{"id":74,"date":"2017-10-19T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:15:19","slug":"how-to-read-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/2017\/10\/19\/how-to-read-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skill that is often taken for granted.\u00a0 Instructions accompany every consumer good we come into contact with; do we give them a second thought.\u00a0 Often as we are setting up a new TV and sound system we often only turn to the instructions when needed &#8211; at an information gap.\u00a0 Unfortunately at this point, our emotions have reached a point where we are not receptive to reasonable input,\u00a0 frustration has entered the activity, and you have now entered the &#8220;chord entanglement spectrum,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dt.azadicdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/headphone_wires.png?200\" alt=\"Image result for headphone entanglement\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How most people see instructions when they open up the book in anger mode:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/c7Da76x.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for instruction unclear meme\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I intend to develop the practice of teaching &#8220;Instruction Comprehension.&#8221; A lesson designed to help kids develop the skill of reading, understanding, and following written and verbal instructions.\u00a0 This is based on the theory of &#8220;Learning to Learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skill that is often taken for granted.\u00a0 Instructions accompany every consumer good we come into contact with; do we give them a second thought.\u00a0 Often as we are setting up a new TV and sound system we often only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/2017\/10\/19\/how-to-read-instructions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1374300,716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educ-450","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/richdahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}