Group # 3: Juarez, Lorena

Lisera, Emilce

Pallero, Georgina

.

APORIAGETTING LOST IN THE

WEBMATRIX

LIFE IS A DREAMALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

APORIA

Crisis of choice and action

We feel discomfort, paralized, we doubt. It follows the idea of “losing my way.” There is a feeling of “I don’t know how I

got here” and “I don’t know where to go next.”

There is a lack of knowledge and understanding.

The experience of Aporia reminds us our limits, the limits of our understanding, the limits of our language.

W W W (World Wide Web)

Rhizomatic System: it grows in all directions.

Hypertextual design: different textual material linked together and organized in a non-secuential format.

Links: bridges to other pages. Travellers choose a path to follow.

Getting lost in the web

travellers’ choice

Stay in leave known familiar content to pages unknown content

surprise confuse

experience disorientation in a strange location

MATRIX

Truth and Choices

Matrix tells us the story of a man named John “Neo” Anderson, who is obsessed with knowing what the Matrix is.

A rebel named Morpheus will give him the chance to see the truth about the Matrix, which would change his life forever, or to keep on living his normal life. All he has to do is to make up his mind and take a pill: the blue one or the red one, each one of them is the representation of his choice. At that moment, he experiences Aporia: he feels confused and does not know what to do next.

Neo chooses to find out the truth, and life as he knows it turns out being just a cover up; since, machines have taken over the world and human beings have become their food.

LIFE IS A DREAM

Identity Crisis

Segismund, one of the main characters of the play, has been in jail his whole life, since his father, the King,has been told that Segismund would be an evil heir.

Because of being emprisoned, the boy doubts of his condition as a human being and asks himself if life could not be just a dream.

He experiences Aporia all through his life because he wonders all the time what his existence is about, why he has to be in prison and what is out there.

His lack of knowledge and his confusion make of him an evil man who attacks people the first time he is out of jail. When he is given the chance to choose what he wants to be like, everybody, including him, realises he has the power to be a good King

ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

Truth and Choices

There are some men chained inside a cave, facing a wall, not being able to turn their heads to the sides. Behind the prisioners, there is a bonfire; and between these two, there is a raised walkway, along which people walk carrying things on their heads, including figures of animals and men made of wood and other materials. The men can only appreciate the shadows reflected in the wall.

One day, one of these men is released and knows the outside world. Being in touch with the sunlight for the first time, he is blinded. He experiments Aporia because he is confused and not knowing what to do next.

Fatal Choices

After being so confused, he decides to hide under a tree and realises for the first time that what he had seen in the cave was just the shadow of some other elements, just like the tree’s shadow.

He goes back to the cave and has to decide what to do: if telling what he has found out or remain silent. He finally tries to tell his mates what he has discovered but his eyes are now “corrupted” and he ends up being killed by his partners because of his knowledge.

So…?

WAY OF TEACHING

Teachers should help learners to make connections and

find the answers themselves.

Process of translation: to make associations between

what is familiar and what is unknown.

To think for themselves

LEARNING

Real questions: questions that puzzle, confuse, interest

Better way to teach. Make students think.

Four types of questions: Questions one knows how

to answer. Questions one does not

know how to answer. Questions one does not

know how to ask. Questions that cannot be

answered.

Conclusion In every topic we have dealt with, we can see that

the Aporia experience has been presented in the confusion felt by the characters and the choices made by them in each case.

When we surf the net, we feel as these people do: bewildered, not being sure of what to do next and having to make up our minds in order to continue.

In order to find the way out, a person should be exposed to several questions and situations to be able to learn how to solve the problems he/she may have.

SOURCES  “Aporia: Webs, Passages, Getting Lost, and Learning to

go on.” Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois, Urbana/champaign http://es.dreamstime.com/world-wide-web-image5552186 http://kunaljanu.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/making-decisions/ http://www.sinapsis.es/02_s/st/index.jsp?articulo=/02_s/st/

10_2004/reflexion.jsp http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/PlatosCave.gif www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com http://lamarmitacora.wordpress.com/