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TOK Diary 1

The document discusses the role of the senses in learning, with a focus on sight and hearing. It argues that sight is the most important sense for gaining knowledge, as we acquire much of our understanding of the world through vision. Hearing also plays a key role in learning, especially when acquiring language as children. Together, sight and hearing allow us to perceive much of our surroundings. While other senses like smell, touch, and taste also provide information, research shows sight processes over 80% of the sensory information we take in.

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TOK Diary 1

The document discusses the role of the senses in learning, with a focus on sight and hearing. It argues that sight is the most important sense for gaining knowledge, as we acquire much of our understanding of the world through vision. Hearing also plays a key role in learning, especially when acquiring language as children. Together, sight and hearing allow us to perceive much of our surroundings. While other senses like smell, touch, and taste also provide information, research shows sight processes over 80% of the sensory information we take in.

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TOK Diary 1: Sight in the most

important sense for gaining


knowledge
As learners, each of our senses has different processing capacities.
Sight is the major sense and extremely important to learning. Hearing is
also important because we acquire our language skills as young children
through our hearing. Language gives us the ability to name and explain
our experiences. Together sight and hearing help us perceive much of the
world around us.
The more our senses are engaged in meaningful and structured methods,
the more easily learning can occur. Ultimately, our senses act as learning
portals. All raw information enters our brains through those learning
portals. Our challenge is making meaning from that information and
connecting it with previous experiences and past knowledge.
But then again, we can disagree and agree with the statement above.
Neuroscience and cognitive psychology research has uncovered the
amazing power of our senses.
According to researchers Dr. L.D. Rosenblum, Dr. Harold Stolovitch and Dr.
Erica Keeps, heres how much information each of our senses processes at
the same time as compared to our other senses.
83.0%
11.0%
03.5%
01.5%
01.0%

Sight
Hearing
Smell
Touch
Taste

Sight, holds the first place, and its right, I explained how hearing
contributes to our knowledge when we grow up, what what about, reading
lips? I mean, we are hearing nothing, we are just LOOKING how the other
persons lips move, we are using our SIGHT, no other sense. So by this
POV, I can agree with the statement above.

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