The only way I could make sense of it was to take notes. When I write down my thoughts and what I understad then it starts to make sense. This was a hard article to read and understand; with that said what I understood was that sense making is how an individual reacts during a specific event in time . That same individual may have a different reaction at a different time or if circumstances change. The overall theme I got was that communication was key between people and cultures. That communication changes as people live through different experiences. Dervin states "Some judge a moment by use of a standard, others judge by familiarity or comfort". Thus people form assumptions about the information and may miss inform due to it.
If I were to teach this to high school kids I am not sure how I would teach it, this was hard for me to understand. I would definetly have to break the material into 2 parts and have them work in partners to come up with the same situations but variations to what happens to individuals. Then I would have students compare how communication would change depending on the variation each individual experiences.
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Helen
2/12/2018 04:47:40 pm
I agree this was extraordinarily hard to read article, I was thinking as I read it that if the sense making comes from the participant, why did she write at such an elevated level? I also felt that her point about people responding in time and cultural systems was a good one. I also liked that Dervin said that miscommunication had larger gaps from person to person than it did between cultures.
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