This article explains the concept of “spatialization”. Spatialization is where you space out your thoughts and think about each different part more in depth. If your thoughts were cramped together it would be harder to think about each part and decipher information from that part. Spatialization is used in many different ways, like sports, arts, school, studying, work, and some others. In sports you can use spatialization by spreading out the people on the court or field. If people were crammed on the playing area they wouldn’t be able to run plays that would work or they wouldn’t be able to successful get the ball to one another. In arts if you cram your work together you won’t be able to see an image clear and you wouldn’t be able to understand what is going on in the picture. In school if you don’t spatialize you won’t be organized and it will be much harder to get your work done on time and get your work at your highest level. Also if you don’t spatialize at work it will be hard to know what you’re supposed to be doing and when. All your work would be cramped together and you wouldn’t know how to prioritize it. Spatialization also includes translating images from 2D to 3D. This is because you would have to think about how to get the image into 3D by using spatialization. Also finding the distance properties of things like adjacency, proximity, similarity, nearest neighbor, crow-fly distance, or "over-the-road" distance. Comprehending maps and atlases also is using spatial thinking because you have to think about where the things are on the map and figure out how far away they actually are from each other. Finding longitude, latitude and local street addresses and numbers are also spatial thinking because you if you looked on a map you would have to think about how far the streets are from one another. We also use spatial thinking by finding good locations for cities because if your city is in a desert no one is going to want to live there so you have to think spatially on where the city should be. Where there are bad living conditions there shouldn’t be people living there because either its dangerous or there isn’t enough food and water to go around. The shape of states and countries is also thinking spatially because the people in the state or country had to fight for some of the land so they thought spatially to figure out what is theirs and what isn’t. Using highways and roadways is very spatial because if you had some highways going into each other it would cause crashes and other dangerous situations so they had to space things out so it’s safer for traveling. This article connects to me in many ways. In sports I use spatial thinking by knowing where I’m supposed to be at on the court or field in order to get my job done. In football I’m only supposed to worry about my part of the field. So if I didn’t use spatial thinking would be running all over the place and I wouldn’t be as affective or my spot that I’m supposed to be at would be weaker. In basketball I use spatial thinking by knowing where I’m supposed to be on the court because if I’m in the wrong spot I could be disrupting someone else’s job and make their contributions weaker. When I am driving I use spatial thinking by staying in my lane so I don’t crash into other cars. If I didn’t use spatial thinking I would be driving where ever I want and I would put my life in danger and also other peoples life. When I am at work I use spatial thinking by staying at my own area so the number of workers is the same at each place.
There were many things that I learned from this article. Things such as how we use spatial thinking in everyday life, we use it when were driving, we use it when were playing sport and I could go on for awhile. But nobody realizes that spatial thinking is something that a lot of people should know about. There are many famous people that have created things and are big around the world that also use spatial thinking as well. This article teaches us about the many ways that people use spatial thinking throughout the world. Some of the things that it says in the article are things such as how we really do not know how our mind works, which is true. Not everything that we think about will just come to our head right away. We have to have time to think about things before we say or do them. The other thing behind that said that without us being taught and us learning, we would not have good spatial skills. Without good spatial skills, we wouldn’t have minds of our own today. If everyone always thought of the same things as everyone else, we wouldn’t be ourselves, meaning we would not all be our own person. Some of the ways that people use spatial thinking are by using things near it or by it. Such as one way to finding a car in a parking lot is by looking at the cars near it. Some of the cars though in the parking lot may look the same. So may be by looking at stores or other attractions near it could also help you find your car. A lot of spatial thinking includes things such as making maps and diagrams, being aware of spatial networks and highways, developing map-reading skills, etc. Spatial thinking is something that everyone uses in a daily routine. Even when you think you are not using spatial when you go on the same route every day, you are still using that same mind set on where you are going. I know that by reading this article I have used spatial thinking many times in my life. I could take the example of the car in the parking lot because I also have trouble’s finding my car in a big mall parking lot. I never had thought of looking at big attractions around it especially when I go to either the College Square Mall or the Crossroads mall. But I use the thought of cars next to mine to find it. I look at the kind of car it is, the color, whether it is a truck or just a regular car, and the size of the car. Another one of my experiences when reading this article that I thought of was using spatial thinking while playing soccer. Soccer is not a sport that is just luck, like what most people would think of it as. But it is a game of skill and thought. There are so many people out on the field that you have to look at: whether that person on your team is being guarded by someone else or if you have the right to pass the ball to them. I have been playing soccer since I was a little kid and I don’t think I started using spatial thinking in soccer till I was about 10 or 11 years old. When a little kid on the field sees the ball, all they do is go running for it and everyone at once is running towards the ball. But once you get older and you start to see things a lot more clear, the field has gotten bigger and the thought of the game in my mind changed. You have to know where you are, everyone has their own position, etc. The last experience I have used spatial thinking is when I’m driving. I have drove to a place by myself for 4 hours before but when I’m here around town and I go to a new place or a person’s house, that place or house and other things around it get set into my head. I see all the little details around it, meaning I would be detail oriented. I’m one of those people that can see things differently from other people, and everyone is that way as well. Not everyone has the same mind set as everyone else. We all have our own thoughts and details that we see, when other people do not see what we see. Not everyone is aware that spatial thinking is one of the most important parts of who a person really is.
If anyone was unaware of the huge presence that spatial thinking has in our daily lives, they would be in for quite a shock upon reading this article. Any doubt in my mind that spatial thinking was in anyways limited to more specific areas of life was quickly erased after a little less than the first paragraph. The article begins by simply informing that spatial thinking is everywhere that that we use it daily without even knowing. It then goes on to state some of the components of spatial thinking, most of which sound like skills limited to only navigation and layout. Upon further reading we soon find that layout and navigation doesn’t necessarily apply to only wide scale situations. In reality, spatial thinking can apply to situations as small as you binder or notebook. But things aren’t made spatially attractive, which is why we as spatial thinkers must put our skills to the test to make them so. Landscapes, populations, restaurants, people – the article includes them all in the mess of data in need or spatial organizing. In the conclusion of the article, the author states: “We use spatial thinking and reasoning to help us comprehend and use the different environments in which we live.” This statement could not be more factual if it tried. Surrounded by spatial thinking everyday in every way imaginable, we use this skill without even thinking about it! It’s interesting how we try to force the environment around us, into a form more approachable for our spatial thinking to work. Perhaps that’s why our cities and towns revolve around a grid like form, the attempts to organize our lives into an easier way of living. That seems to be what people feel most comfortable with – the knowledge or discovery of regular, spatially appealing things. For example, in Paris, There are three monuments, all perfectly aligned with each other, but miles apart. In our homes, we organize everything from the house design it’s self, to the rooms, and the drawers of our dressers. Even the pile of who knows what on my floor can be thought of spatially. Because, no matter how chaotic is may look to my poor mother, I know exactly where to dig if I need something in particular.
Old news papers or handouts? The bottom right corner, near the bottom of the rug. Even though it may not look like a very approachable map from the top, my spatial thinking is working, to visualize that nice pile into a navigable area. Even if that system works for the time being, I will hopefully get around to picking it up this weekend, and enlisting the help of spatial thinking once more as I relocate items to various locations around my room and house. People have told me that I have a keen sense of direction, or at least I am able to find my way around and orient myself in my surroundings. Another section of the article talks about comprehending orientation and direction – where North is, what angle is the clock from your position? Presumably this is how I am able to find my way around. My position isn’t based so much off of north, south, east or west, but more so of my position relative to known landmarks, and a general knowledge of layout. For example, in a ‘normal` city, I can usually find places based off of the standard grid, and the placement of a few landmarks, which turn into a sort of birds eye view in my head of where I and where I want to go. With this trusty map formulated inside my head, I am ready to explore and discover my new surroundings. The map in the head is particularly helpful because it can ultimately become whatever it needs to be. If you need to move to a different area, you can just slide your mental image over a little. If you need to remember the location of something, your mind can stick a nice little flag up to wave you back. With spatial thinking, your mind can become your definitive Google Earth, specially designed and formatted just to fit your needs, and designed to think exactly like you do. But hardly anyone’s mind works to that extent and power, which is why we have spatial thinking to develop maps to arrange it for us!
The article that we read in class was first about how basically everything around us requires us to use spatial thinking, and how wide spread it is. Then from them showing us how wide spread it is, they actually give us a helpful deep meaning of what it is. From the paragraph where they explain it, it really helped me understand better what it is. It tells us that develops our map and reading skills, as well as our ability to understand directions. This reading made us aware that we use spatial thinking all the time, and without even knowing it. Before I read this I thought that spatial thinking just had to do with maps and directions, but it also has to do with how we look at something like a newspaper, or when we try to find our car in a parking lot. I found it really interesting that really famous people pretty much became famous because of their spatial thinking skills. Take any artist or sculptor for example, they’re famous because of the art they make. While making that art they have to place where everything goes on the paper. Or for sculptors they have to know where to place the right piece of clay, or whatever they’re using. Besides just artists other people like athletes use spatial thinking a lot too, like Michelle Kwan as an ice skater. Whenever she’s out there doing her thing on the ice she has to think probably before every jump so that she knows how she’ll land and also how far she has on the ice before she has to start turning so she doesn’t run into a wall. I can relate to both being an artist and to being an athlete. I like to draw a lot, and I know now that without spatial thinking I wouldn’t be able to place things in my drawing where I wanted without it. I also am a pitcher for softball and without spatial thinking I don’t think I would do very well and the ball probably wouldn’t even make it all the way to the catcher’s glove. Other things besides just my hobbies are like driving my car. Not only do I not want to hit things with the car, but also I can remember how to navigate myself around my town and surrounding towns without getting lost. I also like to rearrange my room often, without spatial thinking all my furniture would be in my room..But it wouldn’t be placed so that I could use all of it. Then three nights later when I get up in the middle of the night to go get a drink, I’m able to walk to my room without bumping into things or falling. Overall what I learned from this website reading was how important spatial thinking is to us. From just walking out of your room to professional map makers making maps. If no one had spatial thinking I would assume that our world would be an unorganized mess.
In this article about spatial thinking they talk about different ways spatial thinking can be used in our lives. From talking about jobs that entail using this or just ways you would use it in everyday life. I think spatial thinking is needed and/or used in daily life more than people would expect, because we use it in so many different ways. The website explains what spatial thinking is, without giving a generic definition. It tells people ways that spatial thinking is used, to help you figure out what it is, without telling you up front. It basically says that spatial thinking is when you need to know how something is constructed or how close something is to another object in relation to each other, all of this being done usually without a plan. In the article, it explains the different things that use spatial thinking, like sports. I used to play basketball and I had to use my spatial thinking whenever I would pass the ball or shoot a basket, because I didn’t know the measurement of how far away things were away from me, so I just basically had to guess. The way I think about it, it can also be used when trying to predict prices or the winner of a big game, or anything else that doesn’t necessarily have to do with literal space on the earth. If you think about it, when you predict these things, you have to go off of previous information about whatever you are predicting, and then you make sort of a guess about what you think will happen or become of it in the future. The article also talks about how our minds do not always register things that would help with spatial thinking, immediately. We all need to learn the “spatial reasoning process” to almost always be accurate in our spatial thinking. The spatial thinking process would help us most when walking to places close that we have done previously so they are repeated. The article also brought to attention the fact that we use spatial thinking when we are storing or sorting information. When we put things into categories in our brains because we get overwhelmed with information, we are using spatial thinking. We apparently do not know much about our minds, as mentioned on the website. We need to use spatial thinking often in our lives and geography is needed in the process of learning about spatial thinking and getting better at using it.
This article explains the concept of “spatialization”. Spatialization is where you space out your thoughts and think about each different part more in depth. If your thoughts were cramped together it would be harder to think about each part and decipher information from that part. Spatialization is used in many different ways, like sports, arts, school, studying, work, and some others. In sports you can use spatialization by spreading out the people on the court or field. If people were crammed on the playing area they wouldn’t be able to run plays that would work or they wouldn’t be able to successful get the ball to one another. In arts if you cram your work together you won’t be able to see an image clear and you wouldn’t be able to understand what is going on in the picture. In school if you don’t spatialize you won’t be organized and it will be much harder to get your work done on time and get your work at your highest level. Also if you don’t spatialize at work it will be hard to know what you’re supposed to be doing and when. All your work would be cramped together and you wouldn’t know how to prioritize it.
ReplyDeleteSpatialization also includes translating images from 2D to 3D. This is because you would have to think about how to get the image into 3D by using spatialization. Also finding the distance properties of things like adjacency, proximity, similarity, nearest neighbor, crow-fly distance, or "over-the-road" distance. Comprehending maps and atlases also is using spatial thinking because you have to think about where the things are on the map and figure out how far away they actually are from each other. Finding longitude, latitude and local street addresses and numbers are also spatial thinking because you if you looked on a map you would have to think about how far the streets are from one another. We also use spatial thinking by finding good locations for cities because if your city is in a desert no one is going to want to live there so you have to think spatially on where the city should be. Where there are bad living conditions there shouldn’t be people living there because either its dangerous or there isn’t enough food and water to go around. The shape of states and countries is also thinking spatially because the people in the state or country had to fight for some of the land so they thought spatially to figure out what is theirs and what isn’t. Using highways and roadways is very spatial because if you had some highways going into each other it would cause crashes and other dangerous situations so they had to space things out so it’s safer for traveling.
This article connects to me in many ways. In sports I use spatial thinking by knowing where I’m supposed to be at on the court or field in order to get my job done. In football I’m only supposed to worry about my part of the field. So if I didn’t use spatial thinking would be running all over the place and I wouldn’t be as affective or my spot that I’m supposed to be at would be weaker. In basketball I use spatial thinking by knowing where I’m supposed to be on the court because if I’m in the wrong spot I could be disrupting someone else’s job and make their contributions weaker. When I am driving I use spatial thinking by staying in my lane so I don’t crash into other cars. If I didn’t use spatial thinking I would be driving where ever I want and I would put my life in danger and also other peoples life. When I am at work I use spatial thinking by staying at my own area so the number of workers is the same at each place.
There were many things that I learned from this article. Things such as how we use spatial thinking in everyday life, we use it when were driving, we use it when were playing sport and I could go on for awhile. But nobody realizes that spatial thinking is something that a lot of people should know about. There are many famous people that have created things and are big around the world that also use spatial thinking as well.
ReplyDeleteThis article teaches us about the many ways that people use spatial thinking throughout the world. Some of the things that it says in the article are things such as how we really do not know how our mind works, which is true. Not everything that we think about will just come to our head right away. We have to have time to think about things before we say or do them. The other thing behind that said that without us being taught and us learning, we would not have good spatial skills. Without good spatial skills, we wouldn’t have minds of our own today. If everyone always thought of the same things as everyone else, we wouldn’t be ourselves, meaning we would not all be our own person.
Some of the ways that people use spatial thinking are by using things near it or by it. Such as one way to finding a car in a parking lot is by looking at the cars near it. Some of the cars though in the parking lot may look the same. So may be by looking at stores or other attractions near it could also help you find your car.
A lot of spatial thinking includes things such as making maps and diagrams, being aware of spatial networks and highways, developing map-reading skills, etc. Spatial thinking is something that everyone uses in a daily routine. Even when you think you are not using spatial when you go on the same route every day, you are still using that same mind set on where you are going.
I know that by reading this article I have used spatial thinking many times in my life. I could take the example of the car in the parking lot because I also have trouble’s finding my car in a big mall parking lot. I never had thought of looking at big attractions around it especially when I go to either the College Square Mall or the Crossroads mall. But I use the thought of cars next to mine to find it. I look at the kind of car it is, the color, whether it is a truck or just a regular car, and the size of the car.
Another one of my experiences when reading this article that I thought of was using spatial thinking while playing soccer. Soccer is not a sport that is just luck, like what most people would think of it as. But it is a game of skill and thought. There are so many people out on the field that you have to look at: whether that person on your team is being guarded by someone else or if you have the right to pass the ball to them. I have been playing soccer since I was a little kid and I don’t think I started using spatial thinking in soccer till I was about 10 or 11 years old. When a little kid on the field sees the ball, all they do is go running for it and everyone at once is running towards the ball. But once you get older and you start to see things a lot more clear, the field has gotten bigger and the thought of the game in my mind changed. You have to know where you are, everyone has their own position, etc.
The last experience I have used spatial thinking is when I’m driving. I have drove to a place by myself for 4 hours before but when I’m here around town and I go to a new place or a person’s house, that place or house and other things around it get set into my head. I see all the little details around it, meaning I would be detail oriented. I’m one of those people that can see things differently from other people, and everyone is that way as well. Not everyone has the same mind set as everyone else. We all have our own thoughts and details that we see, when other people do not see what we see. Not everyone is aware that spatial thinking is one of the most important parts of who a person really is.
If anyone was unaware of the huge presence that spatial thinking has in our daily lives, they would be in for quite a shock upon reading this article. Any doubt in my mind that spatial thinking was in anyways limited to more specific areas of life was quickly erased after a little less than the first paragraph. The article begins by simply informing that spatial thinking is everywhere that that we use it daily without even knowing. It then goes on to state some of the components of spatial thinking, most of which sound like skills limited to only navigation and layout. Upon further reading we soon find that layout and navigation doesn’t necessarily apply to only wide scale situations. In reality, spatial thinking can apply to situations as small as you binder or notebook. But things aren’t made spatially attractive, which is why we as spatial thinkers must put our skills to the test to make them so. Landscapes, populations, restaurants, people – the article includes them all in the mess of data in need or spatial organizing.
ReplyDeleteIn the conclusion of the article, the author states: “We use spatial thinking and reasoning to help us comprehend and use the different environments in which we live.” This statement could not be more factual if it tried. Surrounded by spatial thinking everyday in every way imaginable, we use this skill without even thinking about it!
It’s interesting how we try to force the environment around us, into a form more approachable for our spatial thinking to work. Perhaps that’s why our cities and towns revolve around a grid like form, the attempts to organize our lives into an easier way of living. That seems to be what people feel most comfortable with – the knowledge or discovery of regular, spatially appealing things. For example, in Paris, There are three monuments, all perfectly aligned with each other, but miles apart. In our homes, we organize everything from the house design it’s self, to the rooms, and the drawers of our dressers. Even the pile of who knows what on my floor can be thought of spatially. Because, no matter how chaotic is may look to my poor mother, I know exactly where to dig if I need something in particular.
Old news papers or handouts? The bottom right corner, near the bottom of the rug. Even though it may not look like a very approachable map from the top, my spatial thinking is working, to visualize that nice pile into a navigable area. Even if that system works for the time being, I will hopefully get around to picking it up this weekend, and enlisting the help of spatial thinking once more as I relocate items to various locations around my room and house.
ReplyDeletePeople have told me that I have a keen sense of direction, or at least I am able to find my way around and orient myself in my surroundings. Another section of the article talks about comprehending orientation and direction – where North is, what angle is the clock from your position? Presumably this is how I am able to find my way around. My position isn’t based so much off of north, south, east or west, but more so of my position relative to known landmarks, and a general knowledge of layout. For example, in a ‘normal` city, I can usually find places based off of the standard grid, and the placement of a few landmarks, which turn into a sort of birds eye view in my head of where I and where I want to go. With this trusty map formulated inside my head, I am ready to explore and discover my new surroundings. The map in the head is particularly helpful because it can ultimately become whatever it needs to be. If you need to move to a different area, you can just slide your mental image over a little. If you need to remember the location of something, your mind can stick a nice little flag up to wave you back. With spatial thinking, your mind can become your definitive Google Earth, specially designed and formatted just to fit your needs, and designed to think exactly like you do. But hardly anyone’s mind works to that extent and power, which is why we have spatial thinking to develop maps to arrange it for us!
The article that we read in class was first about how basically everything around us requires us to use spatial thinking, and how wide spread it is. Then from them showing us how wide spread it is, they actually give us a helpful deep meaning of what it is. From the paragraph where they explain it, it really helped me understand better what it is. It tells us that develops our map and reading skills, as well as our ability to understand directions.
ReplyDeleteThis reading made us aware that we use spatial thinking all the time, and without even knowing it. Before I read this I thought that spatial thinking just had to do with maps and directions, but it also has to do with how we look at something like a newspaper, or when we try to find our car in a parking lot.
I found it really interesting that really famous people pretty much became famous because of their spatial thinking skills. Take any artist or sculptor for example, they’re famous because of the art they make. While making that art they have to place where everything goes on the paper. Or for sculptors they have to know where to place the right piece of clay, or whatever they’re using. Besides just artists other people like athletes use spatial thinking a lot too, like Michelle Kwan as an ice skater. Whenever she’s out there doing her thing on the ice she has to think probably before every jump so that she knows how she’ll land and also how far she has on the ice before she has to start turning so she doesn’t run into a wall.
I can relate to both being an artist and to being an athlete. I like to draw a lot, and I know now that without spatial thinking I wouldn’t be able to place things in my drawing where I wanted without it. I also am a pitcher for softball and without spatial thinking I don’t think I would do very well and the ball probably wouldn’t even make it all the way to the catcher’s glove.
Other things besides just my hobbies are like driving my car. Not only do I not want to hit things with the car, but also I can remember how to navigate myself around my town and surrounding towns without getting lost. I also like to rearrange my room often, without spatial thinking all my furniture would be in my room..But it wouldn’t be placed so that I could use all of it. Then three nights later when I get up in the middle of the night to go get a drink, I’m able to walk to my room without bumping into things or falling.
Overall what I learned from this website reading was how important spatial thinking is to us. From just walking out of your room to professional map makers making maps. If no one had spatial thinking I would assume that our world would be an unorganized mess.
In this article about spatial thinking they talk about different ways spatial thinking can be used in our lives. From talking about jobs that entail using this or just ways you would use it in everyday life. I think spatial thinking is needed and/or used in daily life more than people would expect, because we use it in so many different ways. The website explains what spatial thinking is, without giving a generic definition. It tells people ways that spatial thinking is used, to help you figure out what it is, without telling you up front. It basically says that spatial thinking is when you need to know how something is constructed or how close something is to another object in relation to each other, all of this being done usually without a plan.
ReplyDeleteIn the article, it explains the different things that use spatial thinking, like sports. I used to play basketball and I had to use my spatial thinking whenever I would pass the ball or shoot a basket, because I didn’t know the measurement of how far away things were away from me, so I just basically had to guess. The way I think about it, it can also be used when trying to predict prices or the winner of a big game, or anything else that doesn’t necessarily have to do with literal space on the earth. If you think about it, when you predict these things, you have to go off of previous information about whatever you are predicting, and then you make sort of a guess about what you think will happen or become of it in the future.
The article also talks about how our minds do not always register things that would help with spatial thinking, immediately. We all need to learn the “spatial reasoning process” to almost always be accurate in our spatial thinking. The spatial thinking process would help us most when walking to places close that we have done previously so they are repeated.
The article also brought to attention the fact that we use spatial thinking when we are storing or sorting information. When we put things into categories in our brains because we get overwhelmed with information, we are using spatial thinking.
We apparently do not know much about our minds, as mentioned on the website. We need to use spatial thinking often in our lives and geography is needed in the process of learning about spatial thinking and getting better at using it.