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SHIGERU MIYAGAWA: MIT
recently did a study

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of future of MIT education.

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And right at the top,
what we have to do

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is to teach teamwork
and leadership

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above technical skills.

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And the neat thing
about getting students

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to work with visual
materials, is

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that because there's so much
information, that you've

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got to work in teams.

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Just having one
perspective is interesting,

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but having two perspectives
is really interesting.

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And having multiple perspectives
on the same material

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is just extraordinary,
and people debate.

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This is something else, the
idea of critical thinking.

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You really debate based
on whatever evidence

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you can find in the image,
and historical and cultural

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knowledge that you gain from
your readings and the video.

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And so the idea of teamwork
really comes into play.

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And you can see people
playing leadership roles.

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And people sort of switch
leaders and leadership

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as they go from one
image to the next,

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depending on what they feel
comfortable talking about.

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Here's some things to keep
in mind about incorporating

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visual materials.

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The first thing that one should
know, we know this already,

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is that young people are
exposed to visual materials

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by the ton on a daily basis.

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And yet, they are never
taught how to interpret them.

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What happens with visual
materials, is that you go in,

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you react emotionally,
and then you come out.

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Without carefully
analyzing the content.

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Unlike written material.

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Written material, you have
to go through word by word

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and think about what is this?

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What does this say?

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And so it's critical that we
teach how to read visuals.

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That's one point.

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The second point is that there's
a ton of visuals out there.

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You have to curate them.

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You can't just throw students
into this collection of visuals

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without some sense of knowing
where those visuals come from.

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If you want students
to publish the visuals,

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then you have to
think about copyright.

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And students should be
taught about copyright.

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What things you
can and cannot do.

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So these are all
21st century skills

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that you can teach
with visual material.