The Semali reading this week was very insightful, one part in particular that I liked was on page 11. About half way down the page Semali is telling us about the Swiss Linguists, Ferninand de Saussure and the studies he conducted. I am a big believer and supporter of the learning pyramid, so the work he did really hit home with me. He believed that analyzing signs was determined by two things. The first being the actual word or image, and the second being the corresponding thought that the sign/image/word triggers. This directly plays back into the learning pyramid, being that the more stimulus an idea is introduced with, the more likely a person is to remember it. he believed that this Transmediation are "systems of representation of meaning".
This allows us to give meaning to the world by creating a chain of meaningful and equivalent comparisons between people, objects, events, and ideas. He believed that the relationship between things and concepts lie at the heart of production. Generating these ideas in more then one way is easier for students to grasp as their own.
will you share the learning pyramid with students? I know I would have loved to have seen something like that as a high school student. It might have been helpful to learn about retainment.
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