COMM 470 Agenda - Week 5

1. COMM 470 Agenda - Week 5 Readiness Assessment Test #2 (RAT2) ITE3a – Calibrate with Your Team - How was Listening this Week? Review of Team Project 2 (TP2) Execute Team Project 3a (TP3a) Lecture – Concepts, Reality, Paradigms ITE 3b – Examining Paradigms ITE 3c – Swets’ FAILURE & SUCCESS Listening Exercise for Week 6

2. In-Class Team Exercise # 4a Discuss: • How did you do on “Asking Questions” this week? • Count how many times; share 2 examples Deliverable: Summarize in a table how many conversations you each1) thought about the assignment, and then2) succeeded partially3) succeeded completely • ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • How did you do on “Acknowledgement” and Accepting Acknowledgement this week? • Each person share 1 example

3. Procedures for RATs Clear Your Desktop of Everything Except: • A Scantron • A Blank Sheet of Paper • Your Copy of the RAT • Be sure to write your name on your copy of the RAT Refer to the Directions in Your Folder

4. Team Project 2 (TP2) In General, Nice Job Teams!! Things to Note: • If I require recommend changes, it’s noted on TP2 • Questions and Answers

5. Team Project 3a (TP3a) Take out copies of your TP2 forms • Each individual should fill them out for every team member • Be sure to make some open-ended comments (acknowledgement as well as any constructive criticism) • Return the forms to the person you evaluated • Discuss the comments and the team’s progress • List who participated on this week’s ITE form

6. “Reality” Two Types of “Reality” • Physical Reality • Agreement Reality Two Ways to Have Knowledge • Direct Experience • Indirect Experience (Reading, Listening, Watching Others)

7. How Do We “KNOW” Things? • Experiential Reality • Firsts Hand Experience • Done There; Been That ! • Agreement Reality • Second Hand Knowledge • Tradition and/or Authority • Both Can Assist or Hinder Inquiry

8. The World of Paradigms Paradigms are: • Over-arching structures of knowledge • Representations of the physical world that live in the world of ideas • Approximations of events • Paradigms are “Useful Fictions” • Paradigms are not “true” or “false” - they are simply tools • When a better approximation is available, scientists switch paradigms • Lessons: Newtonian Mechanics  Relativity

9. Paradigms Outside of Science The term is used freely today - • Stuffed crust pizza is a “new paradigm” Paradigm is used to denote smaller changes • In accepted processes • In common practices • In common beliefs • That’s ok; just keep in mind that in science, “paradigm shifts are very rare

10. In-Class Team Exercise # 4b Discuss: • Each Student List 3 Pradigms in the Ddomain of “Listening” • The team should compare and choose the 3 most important (on average) • ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deliverable: List the team’s top 3

11. Listening Exercise – for Week 6 Focus on: • NOT starting a reply with “No,” “But,” nor “Yes, But” • Beginning your replies to others with a statement that: • Lets them know you heard them • Validates them as a person • Validates what they said (if you agree or agree partially) Also Make it a Point to: • Continue to Acknowledge People in Your Life • Practice Accepting Acknowledgement