step: What happened when they found the Afghan girl some years later?

• Video by National Geographic: Finding the Afghan Girl
• Magazine Article by National Geographic: A Life Revealed
• The Wire: You'll Never See the Iconic Photo of the 'Afghan Girl' the Same Way Again

RESULTS

Contributions of students working in ten international teams

VIDEO

SUMMARY