As part of the Walden community, you will have class mates from around the globe. Each of us brings our own local culture into the classroom. Diversity of experience allows Walden students to learn from their peers as they also learn from Walden’s skilled faculty. For some of you, it might be the first time that you’ve met someone who grew up in a different country. You are going to learn with people who have been shaped by their cultures and life experiences; many of them may have different views than you because they have had very different experiences. In order to learn from each other, you need to develop trust. How is trust formed when you cannot shake a person’s hand or meet for a cup of coffee? How do you build a place where each student can provide his or her perspective and feel safe while doing so? A culture of trust in an online setting must be constructed deliberately. Each of you has a role to play in creating a space where everyone is comfortable expressing their thoughts and ideas. This week you will be asked to consider the ways that multiple perspectives complicate or increase your understanding of any given situation. Technology has allowed for more voices, visions, and auditory information via the Internet. You can access books, articles, films, and songs that provide more insight from across the world about any given topic. The Week 3 Notes and Readings will provide a variety of perspectives on the range of human virtual experiences. With all of the various avenues to information, are you better informed than ever before? Do you know more? Revisit the Reading Images and Text document from Week 2. Use the information in this handout to help focus and improve your reading of both images and text. What you see and hear is filtered through who you are. Each person has a different perspective. Your perspective can be influenced by the physical environment: where you are standing, the weather, or the time of day. It can also be influenced by one’s mood, by cultural filters, or by past experiences. When you understand what you think and feel and even see and hear is impacted by human experiences, you begin to understand how difficult it is to arrive at pure fact. Technology has an opportunity to impact human ways of knowing, thinking, and expressing. In this Discussion you will experience the same story in multiple formats: the written word, the spoken word, and video. When you begin to add photos or manipulate images, is this changing your experience or enhancing or distorting your realit
y? Reference content from Week 3 Notes and Readings in your Discussion post. Post a response to one of the following prompts (at least 200-300 words); complete Consider the imagery you created in your mind as you interacted with the written version of . Describe this imagery and discuss whether it helped you understand the story. Did the imagery or imagined tone change when you listened to the audio? How? Which medium did you enjoy the most? Now, do the same exercise with Sojourner Truth’s speech in text and as interpreted by Cicely Tyson in video form. Which medium did you prefer and why? Comparing the forms you preferred in each case, what might that tell you about how you learn? of your classmate’s postings from the Discussion question. Respond with a comment that asks for clarification or provides support for of your classmates. to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your classmates made. to return to the classroom in a few days, to check the Grade Center for Instructor comments and your grade. How we interpret something often depends on our past experiences and perspectives. Begin by reading the speech given by Sojourner Truth. Describe your reactions to this speech. When you watched Cicely Tyson’s interpretation through her performance, was it different than you imagined? How and why? Which medium did you enjoy the most? Now, do the same exercise with the two articles for Omayra Sanchez’s story. When her picture was released, there was controversy about whether the picture was necessary to convey her story or if it was just an attempt by the journalist to shock the public and sale more newspapers. Do you think the picture was necessary? Was the event conveyed just as vividly in the story without the picture? Why or why not? Comparing the forms you preferred in each case, what might that tell you about how you learn? of your classmate’s postings from the Discussion question. Respond with a comment that asks for clarification or provides support for of your classmates. to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your classmates made. to return to the classroom in a few days, to check the Grade Center for Instructor comments and your grade. To complete your Discussion this week, select the link. Then, select the corresponding thread: