“neither words nor numbers nor diagrams are simpler or more complex, superior or inferior. They are only more suitable or less suitable for particular purposes"
This made me think about the recent Curriculum and Assessment Review's report.
Delving into my GA Presidents blog following a couple of email contacts to ask for help with something else, I came back across an article by W G V Balchin (a former GA President) and Alice Coleman and this diagram from Balchin's Presidential Lecture.
In it, oracy is mentioned as requiring a greater focus in schools.
This is described in the diagram above as 'articulacy': the ability to be articulate when speaking, which is important.
A greater part though is dedicated to graphicacy, and perhaps we need more of this: particularly the ability to be critical of images which are being made with AI and other sources.
Balchin, W. G. V., & Coleman, A. M. (1965, November 5). Graphicacy should be the fourth ace in the pack. The Times Educational Supplement. (Rpt. in The Cartographer, 1966, 3 (1), 23–28).
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