MIKiR’s approach to developing Visual Literacy Skills for PGMI Students at UIN STS Jambi through online lectures

Abstract

Visual literacy is determined by one’s reading comprehension, visual literacy is always found in our environment, lecturers need to provide opportunities for students to get activities that can develop their visual literacy skills, and it is hoped that these visual skills can be taught to MI / SD students. One of the activities that can support visual literacy is the MIKiR approach. MIKiR stands for Experiencing, Interaction, Communication, and Reflection. Experiencing activities such as students observing, doing experiments, making things. Interaction such as discussing, asking, and answering questions, explaining the results of group work. Communication such as conveying work results, telling stories, expressing opinions. Reflection is like writing or mentioning what was learned today and what was not understood. Online lecture activities carried out with the MIKiR approach are able to develop student visual literacy such as students being able to present messages in text into visual forms and students being able to transform visual messages into written text. The implication of this research is that students are able to develop their visual literacy skills and students are able to choose an appropriate learning approach in improving the visual literacy of students.