When I first started reading the Dervin article, I was immediately reminded that I did begin a second language learner, boy was it dense! I found myself rereading many parts of it just to make sense of it. Maybe it's the fact that summer has just began and I'm mentally exhausted that I couldn't focus, or I've been in an elementary classroom too long to be able to digest intense reading such as this.
Sense-making is described as a set of decisions involved with questioning that are made by people on a daily basis. One section also describes sense-making as the focus on behavior and questioning. There are step takings or communicating that involve internal and external behaviors. The behaviors that were described as internal were (comparing, categorizing, likings, disliking, polarizing, and stereotyping). The external behaviors were (shouting, ignoring, agreeing, disagreeing, attending, listening, etc.).
The article basically focuses on research and how information is processed in different scenarios. If I had to use this same article to teach high schoolers, I would definitely break it up into smaller sections. I would possibly give small sections to partnerships or groups to read, and have them determine how to creatively deliver the message to the rest of the class. I think using some sort of visual presentation would make the information more understandable for students to understand. I would recommend that they are direct with their message because the article seemed to spiral with the same information.
Sense-making is described as a set of decisions involved with questioning that are made by people on a daily basis. One section also describes sense-making as the focus on behavior and questioning. There are step takings or communicating that involve internal and external behaviors. The behaviors that were described as internal were (comparing, categorizing, likings, disliking, polarizing, and stereotyping). The external behaviors were (shouting, ignoring, agreeing, disagreeing, attending, listening, etc.).
The article basically focuses on research and how information is processed in different scenarios. If I had to use this same article to teach high schoolers, I would definitely break it up into smaller sections. I would possibly give small sections to partnerships or groups to read, and have them determine how to creatively deliver the message to the rest of the class. I think using some sort of visual presentation would make the information more understandable for students to understand. I would recommend that they are direct with their message because the article seemed to spiral with the same information.
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