{"id":14284,"date":"2016-10-12T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nwcenter\/?post_type=questionslibrary&#038;p=2408"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:16:21","slug":"other-way-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"questionslibrary","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/questionslibrary\/other-way-to-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Way to Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What does it mean to hear something?<\/li>\n<li>Is hearing the same as listening?<\/li>\n<li>The book tell us that\u00a0the old man \u201calways asked himself hard questions that take a while to answer.\u201d\u00a0Who decides how long we have to answer a question?<\/li>\n<li>Why do some questions take longer to answer than other ones?<\/li>\n<li>Are there advantages of taking more time before answering a question?<\/li>\n<li>Can we learn from the following things? Why or why not?\n<ul>\n<li>Hills<\/li>\n<li>Ants<\/li>\n<li>Trees<\/li>\n<li>The stars<\/li>\n<li>Weeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Does a teacher always need to be a human? An adult?\u00a0 Why or why not?<\/li>\n<li>What else can be a teacher? Why?<\/li>\n<li>Do you agree or disagree that sometimes it is important we spend time alone? Why?<\/li>\n<li>The old man describes how, \u201cYou have to respect that tree,\u201d if you want to hear it and that \u201cif you think you\u2019re better than that thing, you\u2019ll never hear its voice.\u201d What does he mean?<\/li>\n<li>What is silence? Can there be noise and it still be silent?<\/li>\n<li>Can we learn anything from silence?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Follow Up Activity: Solo Sit Spot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This activity is best done if teachers have access to an outdoor space, a large yard, field, forest, or playground.\u00a0 However, it could be accommodated to a classroom where each student finds a quiet spot to sit with distance between themselves and other students.<\/p>\n<p>Each student will practice sitting alone and just listening for anywhere form 5-20 minutes depending on the age and time constraints.\u00a0 This activity is nicely paired\u00a0with a sound map, where student can try to draw the sound they hear around them.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Contributed by Morgan Lindberg<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2409,"template":"","dqcategories":[373],"class_list":["post-14284","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-ethics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Other Way to Listen - PLATO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Other Way to Listen - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What does it mean to hear something? 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