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The Eye Generation Prefers Not to Read All About It

Members of a generation that experts say acquires more information through images than text, Max Simon, left, Aerial Longmire, Alex Perez and Tom Eisman film scenes for their movie at AFI Silver Theatre, where a free screening will be held Monday.
Members of a generation that experts say acquires more information through images than text, Max Simon, left, Aerial Longmire, Alex Perez and Tom Eisman film scenes for their movie at AFI Silver Theatre, where a free screening will be held Monday. (By Carol Guzy -- The Washington Post)
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"We've already seen him," somebody says, after whizzing through scores and scores of portraits.

"We said no to her," says someone else.

* * *

Loanne Snavely, a librarian at Penn State, was on a panel at this summer's gathering of the American Library Association in Washington titled: "Eye to I: Visual Literacy Meets Information Literacy." She and other librarians discussed "the connections between visual and information literacies." They exhorted colleagues to get "beyond traditional literacy; you know, reading and writing."

Like Kathy Krauth, Snavely believes that visual education should be expanded and enhanced. Textual information, Snavely says, has been the primary focus of libraries in the past, but with "so much graphical communication integrated into the huge wave of social networking our culture is experiencing, we need to broaden our focus to include images of all kinds." * * *

Scene 4: Schwartz leaves the moviemaking students alone in the classroom for a while. They talk about "Lord of the Flies" as they wait for the teacher's return.

"Piggy died," says Max Simon.

"Spoiler alert," Kit says.

Now they don't have to read the book, someone says.

"It was a book?" asks someone else. Fade to black.


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