Here are a couple of incidences from last night's class that brought home the reality of reality, or rather, the power of one's perception to understand information that is received.
1) The learning strategies exercise. I simply COULD NOT understand the instructions of the group exercise. I WANTED to understand, however, something prevented me from grasping the instructions. Something in how I perceived the assignment, in how I perceived the instructions prevented me from grasping the assignment. Luckily George understood and helped our team finish the assignment. I have moments like that quite often these days.
2) The last group exercise where we practiced analyzing an instructional situation. This time the perception problem lay with a team mate. He provided a beautiful response to a totally different question. He even got me doubting my understanding of the assignment. It wasn't until another team member stated that she did not think that his response addressed the question asked. Later in our team discussion, it became clear that this same guy didn't understand what cognitive theory attempts to describe. Our team spent significant time trying to get him to see that the process IS important to cognitive theorists. Sadly, I don't think he changed his mind.
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