How can we use LEARNING to help improve active listening, reflective listening and perception checking skills?
Learning is a lifelong journey and can be used to increase ones use of active listening by having more conversations with people and really put effort into listening to what they have to say (genuine interest) and not just hear them. Learn to ask follow-up questions to draw out additional information to avoid making assumptions. Finally, practice using "minimal" encouragements like "Uh huh" and "can you expand on that?" in your discussions throughout the day at school or at work.
One can Learn to use reflective listening by taking the time to practice restating what the person you are talking to has said and listen to their response to see if what you restated was correct.
Lastly, perception checking skills are very difficult and something I have been trying to improve on for a number of years to assist in having discussions with my administrators or teachers. Learning these skills are most helpful in delicate situations where you must learn to paraphrase or summarize what the speaker has said to check for understanding.
Parents use Learning to improve their Active Listening skills making it easier to talk to their children and one another.
For fun, here's a classic Rap skit about someone who is in dire need of Learning listening skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz3rubGrGZQ
Collective Thinking
I have to deviate from the norm here because this blog assignment was just too confusing for me to wrap my head around. I didn't know if my video link was supposed to be related to the listening and checking processes that were covered in the readings or if it just had to just be about out life purpose.
With that said, I read through the week 4 readings and watched the videos and in the middle of it all I had a debate ... with myself ... regarding collective knowledge and how it impacts society. On one end, I see collective knowledge sharing as a great way to pool our ingenuity as a group that could better the world. The other side of me kept saying, "We are the Borg. You must assimilate." Is this science fictional society what it means to be a collective?
Here's a cool video that explains "The Collective" if you want to watch it.
#ics119
Hi Mike, thank you for your comment. In this course you will be connecting to other people with similar interests. To connect with them you need to know how to use these listening skills. The videos are meia you are collecting for later use. The listening skills are to get you ready to connect using your media. Does this make sense?
ReplyDeleteHow could the assignment be more clearer?
Thanks,
Greg
Hi Greg!
DeleteThank you for your comments. My confusion was about the "meat" of the assignment. I know we needed a new blog with one of the videos from our playlist that pertains to our passion. Then we have to make a connection to listening and perception skills. In my case, none of my playlist videos had much if anything to do with these skills, so I did more research on the skills and found some. I guess I got hung up on why did I need to use a video from my playlist or did I totally mess up my video choices because none of them pertained to these skills.
I hope this peek into my mind (scary stuff in there) made some sense?
If not, I got to plug in a Rap R. video into an assignment, so I'm all good 😇
Hi Renee...funny you should mention colonizer. Valentines brings out the funniest things in Hawaii because of its significance to the dead of Captain Cook. People relate this as a small victory in the early days of exploration before colonization began to hit our islands....and like the Borg....the colonizer made Hawaiians assimilate or die. In doing so, the culture was obsorbed into the collective called the United States of America. Oh, this would be a cool thesis! Hahahaha
ReplyDeleteWell, I liked your Ray Romano videos. Made me chuckle!
ReplyDeleteSo you mentioned ways you can use the listening skills as a teacher. Do you think it's a skill that your students should ever work on ? Could you think of activities where they would have to practice their listening skills?