"Visual literacy is a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media."
In an interdisciplinary, higher education environment, a visually literate individual is able to:
• Determine the nature and extent of the visual materials needed
• Find and access needed images and visual media effectively and efficiently
• Interpret and analyze the meanings of images and visual media
• Evaluate images and their sources
• Use images and visual media effectively
• Design and create meaningful images and visual media
• Understand many of the ethical, legal, social, and economic issues surrounding the creation and use of images and visual media, and access and use visual materials ethicallyACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
From:
1. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.
2. JonBenét Ramsey. http://www.blogstodiefor.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/jonbenet-ramsey.jpg
3. New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam by Charles C. Ebbets, 1932.
Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century by 
Looking and Learning: Visual Literacy Across the Disciplines by 
