Identifying What You Don’t Know
What is the physical object you do not understand?
Wherever you are, look around you. Find a physical object in your immediate field of view that you can’t explain.
What is the physical object you do not understand?
List one thing about the physical object that you do not understand.
List three things you would need to learn to understand what you wrote for your answer to Question 2. (List them in the format provided below.) ex.1. Thing I need to learn 12. Thing I need to learn 23. Thing I need to learn 3
List three questions you would need to ask to understand more about what you listed in Question 3.
(For example: You don’t know anything about how the art on your cereal box is chosen. You know there are colors and images associated with the brand, but how are those images arranged and who makes the decisions? There is a lot of text on your cereal box, as well. Who writes that, and what is its purpose? The terminology in your explanation would get more specific once you did some research.)
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