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I haven't posted an entry in awhile. Things have been pretty excellent, lately. I just went to Virginia this past weekend with Jordan and Damien and hung out with a bunch of cool people. My birthday is this Saturday. 22 seems so old. 21 was new and exciting, but I can't believe it's already been a year since that.
Also, I'm sick. A lot of my friends were getting sick the past few weeks, but right when everyone was starting to get better, I started to get sick. I felt REALLY bad Sunday night, but I'm already starting to feel better so I hope that all goes away by the time my birthday comes around (even more hopefully by Thursday when Raeven, Mike, and Jess come down).
On a more comedic note, my HD FS teacher is dumb.
Okay, so in my Infancy/Childhood Development class today, we were discussing Spatial Perspective Taking. Basically, being able to understand how things look from the perspective of another person or from a different location. It's supposed to develop in children around 2 years old I believe (maybe it was a little earlier). She used this as an example:
First of all, when she first brought up the Powerpoint slide with this on it, she directed our attention to the left picture (labeled 1). She began with "Now, you'll see here on picture 1 on the left, well, MY left anyway, blah blah blah".
"well, MY left anyway"
It's a Powerpoint presentation. Her left while looking at the screen is always going to be the same as our left, unless you're looking at it from upside down (which I assume nobody in the class was), so it's pointless to specify "well, MY left anyway".
Aside from that, let's closer examine the picture she used to show what she meant by Spatial Perspective Taking. She went on to explain about how if there were 4 people seeing the same thing, each of them standing in different positions (labeled a, b, c, and d) then Spatial Perspective Taking is being able to understand what things look like from their angle.
Say we were standing at position b. The first picture illustrates what you would see from position b. Okay, this makes sense so far.
However, look at picture 2. If I was standing at position b, and trying to imagine what position c was seeing, picture 2 is not what I would envision. Look at the first picture. From that picture, you would think that position c would be able to see the green mountain with the house on top in the foreground, with the larger snowcapped mountain in the background of that. Look at what picture 2 is showing. It is showing that from position c, the large mountain is almost completely obscuring your view from the other two notable features. It isn't at all what position c would be seeing from that perspective if it was the same position as it was in picture 1.
I don't think my teacher has really developed her Spatial Perspective Taking abilities yet, and therefore is not qualified to teach about them.
Also, I'm sick. A lot of my friends were getting sick the past few weeks, but right when everyone was starting to get better, I started to get sick. I felt REALLY bad Sunday night, but I'm already starting to feel better so I hope that all goes away by the time my birthday comes around (even more hopefully by Thursday when Raeven, Mike, and Jess come down).
On a more comedic note, my HD FS teacher is dumb.
Okay, so in my Infancy/Childhood Development class today, we were discussing Spatial Perspective Taking. Basically, being able to understand how things look from the perspective of another person or from a different location. It's supposed to develop in children around 2 years old I believe (maybe it was a little earlier). She used this as an example:
First of all, when she first brought up the Powerpoint slide with this on it, she directed our attention to the left picture (labeled 1). She began with "Now, you'll see here on picture 1 on the left, well, MY left anyway, blah blah blah".
"well, MY left anyway"
It's a Powerpoint presentation. Her left while looking at the screen is always going to be the same as our left, unless you're looking at it from upside down (which I assume nobody in the class was), so it's pointless to specify "well, MY left anyway".
Aside from that, let's closer examine the picture she used to show what she meant by Spatial Perspective Taking. She went on to explain about how if there were 4 people seeing the same thing, each of them standing in different positions (labeled a, b, c, and d) then Spatial Perspective Taking is being able to understand what things look like from their angle.
Say we were standing at position b. The first picture illustrates what you would see from position b. Okay, this makes sense so far.
However, look at picture 2. If I was standing at position b, and trying to imagine what position c was seeing, picture 2 is not what I would envision. Look at the first picture. From that picture, you would think that position c would be able to see the green mountain with the house on top in the foreground, with the larger snowcapped mountain in the background of that. Look at what picture 2 is showing. It is showing that from position c, the large mountain is almost completely obscuring your view from the other two notable features. It isn't at all what position c would be seeing from that perspective if it was the same position as it was in picture 1.
I don't think my teacher has really developed her Spatial Perspective Taking abilities yet, and therefore is not qualified to teach about them.