Mindful Monday's Hearing Adventures

Today was a full day of thinking for us.     We started  critical thinking and communicating using a discussion thread and global mind  in brightspace (don't forget to show your parents our shell)

We were  dipping into and expanding our background knowledge about hearing and sound, connecting this thinking to a text-world connection about a new design invention called "the sound shirt", which allows people who are deaf and hard of hearing to "feel" music.  Check out this link to a video we watched today that demonstrates the power of this new and exciting invention:  The Sound Shirt

This new invention gave us a text-text connection back to the design thinking cycle.

We were able to see how real world designers used this cycle to create a design that solves a world problem by empathizing with a group who have a particular need, then design prototypes to test and take the feedback from their audience (the deaf) to redesign and come up with the final prototype which is now being used by these individuals to "feel" and enjoy classical music.  Hearing is an important sense and it just goes to show you that if you think outside of the box you can use innovative technology to enhance another sense (feeling) to support the missing one.  This conversation made us come up with all kinds of questions for the designers.

For example, we wondered:
"Could the sound shirt work with other kinds of music?"
"Is the sound shirt waterproof?"  "If it is then can you hear underwater sounds?"
 "Did the designers use biomimicry to come up with the design, looking to insects who hear through touch?"  "How much does it cost?"

Here is a photo of our deconstruction of the stages in the cycle:

I am so proud of the metacognition that you all demonstrated today.