Texting

Short description

Learn to express thoughts concisely.

Process description

1. Participants are asked to send a fictional text message with 11 words to a person they know (school director, school board member, spouse, child, etc.) at the end of a meeting or after a session of a conference.

2. The messages are then read aloud.

Required resources

• Paper

• Pencil

Examples

Positive atmosphere:

• Sharpened perception

• 5 days really learning by doing

• An intensive week with many experiences

• Doubts disappeared

• Model actually feasible

• Successful week

• Great methods

Feedback:

• Tiring discussion

• Extravagant claims

• Dreamers and malcontents

• Utter frustration

Comments

The restriction helps to concentrate on the most essential substance. Severe brevity of the form can generate linguistic creativity.

PSI: https://psi.methopedia.eu/learning-activity/sms