silent post

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Silent mail (also known as whisper mail ) is a breeze and a method of awareness education. The term is also used symbolically for the falsification of messages through multiple informal forwarding.

regulate

During the game, the participants (the more, the better) arrange themselves in a row or a circle. A player makes up a message. This message is now passed on in a whisper from mouth to ear from one participant to the respective neighbor. The fun of the game results from the following resolution, in which the last person in the row says aloud what he understood as a message. The increasing falsification of the original message can be documented by the fact that each participant repeats the understood message out loud for everyone, which also increases the number of laughs.

rating

In pedagogy, older children and adolescents can also explain the emergence of rumors or misunderstandings , as news can change through subjective perception when it is passed on.

variants

A variant of silent mail lets the first player write a sentence on a piece of paper. The next player then draws a picture for this sentence. The next but one player writes another sentence for this picture and so it continues until the game is resolved with one sentence.

Another version of Silent Mail has the first player read a long story aloud to their partner. In the next round, another partner joins the story who has not heard the story and is told by the previous person, etc. The viewers recognize the interpretation and filtering behavior very well.

Didactic use

In the field of perception education, a form of 'silent mail' is used, with which the sensitive body perception is challenged and trained: It is about using touches and movements with a finger on the back of a fellow player to convey signals and signs that he decodes should. It makes sense to send or receive a message via tactile stimuli. In the optimal case, a non-verbal conversation is achieved via the sensory organ skin , in which the messages about the body feeling are understood.

The level of difficulty of the task can be progressively increased depending on age and growing body feeling. Simple exercises can be started as early as preschool age and the level of aspiration can be increased into adulthood: Starting with the task of locating individual pressure points following one another on the back, gradually recognizing simple geometric shapes such as circles, rectangles, squares, Triangle required. This is followed by numbers and letters and finally also complicated figures and whole words and messages that are to be transmitted and decoded “by post”. For advanced users, the silent post can develop into a mutual dialogue in which the players exchange ideas with one another in the form of a question-and-answer game.

One variant of the perception training is about communicating with each other using sign language : an object such as a bicycle or an event such as shopping or an accident is to be mimicked with gestures and facial expressions in pure body language and decoded by the observer as precisely as possible. This requires physical expressiveness on the one hand and a corresponding capacity for perception and empathy on the other.

International names

The game is known by a variety of names in many other cultures as well.

  • In English-speaking countries, among other things, as (translated) Chinese whispering, telephone or Russian scandal .
  • In French as an Arabic telephone (téléphone arabe) or as a cordless telephone (téléphone sans fil).

literature

  • Siegbert A. Warwitz: We learn to perceive the body and movement. In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceiving - playing - thinking - acting. 6th edition. Cutter. Baltmannsweiler 2009. pp. 97/98. ISBN 978-3-8340-0563-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. Barbara Schniebel: Silent Mail. In: Planning a children's birthday. March 31, 2011, accessed February 4, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Siegbert A. Warwitz: We learn to perceive the body and movement. In: Ders .: Traffic education from the child. Perceiving - playing - thinking - acting. 6th edition. Cutter. Baltmannsweiler 2009. pp. 97/98.