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Communication with Different Perspectives
what ideas do you have for other ways to express and communicate ideas?
His disability helped me remember that people view information differently. Knowing this, in order to teach, we need to recognize these different perspectives and adapt the present information to the way that they see things - in the way that they see things. My brother’s visual learning is just one example, but it’s interesting to wonder how other disabilities - dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia - would have information presented as well.
For my paper, in light of my previous post about my parents, I am actually plan on thinking about the different ways non-native speakers view writing. In learning Japanese characters in my Japanese class, I have found that visualizing the stories that helped these characters come to be has helped me remember it more easily. (見-to see comes from a picture of an eye with a person’s feet, seeing in action). In memorizing Japanese words, I make up stories because unlike Spanish words, Japanese words don’t have shared stems with English words. Together, in writing and remembering Japanese words, I visualize not only the story (for the character) but the romanized English (for the actual word). In turn, for my essay, I’m thinking about presenting each word in story form and interchanging between words and characters different languages to present the way in which a non-native speaker may think and dissect writing.