Summary of Concepts from Readings, Make Sense of Readings applied to your Teaching and Learning.2/28/2019 After reading the first six chapters of The Visual Connection by Dr. Bobbe Baggio and the first couple of chapters of Developing Technical Training, by Ruth Colvin Clark, and Mind's Eye of the User by Brenda Dervin, I had many takeaways.
The Visual Connection:
-Human's use of information vs. information systems -study needs, images and satisfactions of the users -What users want, get and think about from systems -Theoretic net = a set of assumptions and propositions make sense of people in their everyday experiences. -Bridge the gap to help users in situations After reading the Brain book, I connected many of the same concepts as background knowledge. Ironically, I have been helping with the introductions to the staff meetings and that efficiency and effectiveness of trainings really applied to what I am experiencing currently. No one really loves staff meetings and I am looking back on the slides and presentations of the meetings and there are rarely any pictures or personal connections or allowances for teacher feedback to share and processes what happens in their classes to relate on a personal level. I realize that having more pictures and videos in the staff meetings would partially help to ease the tension in the room. Whether it be a joke or a teacher meme, we could all relate and start out the meeting with a laugh or a funny story. These readings also are relating to me what the real business world is like and how these types of thinking are preparing our students to be the CEO's and leaders of their own communities and we are laying the ground work for their future in leading others. Students are
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After reading part of Qualitative Research in Information Management by Jack Glazier and Ronald Powell, Chapter 6 From the Mind's Eye of the User: Sensemaking Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology by Brenda Dervin, the irony hit me. This one chapter of 25 pages made my eyes cross and my mind a bit coo-coo. I read it and took 3 pages of notes. I still had no idea on how to translate or tell someone else about what she meant. I went to my steady tutor 'Youtube University', as I call it. I tried to search it and two of the videos were typed summaries written and scrolled to music. It was definitely more easy to read the print and a little easier to understand parts of the content and it was much shorter and concise. Using this chapter alone, I derived that in 1972 Brenda Dervin studied and researched the human use of information versus information systems. What users want, get and think about from systems. These consist of the needs, images and satisfactions of the users. The idea of the theoretic net is a set of assumptions and propositions that make sense of people in their everyday experiences. Once I got the the situation, gap and uses diagram it helped me to understand the idea of different perspectives and self talk to a situation. People have their stories and life experiences and give meaning to those experiences. The idea gives insite from philosophy, social psychology, sociology and even Buddhism and meditation in some ways in how to relate to the eternal self and not just speaking from the ego. Sensemaking and situational awareness investigate to improve interactions between people and information. The component that I really liked was the internal versus external motivation component. So one of the diagrams I chose shows other researchers that studied in alignment with Dervin. I feel like no one could be as confusing as Brenda. In the second diagram it shows the perspective of many situational models. If I had to teach this to someone, especially a high school student, I would have to do a lot more research. I would use visuals, read the other authors and what they had in common and I am very visual, so anything in video form explaining it. I might use personal examples and situational stories to help connect to what Sensemaking is. The simplest way I can explain it is that Sensemaking was first used to focus largely cognitive activity of experienced situations as meaningful. It is a collaborative process of creating a shared awareness and understanding from various perspectives. Other Sources: Sensemaking on YouTube The Audiopedia on YouTube 4 Steps to Sensemaking Images: First picture was from www.epicpeople.com Second picture was from www.slideshare.net |
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