Education as Communication

Upon reading back through the blogs about our presentations in class, I found that even though we have a wide range of topics, they can still be related with one another with education and with emphasis on communication. Whether someone is talking about having schools specifically for the deaf, genocide in Darfur, special needs education or therapy, or technology in education, it requires that people educate one another and use communication in order to both create goals and obtain them. So, reflecting again on what I think education means, I believe my definition should include the social aspects of learning which many people either forget or ignore. "Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective" talked about how important spoken language can be. "The Lesson" used different means to educate children in a different style of communication. Even the hurricane Katrina article we read used pieces of writing from different individuals in order to portray information to the readers. With the idea of communication and socialization in mind, I think a really important research question would be how different means of communication affect education and learning. This doesn't simply include talking, but also the way teachers use excersizes in class, what projects they choose, how they convey pieces of information (in what kind of mannor), and what individual teachers highlight as important to know and learn. This is really important when discussing education because learning often depends on how effectively information gets across from one person to another. As far as communication in education goes, teachers need to be precise and be able to hit their goals everytime in order to get students to learn.