---1--OBSERVATIONS SKILLS: WHAT'S OUT THERE?

       

    What's out there ?    

  If we base our thinking on poor observation ,then no matter how many strategies we devise ,or how well we reason ,that thinking will be faulty .
                  

    Using Observation  Skills To Develop New Knowledge 

   Those  of you who discovered something new from these exercises learned because you observed in it's true sense of staying awake and closely attentive .Therefore you became aware of details ,which a sweeping glance would have missed in your subject ,that revealed significance about the whole .The following reading process of learning .

  Evaluating Your Work By Using The Scoring Boxes

  Thus ,the scoring boxes can serve first a checklist to help you determine the strengths and weaknesses of your first  draft.Second ,they can be used in class to guide you and your first draft .In summary ,the scoring boxes have the following purposes;

1. To clarify each assignments  skill building components 
2. To clarify priorities  and criteria
3. To clarity standards for a peer critical analysis that will take place in class .
4. To enable you to turn in your best work for a grade

   The Observation Process :Sensing ,Perceiving ,Thinking 

  When you worked with your fruit ,vegetable,or tool,you went through a process  of collecting data ,seeing patterns,and drawing conclusions.As you learned  in the opening  ,Discovery Exercises,this process is called inductive reasoning .

   Sensing occurs through sense organs such as the eyes and skin.When our sense organs become activated by stimuli such as by a bright ,warm light they send information though the nervous system  to brain .

   In everyday speech the word perceiving is often used loosely  as a syndrome for sensing,although there  are distinct  differences .Perception is both passive and active ;it holds sensations in consciousness  long enough to interpret  them.

    How Discomfort Leads Us To Think   

    In our daily lives ,when we are presented with a problem ,our first reaction may be one of denial and inertia .We may try first to explain this situation in a way that will not require any change or effort from us .Let's take the case of a young man who tries one job after another ,only to always find himself bored of fired .He attributes his problem to bad .