Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Change Blindness
Last week, I had a great time giving the students a glimpse of my research, tactile change blindness. I did a short presentation to remind them again of who I was (there are a few new students in the classroom this semester who I don't know as well). We reviewed the five senses and the technical names for each sense. I was surprised how many students knew about each sense. I then showed them a youtube clip of visual change blindness so that they could understand the phenomenon from a real life scenario and most of the students were floored by the experiment shown in the video. The rest of the presentation just involved short examples that tested whether or not you can detect change blindness and they were really involved. It was a bit challenging to keep students who detected the change from blurting it out and spoiling it, but after awhile they calmed down. I think it was good to show the students that engineering is much broader than they may be aware of.
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2 comments:
Sounds great! Is it possible to add the video clip, or at least the link, to this posting?
Best,
~Angela
Kiana,
I second Angela's request for a link to the video. Expanding students concept of what engineering is about is a big part of why it is important to have Teaching Fellows in the classroom. Excellent work! Also, you shared your work and hopefully this will expand some of the students' ideas abput what they might be able to do. Thanks for being there!
Carol Cramer
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