Certainly, many people in our industry talk about the use of comics as a visual thinking approach.  In fact, Neil Cohn, Kevin Cheng, and Scott McCloud are all going to approach that exact topic from various angles at VizThink ‘08.  A December 26th, 2007 article in the New York Times describes taking it one step farther…having kids create their own comics as a form of literacy education.  Here’s one quote from the article:

“For kids who may be struggling and for kids who may be new to the English language, that visual sequence is a very powerful tool.” — Michael Bitz

For the full text, go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/education/26comics.html?ex=1199336400&en=8bb06da662e5d9c8&ei=5070&emc=eta1

To find out more about using comics as a visual thinking approach, register now for VizThink ‘08 at:
http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html

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