What you see and hear is filtered through who you are. Each person has a different perspective. Your perspective can be influenced by the physical environment: where you are standing, the weather, or the time of day. It can also be influenced by one’s mood, by cultural filters, or by past experiences. When you understand what you think and feel and even see and hear is impacted by human experiences, you begin to understand how difficult it is to arrive at pure fact.
Technology
has an opportunity to impact human ways of knowing, thinking, and expressing.
In this Discussion you will experience the same story in multiple formats: the written word, the spoken word, and video. When you begin to add photos or manipulate images, is this changing your experience or enhancing or distorting your
reality
?
Consider the imagery you created in your mind as you interacted with the written version of
The Open Window
. Describe this imagery and discuss whether it helped you understand the story. Did the imagery or imagined tone change when you listened to the audio? How? Which medium did you enjoy the most?
Now, do the same exercise with Sojourner Truth's speech in text and as interpreted by Cicely Tyson in video form. Which medium did you prefer and why?
Comparing the forms you preferred in each case, what might that tell you about how you learn?
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What you see and hear is filtered through who you are. Each pers.docx
1. What you see and hear is filtered through who you are. Each
person has a different perspective. Your perspective can be
influenced by the physical environment: where you are
standing, the weather, or the time of day. It can also be
influenced by one’s mood, by cultural filters, or by past
experiences. When you understand what you think and feel and
even see and hear is impacted by human experiences, you begin
to understand how difficult it is to arrive at pure fact.
Technology
has an opportunity to impact human ways of knowing, thinking,
and expressing.
In this Discussion you will experience the same story in
multiple formats: the written word, the spoken word, and video.
When you begin to add photos or manipulate images, is this
changing your experience or enhancing or distorting your
reality
?
Consider the imagery you created in your mind as you
interacted with the written version of
The Open Window
. Describe this imagery and discuss whether it helped you
understand the story. Did the imagery or imagined tone change
when you listened to the audio? How? Which medium did you
enjoy the most?
Now, do the same exercise with Sojourner Truth's speech in text
and as interpreted by Cicely Tyson in video form. Which
medium did you prefer and why?
2. Comparing the forms you preferred in each case, what might
that tell you about how you learn?
