Re: communicating - Joe's response to Allen

[Allen Brown <brownan@educ.queensu.ca>]

Maybe.  What you're referring to is face-to-face (or equivalent) contact.
I was trying to be a bit more generic and allow consideration of materials
(e.g. text, graphics, mm, etc.) with which there can be no direct
interaction, on the spot, with the creator of the  "content".

But I think that we could add what you are describing by (a) communicating
some assessment task to the learner and (b) reversing the communication
direction of communications.  This does indicate in (a) that the
assessment activity must be clearly understood by the learner and in (b)
that the teacher must be tightly engaged in understanding what the learner
is saying / doing (if not for diagnostic purposes, then at least for
formal assessment reasons).

What do you think, Joe?

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Joseph Bellina wrote:

> What is missing in this description is, as I read it, blindness to the 
> response of the receiver.  Unless the sender gets back something by which 
> to judge the quality of the communication, the sender is acting in a way 
> that satisfies themselves but have little to do with what they want 
> communicated.
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Allen Brown wrote:
>
> > Probably Dan and John are both getting close to the mark here (and even
> > Dewey's ghost-like presence in John's post!).
 etc. (snipped)