Literacy

Prepared by: Group 11

Joyce Ann Castronuevo

Diana Dolorian
Hannah Patricia Padasas
 Objectives:
1. Define arts and creative literacy
2. Identify the seven habits of highly creative people
3. Explain eye-hand coordination and some
associated disorders, interventions and
developments
4. Compare and Contrast visual and verbal creativity
5. Discuss aesthetics and three approaches from a
philosophical perspective
Creativity
process of having original ideas
that have value.
ability to see the world in new
ways. (Sun, et. al, 2019)

act of turning new and

imaginative ideas into reality.
(Naiman, 2011)
Creativity
Creativity is a combinatorial
force: the ability to tap into one’s
‘inner’ pool of resources, such as
knowledge, insight, information,
inspiration; and fragments in the
mind to combine them in
extraordinary new ways (Popova,
n.d. In Naiman, 2011)
Five key behaviors that optimize brain for discovery

1. Associating or drawing connections

between questions, problems, or ideas
from unrelated fields
2. Questioning or posing queries that
challenge common wisdom
3. Observing or scrutinizing the behavior of
others to identify new ways of doing
things
Five key behaviors that optimize brain for discovery

4. Networking or meeting people with

different ideas and perspectives
5. Experimenting or constructing
interactive experiences and provoking
responses to see what insights emerge
 “Creativity is the act of turning new and
imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves
two processes: thinking, and then producing.
Innovation is the production or implementation of
an idea. If you have ideas, but don’t act on them,
you are imaginative but not creative. “
- Linda Naiman

Retrieved from: Naiman, L. (2018, March 10). Seven Habits of Highly Creative people.
Seven Habits of Highly Creative People
1. Prepare the ground for creativity by cultivating a
relaxed, focused mind, providing sufficient time and
space, and fostering a desire for creative expression
and inspiration.
2. Plant seeds for creativity by focusing on what you
want to create, avoiding complaints, and setting clear
intentions for desired outcomes.
3. Live in the question by actively asking inquiries,
prioritizing curiosity over immediate answers, and
attentively considering questions posed by others.
Retrieved from: Naiman, L. (2018, March 10). Seven Habits of Highly Creative people.
Seven Habits of Highly Creative People
4. Feed your brain by cultivating interests that offer wisdom
and ideas, and develop the ability to make unconventional
connections between disparate elements.
5. Experiment and explore by following your curiosity,
experimenting with ideas, and learning from your mistakes to
improve quality of your creativity.
6. Replenish your creative stock by learning to be self-
nourishing, transforming hobbies, talents, and skills into
extraordinary potentials.
7. Liberate your creativity by embracing the clue to your
potentials and passion found in your child’s play.
Retrieved from: Naiman, L. (2018, March 10). Seven Habits of Highly Creative people.
Eye-Hand Coordination
• Eye-hand coordination is the coordinated control
of eye movement with hand movement and the
processing of visual input to guide reaching and
grasping along with the use of proprioception of
hands to guide the eyes.
•The ability of the vision system guide, and direct
the hands in the accomplishment of a given task.

Retrieved from: healthofchildren.com/eye-hand coordination

 Sub Topic 1

Examples of Eye-Hand Coordination

1. In writing
2. Typing on a keyboard
3. When driving
4. In sports

Retrieved from: healthofchildren.com/eye-hand coordination

 Sub Topic 2

Problems and Disorders Related to Poor Eye-Hand

Coordination
• Vision Impairment – loss of vision that makes it
hard or impossible to perform daily tasks
• Movement Disorders- impaired body movements
caused by variety of causes such as ataxia and
hypertonia

Retrieved from: healthofchildren.com/eye-hand coordination

 Sub Topic 3

Hand-Eye Coordination Development Stages

Between birth and three years
1. Between birth and three years of age, infants can accomplish the
following skills and can:
1.1 start to develop vision that allows them to follow slowly moving
objects with their eyes;
1.2 begin to develop basic hand-eye skills, such as reaching, grasping
objects, feeding, dressing;
1.3 begin to recognize concepts of place and direction, such as up,
down, in; and
1.4 develop the ability to manipulate objects with fine motor Skills.

Retrieved from: healthofchildren.com/eye-hand coordination

 Sub Topic 3

Between three and five years

2. Between three and five years of age, little children can:
2.1 continue to develop hand-eye coordination skills and a
preference for left or right handedness;
2.2 continue to understand and use concepts of place and
direction, such as up, down, under, beside;
2.3 develop the ability to climb, balance, run, gallop, jump, push
and pull, and take stairs one at a time; and
2.4 develop eye/hand/body coordination, eye teaming, and
Depth perception.

Retrieved from: healthofchildren.com/eye-hand coordination

 Sub Topic 3

Five to seven years

3. Children between five and seven years old can:
3.1 improve fine motor skills, such as handling writing using
scissors, etc.; Tools,
3.2 continue to develop climbing, balancing, running, Galloping
and jumping abilities;
3.3 continue to improve hand-eye coordination handedness
preference; and
3.4 learn to focus vision on school work for hours every day

Retrieved from: healthofchildren.com/eye-hand coordination

Visual Literacy
- John Debes coined the term in 1969
- According to Oxford Research
Encyclopedia, it is the ability to
interpret, negotiate, and make
meaning presented in the form of an
image.
Verbal Literacy
- Ability to respond effectively
and flexibly
- Divergent thinking
- Fluency, flexibility, originality,
and elaboration
Aesthetics
- Britannica defines aesthetics, also
spelled as esthetics, as the
philosophical study of beauty and taste.
- Despite philosophers' emphasis on the
terms beautiful and ugly, aesthetics
becomes an insignificant issue for
discussion in the description of what
appeals in nature.
Three Approaches to Aesthetics
According to Britannica;
1. it is the analysis of the "language of
criticism",
2. a philosophical study of certain minds,
responses, attitudes, and emotions that are
involved in aesthetic experience,
3. and the philosophical study of the
aesthetic object.
Thank you!