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May 30, 2008 16:34:38 GMT
Post by SusanB on May 30, 2008 16:34:38 GMT
I've just found a nice garden path sentence in Pinker's Language Instinct, attributed to Annie Senghas: "The woman sitting next to Steven Pinker's pants are like mine." Especially amusing with the British meaning, rather than the American one!
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May 30, 2008 16:36:58 GMT
Post by Pete on May 30, 2008 16:36:58 GMT
I was amused by comment by a lawyer to the judge at a trial: "I apologise, Your Honour. You were right and I was wrong, as you usually are." ;D
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May 30, 2008 17:00:45 GMT
Post by Glyn on May 30, 2008 17:00:45 GMT
I'm loving this. but I'll keep my powder dry, partly because one of my children's (my daughter's) telephone-line is on the blink and I need to contact the provider. My other child's line is fine.
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May 30, 2008 18:34:39 GMT
Post by Paul Doherty on May 30, 2008 18:34:39 GMT
My other child's line is fine. Glyn, I hate you. I was just starting to feel I could move on ....
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May 31, 2008 10:54:42 GMT
Post by Sue M-V on May 31, 2008 10:54:42 GMT
But I often seem to misinterpret things on first reading. How common/careless is this? I know everyone does it sometimes. Do they do it as frequently as I do? SusanB, you are probably a divergent thinker! It's quite common and has nothing to do with carelessness. The subject of divergence and convergence as applied to thinking is one of my hobby horses, so forgive me one and all if I harp on about it - or tell me to keep quiet about it, as you please.Sue
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May 31, 2008 15:14:58 GMT
Post by Paul Doherty on May 31, 2008 15:14:58 GMT
or tell me to keep quiet about it, as you please. Quite the opposite. I'd like to know more.
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May 31, 2008 16:29:22 GMT
Post by Sue M-V on May 31, 2008 16:29:22 GMT
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May 31, 2008 16:31:29 GMT
Post by Sue M-V on May 31, 2008 16:31:29 GMT
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May 31, 2008 17:17:04 GMT
Post by Paul Doherty on May 31, 2008 17:17:04 GMT
You had a line break on the end of the first attempt, Sue.
Do you have any more detailed info? I did know pretty much what that page told me (I've done quite a lot of work on leaning styles and Kolb in the past -- in fact, I even met Peter Honey a few times, as he consulted on a course I was involved with) but I'd like to know more.
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May 31, 2008 20:47:56 GMT
Post by Tone on May 31, 2008 20:47:56 GMT
Can't agree that convergent is better for "design and technology" and divergent is better for non-them other things.
Without divergent, science and technology would be just a collation of facts without invention and creation. They/it need/s BOTH types of thinking for effective progress.
I'm sure that, for example, the GUI would not have been created without some very divergent thinking.
And Tone's definitely in the wrong job!
Tone
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May 31, 2008 22:16:53 GMT
Post by Sue M-V on May 31, 2008 22:16:53 GMT
Paul, you probably know a lot more about convergence/divergence than I do. I haven't read anything! I heard a (Swedish) talk on it once and have observed a great deal. I have divergent tendencies myself and suffered from them a bit at school ("finds difficulties where they do not arise"). My son is having similar problems to the ones I had, only he seems to be having them later - he's bluffed his way through till now, I suppose. I get quite a few divergent-thinking adult students and I always talk about this at the beginning of each course. It's like seeing a light come on in their faces when I do! Lots of the divergent thinkers have been led to believe that they were dim, but as I point out (and Tone would agree, I'm sure), without divergent thinkers we'd still be swinging in trees! I suppose that everyone's a mixture of the two, but that one is usually dominant. I also think that most of us start off more divergent but learn to be more convergent as we grow older. Society in general and school in particular is definitely geared towards convergence. There's nothing worse for a divergent thinker to be told by some idiot teacher: You must understand this, it is really easy! In a discussion with two colleagues recently (maths, technology, physics) I was told that they were always ready to explain and that if they were not understood, pupils were welcome to ask someone else! My aim as a teacher is to explain in as many ways as it takes till each of my students has understood. I'm like a dog with a bone, until they've all got the message! I would feel defeated if I couldn't make myself understood - and I do it in English, to boot. They do all understand in the end. (That doesn't mean, of course, that they all remember till next time!) Sue Diverging a little there; sorry!
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