Let the walls speak is a phrase that reveals several references to street art (graffiti).
I started my career as a teacher by promoting free ebooks. It was cheaper than buying books for my students.
My use of the phrase
"let the walls speak" came when I realized that many of my students don't have the patience to wade through ebooks.
Pages and pages of text. Instead, they need "poster quotes." Select a sentence, add an interesting photo,
The Clark "Two Factor Rule" was described by Richard E. Clark, a professor at USC. Dr. Clark creatd the Cognitive Tech Department because he wanted to show hwo to use technology to improve cognitive functions. In a phone call to Dr. Clark in February 2011, I asked him to desceibe "what are the essential elements of an effective poster"
His reply: "First, the poster has to grab your attention. Good graphic design and an image. Second, the poster's message has to lead to a change in behavior. There should be some sort of instruction to guide the learner to make that change."
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I gave him the example of a poster that was given away in the 1972 Environmental conference in Stockholm. That event produced or inspoired much of the legislation that produced results like the Clean Water Act in the USA. The poster that my father brought back from the conference read:
Ostrich politics does not protect the environment.
In the soil plant beans.
The upper part was yellow and the text was in blue letters.
the lower half of the poster had a blue background (same color as the letters in the upper half) and the letters were printed in the same yellow
The font was Arial or Helvetica and there was only the logo of the conference at the bottom of the poster.
The purpose of this blog is to support the work of generating posters that inspire the transformation of education. Abraham S. Fischler, former head of Nova University (which created the first distance education program for principals in the USA in 1971, before the Internet became popular), wrote that "Learning should be fun for the learner" and "Time is a variable" and "The Student is the Class" (a call for personal learning plans for every student). These phrases and others that support the spread of individualized and personalized learning are the heart of the "let the walls speak" campaign.
You are invited to download posters at the following locations
TinyURL.com/
https://www.mashallahnews.com/learning-on-wings/
For example you can get free ebooks at
TinyURL.com/FreeForFamily.
A free series was offered to a conference in 2017 in Ramallah.
You can download this electronic book as a PDF at the quick link TINYURL.com/MakeYourClassActivePalestine
The format of this short book is 5 x 8.
You can also download the large workbook at TinyURL.com/MakeYourClassActive. The format of the large workbook is 8.5 inches by 11 inches
A photo book, 5” by 8”, is for students who don’t like to read. The quick link is TinyURL.com/MakeYourClassActiveSTART.
You can also get the Postman Questions TINYURL.com/PostmanQuestions
See the questions in Arabic: TinyURL.com/PostmanQuestionsArabic
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End Note: If you want to see the full blog post, go to LINK: Here is the essential paragraph:
Clark’s Two-Factor Rule for Posters: I place these quotations on walls, I assemble them on a single page and lead a workshop with parents, I send the quotes home and ask parents to talk about the quotes with their children, I call each home and talk with the parents about what ideas they have after reading the quotes. In other words, posters (when properly formatted) help me confront questionable assumptions that students have about education (see Clark, 2004) and flip the classroom. The posters conform to Richard Clark's two-factor rule: a) posters should have an easily remembered analogy and b) posters should go beyond merely drawing attention to an issue and should give specific procedures to follow (Clark, personal communication, February 8, 2013).
