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INTERESTING CONNECTION

Submitted by Ayotola Oronti on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 8:24am.
Paul,                 
      I see the connection between the Inquiry Institute and the BBI too. For the BBI 2008, I had worked on how I can help my 4th grade students get it less wrong at writing. These students come in with a wealth of experiences that are stored up in their brains as pictures or images. The problem is that they cannot easily translate these images into words. For example when asked to write an account of their summer vacation, some can manage to have two sentences. Now I understand their plight. Pictures are concrete and as such limiting while words on the other hand are more assailable, almost without boundaries.
           I once had an activity in my class. My students were asked to take a picture walk of a story and to write a prediction of what that story will be about. Their predictions/stories were very close. We all read the story and I asked them to illustrate the story they've just read and add an ending to it. To my surprise ALL their illustrations were very diverse. I can safely say that because pictures / images are concrete and words are more accessible, there were differences in the stories written for each. This helps me relate to Paul's question again:  Are there differences between words and pictures as ways of thinking? 
Tola

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