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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Tess Giner
2/16/2019 08:20:11 pm
I read this article more than a couple of times. I also found some very helpful videos on line. I found some images, but I could not for the life of me paste them to my weebly blog. How did you do this? I really appreciate the image you posted of the "Sensemaking Model" because it is such a great visual: clear and concise.
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Monica Knecht
2/18/2019 08:02:31 am
Tess, just like you pull over and add text, I pulled over and added an image box and dragged it in. I saved the image to my desktop so I could find it. Once the image box was in I inserted the picture from my desktop. Hope this helps.
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Caitlin Mitchell
2/17/2019 10:12:28 am
HI Monica!
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Rafael Garcia Avila
2/17/2019 11:35:30 am
Great blog Monica,
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Jona Sandau
2/17/2019 08:25:12 pm
Monica! Awesome blog! You did an amazing job of using external resources to build a better understanding of Derwin. I loved how you highlighted the collaborative process for shared understanding--which is what we all seem to be doing together with this piece. I also loved your idea of bringing personal experience into your teaching of this concept, I hadn't thought of that at all. Thank you for help in bringing more light to this complex piece!
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