BodyWorlds and Learning
BodyWorlds and LearningI went for Prof. Gunter Von Hagens' fabulous BodyWorlds exhibition yesterday and was amazed at his work and his collection. Most of what I knew only through words and descriptions were laid out explicitly in front of me. For example, I only knew through imagination what a knee cap prosthesis might look like, but looking at a knee cap prosthesis in front of me, along with all the muscle, bone, and tissue, gave me a different insight. But even with the explicit exhibits and the information cards, I would not have captured the entire essence of some exhibits if I did not happen to listen in to a doctor explaining the exhibits to his girlfriend. I found his explanations so interesting that I took his route and followed him till he became conscious of my omnipresence. Instruction and experience seem to take different routes in explaining. The informality of experience just seems to explain things a lot better, and at a higher plane too. We can call it the power of the narrative, or it just could be that we humans (me at least) are hardwired to make sense of the informal. We are sense-making creatures and thus thrive on fuzzy conditions that force us to make sense of the situation. Maybe that's why we consider the formal to be mundane. Maybe this is just another rant.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 25, 2003
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