Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(1)

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 7 they have pondered what counts as knowledge worth knowing, which forms of expression are valid, and who gets to choose. From Plato, who thought that writing was an "external crutch" that "led to the deterioration of human memory" (Gee, 1988, p. 196) to traditionalist defenders of the Great Books who believe that "To mess with the canon [is] to mess with civilization itself," (Krystal, 2014), to those who continue to nominate Bob Dylan for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year, everyone has an opinion about what counts as literacy. This battle continues to rage across continents, across university campuses and across elementary school hallways. It's the five-paragraph essay versus the graphic novel versus the PowerPoint versus the finger painting. Of all communicative systems we use to make meaning, (written, visual, spatial, tactile, gestural, audio, spoken, etc.) which are worthy of a spot on the syllabus? 39

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