#comprehension

[art-of-mathematics]

If you know you know.

... Extrapolating from incomplete data be like...

[palatinewolfsblog]

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - Mark Twain

[classycookiexo]

[yeesiine]

Healthy relationships are not found , they are built off teamwork....good communication, understanding & comprehension.

[thetendertongue]

episteme — knowledge or understanding.

in the context of Foucault: the underlying framework that defines the conditions of possibility for knowledge in a particular historical period. not just about what people know, but about the rules and structures that determine how they come to know it. each era has its own episteme that governs the production of knowledge (e.g., think of how differently we understand biology, economics, or linguistics compared to those in the 18th century). these frameworks operate beneath the surface, often unconsciously guiding what is considered valid knowledge.

shapes the discourse of the time, influencing language, concepts, and categories used in various fields of study. helps us recognize what we consider "truth" or "knowledge" is not universal or timeless, but instead shaped by historical and cultural contexts

[tweets-corner]

[reblogandlikes]

Dyslexic Feyre

Probably already stated, but dyslexic Feyre would have been a vibe. Her being dyslexic would have explained how she was illiterate at 19 when she still would have access to formal education before their family wealth got totalled. Perhaps she found difficulties due to her dyslexia and instead of focusing on her studies, her being a child, found other things that made her happy e.g. exploring as a way to distract from things that made her feel different. Another barrier between her and her sister's upbringing.

Would have been even better if her dyslexia had stayed after turning fae. Now she's an adult without the distraction of her "duties to her family," she could have taken the time to find her own mode of learning that's accessible to her - maybe something the humans didn't know about. Because writing random self-important sentences about a dude for a few weeks does not suddenly remedy illiteracy. If that was the case, then it could be said that she held herself back if learning became so easy. She was her own barrier, narratively seen when she refused Tamlin's offer to help initially with poetry due to...embarrassment? Clearly it's something she hides well if even she own sisters weren't aware.

Either way, having her so vocally forward when speaking with other HL's but still stammering when trying to read Nyx's children's book would be so real. Don't know how she can suddenly grasp courtly documents, though. Let alone her level of comprehension to internalise that would lead to solutions.

If there wasn't a clear reason why she couldn't read before, then it shouldn't have been a plot point, is all I'm saying. Create another reason to have Lucien in a cage that wasn't reliant of Feyre knowing basic phonics and blending. I dunno. Test her stamina where she has to hold the rope attached to the mechanism that would skewer him. His survival dependant on her frail strength and pure determination to save a fae. A testament of character. Make it more twisted with having another fae she knows and then having to choose which survives and which dies.

(Came across a man teaching himself how to read on insta and I was honestly so proud of his progress. His frustration, his joy, his focus and dedication - amazing. Then I got reminded of Feyre and how reading is randomly no longer a barrier, so I came here to rant.)

[thejourneyoflifewords]

I used to think communication was the key until I realized comprehension is. You can communicate all you want with someone but if they don't understand you, its silent chaos.

[artist-issues]

Hello! Hope I am not pestering.

It seems someone new is responding to the pinned post again, so I will try not to sound redundant. I took a gander at your second to last point and I am curious about something.

In regards to stories that don't have known authors, like folk stories that were passed down orally and only after some point were written down by a person who wanted to put it all together; could we say then, what the author intended to say with the story is open to multiple interpretations? Would that then be that stories of this nature are not in fact stories, but just gibberish?

Maybe! Like the Brothers Grimm collecting folk tales, that sort of thing? It’s very important to this whole conversation that everyone understands: there can be multiple interpretations of any story. There can be. But those interpretations are either “correct” about what the author was saying, or “incorrect.” There are also different layers of meaning, even in intended meaning. We call it “nuance.” But just because there is nuance doesn’t mean there are no boundaries of what’s correct and what’s not.

Just like if the Main Point of a story is, “Faith Triumphs Over Fear” has a lot of layers of consequential meaning.

If I say “Star Wars’ main point, as a franchise, is that Faith Triumphs over Fear,” and you say, “Star Wars is about darkness versus light,” guess what? We actually don’t disagree. Your “interpretation” is just a different phrasing or stage of mine. Because faith could be rephrased as “light” and darkness as “fear,” in the context of Star Wars. And if someone said, “Star Wars is about how family love always wins against lust for power,” guess what, that still falls under the banner of “Faith Triumphs Over Fear.” Because family love requires faith: taking action based on trust in a person you’ve bonded with even though you can’t 100% prove they’ll always have your back, versus power, which is only chased by the villains in Star Wars because power brings what ladies and gentlemen? Control. So we’re back to faith-versus-fear, just from a “family” perspective.

So. There can be different layers of correct interpretation. And, there can be totally contradictory interpretations of a story—but just like anything in life, if two truth-statements contradict one another, they cannot both be right. One, or both of them, must be wrong.

So if one person says Lord of the Rings is about conquering and subduing weaker populaces, and another says Lord of the Rings is about the value in populaces that are sometimes perceived as “weaker,” they can’t both be right. They cannot both be correct interpretations, because they cancel each other out.

That is all I’m ever saying. Not that nobody is allowed to interpret a story differently. Just that there was an intended meaning, so your interpretation COULD BE WRONG.

And with that said, the Brothers’ Grimm’s collection of stories? Well, they had to summarize and re-write them. So they had to make their own interpretive judgement on the oral stories they were hearing, and then write their own. So, in that sense, maybe we’ll never know if they correctly interpreted what they heard. And, we’ll never know if what they created was faithful to what they heard. We can only judge each story by what it says.

Maybe you can’t know what the little old lady telling the Brothers Grimm Hansel and Gretel meant by her tale because you didn’t get to hear the way she told it. But the Brothers Grimm meant something, when they re-told it. So figure out the intended meaning of what you got, not what you don’t. It’s a faith thing. You don’t know what chemical makeup and manufactured history the clothes on your back have, but you still wear them in public as if you’re sure they won’t unravel.

What the storytellers call their stories changes things, too. Like the remakes that are so popular today. If someone makes a story about a headstrong and adventurous young woman who claps-back at those who wrong her and conquers the heart of a prince through flirting—then they call that a “Cinderella” story—they’re wrong. They’re mislabeling their story. Because none of the earliest versions of Cinderella are about that kind of girl. That is a wrong interpretation of the story. So…they should call it something else. That’s fine. But don’t try to change a story’s meaning, just call it something else.

Basically, my answer to your question is: no, a collective summary of oral traditions does not have to be gibberish. It could be a faithful reproduction of what the oral storytellers were trying to say—a “correct” interpretation, passed on. It could also be an incorrect interpretation, but at that point, if we can’t interpret the source material for ourselves? Firsthand? Then all we get to do is interpret the passed-on version. And try to do that correctly. Like a game of telephone. Because the point is to understand what the storyteller is trying to tell you, then make a judgement call, or even start saying your own thing. (The point is not to change what they’re saying.) And if you can’t hear the storyteller with your own ears, you can only hear a secondhand account, or thirdhand, or whatever? Then that’s all you have to go on.

Think about how conversation works. Even the words I choose to use might not be the exact most perfect tools to convey what I really mean. Because I’m a fallible human. And your perceptive biases might warp the words I use, too. Add into the mix more people, passing our words to each other through their own perceptive filters? You could lose a lot of originally-intended meaning. But if any conversation is going to happen at all, any communication—you have to just do the best you can in good faith. You have to say, “I’m going to come to this conversation believing you’re trying to say something, and willing to understand.”

That was kinda rambly, sorry. But hopefully something in there answers your question!

[themontessoriacademyofarlington]

Lower Elementary - Collaborative Learning: Grammar Boxes

The tactile nature of the Grammar Boxes engages students physically, making abstract grammar concepts more concrete and understandable. The color-coded cards and symbols, with nouns printed on black rectangles and represented by black triangles, provide visual cues that help students easily identify and differentiate nouns from other parts of speech. These students are working collaboratively in a small group, where they can discuss and explore the material together. They are using dictionaries to look up unfamiliar words, enhancing their vocabulary and comprehension and fostering a deeper understanding of the nouns they encounter. This group dynamic encourages peer learning and support, making the learning process more interactive and engaging.

[di-kot-o-me]

 Growth and decline of multiple intellectual abilities over the life span | Full study | PDF

[jeanetteirismiller]

“It takes me a longer time to fully process information and emotions than most people. This can come with challenges.”

“Sometimes, when journaling, I don’t even know what to say because my feelings are still just vague concepts and pictures.”

“It’s like an abstract painting. You know it is meant to represent feelings, but it’s unclear which or how many.”

“It can be very tricky to put all that into words. Plus, I’m not supposed to fall into the trap of intellectualizing my feelings either.”

“I’m starting to think that a lot of traditional therapy techniques need to be tweaked a bit when you’re autistic or they’ll cause MORE overwhelm.”

[larimar]

donmiguelruiz

[darkpoeticsoul]

[thisweeksobsessionis]

”straight women who ship B/B are just fetizizing homosexual relationships”

people who say this are the ones who are actually fetizizing b/b relationships as their the ones reducing the ships down to nothing more than the sexual component’s.