The Fishbowl

Notes 9/11/19:
- Learning through osmosis – learning design thinking - Innovated organization between the three of you through interacting
- Always Google the name sent- what sentence or two did you select to represent the work of that guy.
- Want to creating a living text- if not then it is dead space
- Immerse yourself in text- thinking about the word all the time – thinking with one word at a time to the dictionary selection is where the
reflection takes place
- Learning to talk about concepts
Social meeting exercise
- will cancel one class- open ended meeting, no agenda, no time limit, start making notes about what you’re
feeling to write out what you’re thinking/feeling. With regard to the meeting, just write it. Ethnographic notes- observation notes.
o Then write in details of the meeting and explain the meeting. It’s about the saying who said what, take it all down.
- From the notes you’re going to circle 6 words (symbols), Pairing up the 6 words into 3 pairs not associated with each other. Then go
to the dictionary 2 words at a time and writing it out. Creating a simple sentence - 3 sentences with 2 words in them. Frame work for
you to interpret your social meeting. Short paragraph you’re describing the incidents.
- Framing, Interpreting, description, incidents --> look up for social assignment
- Not in touch with your images -- When we share our differences we get closer to each other
- Assignment #2
o “Precise meaning and significance will vary according to the frame of reference through which it is viewed.” - Imaginization
 Precise
 Meaning
 Significance
 Vary
 According
 Frame
 Reference
 View
o For each word go to dictionary and write the meaning of the words
o Coming up with a sentence with that domain of words- don’t need all the words

- Attending class helps understand the process
- We are knowledge workers, we are creating knowledge through learning in the fishbowl
o Original to you, your creative structure
- Sharing our thought process – instead of deleting put a line through it
o The way your mind works is the resource you’re bringing to the table – through the google search you’re revealing how your mind works.
o Take the google searches very seriously and one sentence about them and this will educate you
- Group
o Are you having a valuable learning experience?
o If there is a person lagging behind, just go with the two of you
- Fishbowl steps 1-4 – first sentence and creating the word pool and doing steps 1-4
- Taking ownership of your text, becomes knowing and knowledge structure which creates mental spaces and where you’re positioned in it
- You’re creating an episode
- You’re improving your vocab – always in motion and always in a state of becoming
o We are a sculpture and the process of formation never ends
- The learning goes beyond these steps in the fishbowl, he is giving us the learning part during it, this is not linear only the steps are
- Know the metaphor and symbol

Skills are conceptual- developing the skill of conceptualizing- being able to refocus
Money is made if you have conceptual skills
YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO EMPOWER YOUR TEXT
GOOGLE: Reification
Pull out phrase and pull out word and felt experience – past and example and do the vocab from the email as well

The Guys
Social construction
Participative observation
Symbolic
Reflexivity
Action research
Auto-eth
The struggle is to capture flicking images in my mind for knowing and knowledge creation- start with the feeling
Notes:
- Beautiful, gleaming, glooming city
- Stone by stone I built my life
- Young foolish girl – would have fought that word
- That was before I had human dependence
- Step at a time for 8 eulogy – a word at a time
- 350 men but in a bad year we might lose 6- one day in one hour
- You’re giving their friends and family something they can recognize
- Eyes on him to know what to do
- Evoke**
- Bill was a fireman because it was thick in the Irish blood
- Dismal failures
- Absolutely dependable
- Steady and professional to show the way
- Social construction and symbolic interaction, imagination, text, images, metaphors
- The pebble is dropped in the water
- The impact is extraordinary when you work the text, they can feel the empathy
- Another sequence
- Probation—taking the word further- what does this mean – constructing meaning

- ¬¬¬¬When you write good text you get respect – it is in the text
- INTED 2020- conference – submit abstract now
- Closing the semester – letter- four sentences – do at least two of them – metaphor,
o Opening structure – 11 steps after – need to have four opening structures
o After all four are done – by Dec. 4th Hard copy: All sentences constructed in 10+1 steps – in each you’ve constructed four sentences – four projects list out all the sentences – min. of 16 sentences
 Dichotomies – see that listed as well
 Show the felt experiences
o On Dec. 4th – circle 15 words out of the projects (sentences) and dichotomies- put the words in five boxes- split with two inside and one outside
o With the three words you’re creating a sentences so you’ll have five new sentences – you need to take the words further to form a simple abstract sentence
o 16 sentences and five boxes with the five new sentences! December 4th!
o Five pages
 Your 16
 Your five boxes then have 15 boxes then pick five of the fifteen
 Jointly decided model for the group
o Felt experience is deep thinking – ask yourself how so…. If you can’t answer then just drop it – Telling story – becomes a reference point