COMM 470 Agenda - Week 2

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COMM 470 Agenda - Week 2

• Questions about the Syllabus?
• Team Pictures
• Final Team Formation
• Implicit and Explicit Course Agreements
• ITE2a Paradigms
• Lecture
• ITE2b Components of Listening
• ITE2c Acknowledgement Exercise

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Final Team Formation

• If you werent here last week
• Come down front
• Ill assign you to a team
• Existing Teams
• Let me know if you have fewer than 6 members on
  your team

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Worldviews and Paradigms

• Worldview
• The Sum of Your Paradigms
• Paradigms
• A Specific Approach to a Phenomenon
• A Specific Approach to a Situation
• A Specific Approach to a Person or People

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In-Class Team Exercise 1b

• First do individually . . .
• List your Paradigms about Listening
• Listening to Friends
• Listening to Parents
• Listening to Small Children
• Listening to Teachers (Lecturing)
• then do as a team (use the official form)

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Overview of Listening

• The world is created in language.

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Overview of Listening

• The world of human beings is created in language
• Everything comes out of conversation
• Every idea started in a conversation
• Every physical structure started in conversation
• Every social structure started in a conversation
• Every meta-conversation started in conversation

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Reality

• Two Types of Reality
• Physical Reality
• Agreement Reality
• Two Ways to Have Knowledge
• Direct Experience
• Indirect Experience (Reading, Listening, Watching
  Others)

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Overview of Listening

• Four Levels / Aspects to Listening
• Technique
• Attitude
• Worldview / Paradigm / Lenses
• Meta-conversations

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In-Class Team Exercise 2a

• Discuss, then List Three
• Listening Techniques
• Components of Attitude
• Ways to Attend to Meta-Conversations
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• Additional Team Work (if time permits)
• Plan TP2 (Peer Evaluation Procedures and Criteria)

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In-Class Team Exercise 2b

• Part II
• Two rounds of Acknowledgment
• Deliverable No Written Deliverable
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• Additional Team Work (if time permits)
• Plan TP2 Revisions