Coming home late from celebrating my sons 15th birthday, we switched on the television and saw the twin tower billowing with smoke. It seemed that every channel was focused on this disturbing picture. “What’s happening?” my husband asked. We all stood riveted in front of the television and listened as the CNN news anchor announced the shocking news that a plane flew into one of the Twin Towers. I went into my room for a few minutes only to hear my families shocked gasps! I hurried out. It was a shocking site to see. I watched as they replayed the scene on the television. You could hear the anxious speculations in their voices. I watched the scene repeating as another plane crash into the second tower. I remember a cold and clammy feeling of dread and fear. My trembling lips whispered “What’s happening? “. as I held on to my husbands hand. He looked at me steadily and replyed "I don't know? ".
The decision to keep my children at home or send them to school was weighing on my mind. My husband made the decision for me. “We shouldn’t let what happened scare us. Send the kids to school, everything will be fine”.
Ten years have passed and that dreadful and ominous day is a sad memory to us. What is so distressing, is every year my son has to share his birthday with the haunting reminder, of one of the most tragic and unfortunate events that America has experienced.
It's the visual images that we seek out. See it with our own two eyes. Later we may turn to audio or text, but visual communication is clearly the most powerful. What form does education use the most to communicate information to our students? Text, audio, or visual?
ReplyDeleteI believe that visual has more impact. When you visually see an image of something. It could be a cute kitten or a even a picture of someone looking up at a smoking and burning building your eyes transfer the image to your brain and then your imagination takes hold. For students this helps them to write what creatively and expressively. Not all writings will be exactly alike.
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