Human memory is story-based. Ours is a world of stories. Our students and we need to understand how to most effectively use these powerful technologies. For the experiential exercise, participants will break out into small groups. A critical look at storytelling.
Truth is usually stranger than fiction.
We intentionally excluded key passages from two of the quotes above. Ours is a world of stories. We know them, find them, reconsider them, manipulate them , use them to understand the world and to operate in the world, adapt them to new purposes, tell them in new ways, and invent them. We all remember being reprimanded as children for telling stories. The motivations of individual storytellers, both in the classroom and in real organizations are at times suspect.