COMM 470 Agenda - Week 5
• Readiness Assessment Test #2 (RAT2)
• ITE3a – Calibrate with Your Team - How was
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Listening this Week?
Review of Team Project 2 (TP2)
Execute Team Project 3a (TP3a)
Lecture – Concepts, Reality, Paradigms
ITE 3b – Examining Paradigms
ITE 3c – Swets’ FAILURE & SUCCESS
Listening Exercise for Week 6
In-Class Team Exercise # 4a
Discuss:
• How did you do on “Asking Questions” this
week?
• Count how many times; share 2 examples
Deliverable: Summarize in a table how many conversations
you each
1) thought about the assignment, and then
2) succeeded partially
3) succeeded completely
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• How did you do on “Acknowledgement” and
Accepting Acknowledgement this week?
• Each person share 1 example
Procedures for RATs
Clear Your Desktop of Everything Except:
• A Scantron
• A Blank Sheet of Paper
• Your Copy of the RAT
• Be sure to write your name on your copy of the
RAT
Refer to the Directions in Your Folder
Team Project 2 (TP2)
In General, Nice Job Teams!!
Things to Note:
• If I require recommend changes, it’s noted on TP2
• Questions and Answers
Team Project 3a (TP3a)
Take out copies of your TP2 forms
• Each individual should fill them out for every team
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member
Be sure to make some open-ended comments
(acknowledgement as well as any constructive
criticism)
Return the forms to the person you evaluated
Discuss the comments and the team’s progress
List who participated on this week’s ITE form
“Reality”
Two Types of “Reality”
• Physical Reality
• Agreement Reality
Two Ways to Have Knowledge
• Direct Experience
• Indirect Experience (Reading, Listening,
Watching Others)
How Do We “KNOW” Things?
• Experiential Reality
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Firsts Hand Experience
 Done There; Been That !
 Agreement Reality
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Second Hand Knowledge
 Tradition and/or Authority
 Both Can Assist or Hinder Inquiry
The World of Paradigms
Paradigms are:
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Over-arching structures of knowledge
Representations of the physical world that live in the
world of ideas
Approximations of events
Paradigms are “Useful Fictions”
• Paradigms are not “true” or “false” - they are
simply tools
• When a better approximation is available,
scientists switch paradigms
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Lessons: Newtonian Mechanics  Relativity
Paradigms Outside of Science
The term is used freely today • Stuffed crust pizza is a “new paradigm”
Paradigm is used to denote smaller changes
• In accepted processes
• In common practices
• In common beliefs
• That’s ok; just keep in mind that in science,
“paradigm shifts are very rare
In-Class Team Exercise # 4b
Discuss:
• Each Student List 3 Pradigms in the
Ddomain of “Listening”
• The team should compare and choose the 3
most important (on average)
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Deliverable: List the team’s top 3
Listening Exercise – for Week 6
Focus on:
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NOT starting a reply with “No,” “But,” nor “Yes,
But”
Beginning your replies to others with a statement
that:
• Lets them know you heard them
• Validates them as a person
• Validates what they said (if you agree or agree partially)
Also Make it a Point to:
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Continue to Acknowledge People in Your Life
Practice Accepting Acknowledgement