In regards to Pink’s Six Senses I believe that Story is the most important and exciting ‘sense’ of them all. According to Pink, “we are our stories.” Stories define who we are as humans. Since the beginning of time, we have used stories to pass along wisdom, beliefs, and values. Stories are how we share experiences and customs that eventually form families, communities and our society. Life would be so empty without stories. I could not imagine a world without humorous tales, gossip, jokes and laugher, drama, songs and romance. These are all forms of stories and there are many storytellers such as singers, actors, writers, poets, reporters, teachers, playwrights, musicians, journalists, professors, novelists, preachers, etc. In one way or another, we are all storytellers.
Through storytelling we can build bridges between generations, but more importantly stories are an excellent tool for teaching and learning. Pink points out in his book that, “stories are easier to remember – because in many ways, stories are how we remember.” I must agree with Pink because many of the lessons I remember are the ones in forms of stories. For instance, the best and most effective professors I had in college were the ones who told stories. These professors did not read thro
ugh the course material in a book but they bought the lessons to life by infusing their experiences, personality and personal stories into each class. Through stories the whole class was engaged in listening and taking part in the class conversations but primarily understanding the class material at hand.When students are engaged in a story, either hearing or telling, their communications skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) tend to develop more rapidly. With today’s technology we can also tap into students’ technological creativity with programs like PhotoStory, Windows Movie Maker and iMovie. Through storytelling, teachers can form a narrative which can illuminate new coursework, thoroughly engage students and make lessons fun and memorable.
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Pink’s sense "story" is definitely an important sense that we could not live without. Just think, you can’t even open your e-mail without being tempted to click on the latest stories being advertised. It takes me twice the amount of time to get through my e-mails because there is always one story or another that catches my eye and I have to know what it’s about. It’s in our nature to want to know what is happening around us. As Pink mentions in his book our minds work better with remembering stories than it does to remember facts. To me this make sense, which would be more interesting? Stories help us to improve our future by learning from past experiences. We continue to learn about our own way of living and our culture through stories that are passed down from one generation to the next. I never knew my maternal grandmother, but through stories that my mother has told me about her I feel that I know her. Same for my mother, I feel I know her better because of the childhood stories that she’s shared with her children. Stories have been told since the beginning of time and will continue to be told until the end of time. Stories help strengthen who we are and who we can become. Stories mold our world. Think about all the romance, drama, comedy, etc. we would be missing without stories.
I believe story to be very important in life too. Mei-Lynn you touched upon the key factor of our students learning. They do learn more from storytelling than from just straight facts. I know this to be true for my self as well. Living history's are the only way I absorbed social studies in college. Story's rope you in and make it more meaningful. Pinks senses are all intertwined and work off of each other.
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