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Friday, July 8, 2011

Words&Minds. Chapter 3 The Given and the New.

Mercer outlines explicit and formal knowledge that could be exchanged during a conversation. It could be tacit or implied system of cue or hint exhange that is non verbal agreement or common knowledge between participants. A listener can elicit responses from the orator of a conversation to make it more efficient or better yet just getting to the point.  However if neither a participant or group of individuals have no honed system of selective listening that is proactive and helps promote conversation, a serious breakdown of communication occurs.  Within this idea Bakhtim could be just a continual conversation that has never stopped since the dawn of human kind.

As a teacher I often wonder if students catch on to cue and wait time when an answer from me is solicited. I can ask a question on about anything dealing with art. Wait time can be pretty effective as a source of creating response in the classroom. Waiting for a student to answer a question when I call on them proves to be a difficult assertion these days. Even utilizing wait time after an answer has been given also can prove to be awkward. However if there is any success in this endeavor students have the opportunity to answer a question which actually helps them hone an ability of autonomy in an art classroom. As they get older they become more assertive in providing answers.

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