Learning Ideastesia Service Technology (LIST) is a program geared towards using sense-connection to core academic content. The vision is to build software to mimic the process of synesthesia, that is the blending of senses in retaining information. As studies conducted by the Boston University and the Dominican University of Los Angeles of discovered, those who can link abstract ideas into concrete connections remember and understand more.
In order to turn this notion into a reality, LIST aims to code software designed to build a clear set of templates for teachers and instructors to break down academic content into visualized patterns of presentations. In order to implement its practice, the core components of lessons must be broken into itemized progression of interrelated facets. These components will be assigned numeric values based on their connections to other components, be they order of importance, chronology, or effect.
The software will offer and menu bar of options on how to present a lesson, such options will include color coding, (assign colors based on related patterns). Spatial layout (can be utilized with the option of 1, 2 or 3 dimensions to display components left to right, up to down, from to back or a combination of two of three) or sounds connections (with volume and pitch connected to scaled information). Examples of such presentations include.
Presenting basic mathematic functions through the Cartesian Plane, with addition and subtraction on the X axis and multiplication and division on X and Y, visually demonstrating the relation of all four functions.
Displaying sounds combinations in language to display letters and patterns of color coordination to show sounds mixes and possible links to semantic connections.
Present timelines of historic events on X axis and using Y axis to connect other components of history such as events patterns, cultural connections and leadership tendencies.
Display the components of chemicals and how different compounds pieces together (again color or spatial connection) to form chemical reactions and categorizations. Consider it the Periodic Table taken to the next level.
Display the different colors, color relations, color wheels and patterns of painting styles by highlighting physical layout and proportions.
These are a few examples of how the forms, functions and patterns of academic content can be systematized and displayed on a Promethean Board for a classroom and remote login students simultaneously. With this software designing the technical side of information patterns, (left brain functions) this will liberate the teacher to walk through the process using creative (right brain functions) of teaching.
While walking students through lessons with instructions like “notice how this is on the left and this on the right, or this is red and this in yellow,” they can build further analogies to the content, connecting it with things like video games and cartoon students can relate to. The code will provide the framework to show how to pieces of the information puzzle work.