What are your mental processes for figuring out Dervin's article? What was your meta-cognitive process? How did you make sense of it? What is she trying to teach? How would you assign this article to a high schooler? I, like many others, had a difficult time reading this article by Brenda Dervin, titled "The Mind's Eye of the User". I found myself having to reread sentences to make sense of what she is saying. I had to take detailed notes for clarity. I also found it unfortunate that I didn't understand her point of the article until I was almost finished reading it. However, with all that being said, I did find some interesting take-aways. For example, I connected to "sense created at a specific moment in time - space by one or more humans. Information is not seen as something that exists apart from human behavioral activity" (pg. 63). This connected me to my thoughts about relationships and human interactions. I know that I connect information to my experience. I learn more from interacting with others, talking with others and/or observing others. Secondly, I also appreciated the suggestion of flipping the script. Dervin states, "...that human use of information and information systems needs to be studied from the perspective of the actor, not from the perspective of the observer" (pg. 64). If we look at teaching our lessons through the eyes of our students, we will design lessons that are relevant to them. Thusly, they are motivated to learn and will do so. Lastly, I related to the "gap" assumption. Reality can change at any given moment. A gap is created. "However, since much of human life is inherently unpredictable, much of human behavior involves creating new responses" (Dervin, pg. 67) If I were to design a lesson for high school students, using Brenda Dervin's article, I would front load the article with some of the jargon she uses. I would also explain that this is a challenging article to read, especially online. So, I would have printed copies ready for them to annotate. I would advise them to have out their phone for google definitions, a highlighter and a pencil for annotating their article. I would have them read the article over a given amount of days. Then I would plan to have them peer review and discuss what they read. I would form groups and jigsaw the Exemplars. Each group would do a mini presentation as their overall project.
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AuthorMy name is Kimberlee Nelson. I am a mother of two and a 3rd grade teacher at Irene M. Snow Elementary School, in Napa. Archives
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