The first thing I did was print the article so I could interact with the text. My initial thought was to read through the text once to try and get an overview but I found myself rereading and spinning in circles. For me it was way to complex and dense just to give it a read through. I watched the video and that helped make more sense of it. I then stayed with youtube and found a video of Brenda Dervin giving a talk on sense making. After listening to her I felt had a good understanding and a better foundation and the article started to make better sense. Dervin is trying to teach us that there is a huge gap in communication and we need bridge that gap. These gaps can be created with the systems and social constructs that we have in place and the underlying assumptions she talks about. "Sense-making is seen, thus, as a generalizable methodology developed for the study of all situations that involve communications" ? I am still unclear on the methodology part and need to read through the exemplars again. If I had to teach this same reading content to a high schooler I would start with the youtube videos and the examples she gives in her talk, ie the librarian, computer sales clerk, and the doctor and cancer patient. Then have them read it in small chunks, maybe using a CLOSE read strategy, with opportunities to discuss. I know there are programs out there that assign a lexile to a text but I wonder if there is one that will adjust the text to a lower lexile? I am using a video instead of a diagram, hope that is ok. While watching the super bowl I saw this commercial for Rocket Mortgage. I showed my wife, who has gone through this program, and said "that commercial reminds me of Dervin". After an eye roll and a "Which one was Dervin?" she agreed.
I needed Keegan-Michael Key when I was going through the reading
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Marisabel Olguin
2/5/2018 06:47:52 pm
I am so glad you used that commercial as your example, it helped bring just a bit more clarity to the reading. The more I read others blogs the better I feel about being very confused at the beginning. I hadn't thought about using close reading strategies. I haven't been trained in that strategy but I am going to look into what it includes. Thanks.
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Jeff, you nailed it by using this funny commercial!! I loved it!
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