Regarding the Le Guin quote, oral communication is complex. Those who make a career studying this allude to many factors, including the nature of the individuals and all the factors that influence them, inherent, voluntary and imposed. When dealing with the dynamics of the teaching/learning environment, one would be well advised to avoid generalizations. Good communication is as much an art as it is a science.
“In most cases of people actually talking to one another, human communication cannot be reduced to information. The message not only involves, it is, a relationship between speaker and hearer. The medium in which the message is embedded is immensely complex, infinitely more than a code: it is a language, a function of a society, a culture, in which the language, the speaker, and the hearer are all embedded.
Live, face-to-face human communication is intersubjective…It is not stimulus-response at all, not a mechanical alternation of precoded sending and receiving…It is a continuous interchange between two consciousnesses. Instead of an alternation of roles …between active subject and passive object, it is a continuous intersubjectivity that goes both ways all the time.”
Ursula K. Le Guin in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
TBers,
This is a reminder that there is a Teaching Breakfast tomorrow (April 13) at 8 am outside Starbucks. Hope to see you then.
As we are beginning to focus on accessibility issues on campus, I thought I would send out a few resources to help with information on this:
We’d love to hear of other resources that you might have to add to this list.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow if possible!
Chilton
Chilton Reynolds
Instructional Technology Support
Technology Training Coordinator
COIL Nodal Network Coordinator
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC)
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY 1820
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Phone: 607-436-2673