What is academic research? How can it enrich my proposed project?
Today we will meet in disciplinary groups or proposal focus groups. (Advisors, please be prepared to direct student to new locales and take attendance using the spreadsheet. Groups will be comprised of the following:
1) Students who have complete proposals and have met with Addie - ready to begin research!
2) Students who have project experience but have not met with Addie because they were at WEF yesterday - ready to begin research, but may not have annotations set up; these students could review the annotation resources independently today, knowing they will work with Addie on Thursday.
3) Students who are new to projects and may not have proposals that are ready for research - should continue to revise proposals and find research to respond to closed questions. These students will meet with Addie tomorrow.
Disciplinary groups will focus on getting to know one another's questions and project ideas as well as working to get everyone to or past the beginning point of academic research.
DO NOW: Students and staff work together to get into disciplinary groups and into Addie's workshop for today. Once students arrive, get ready to share project ideas by opening proposal documents on Chromebooks and reviewing driving questions.
TIMI (Science Room)
MOLLY (Dance Studio)
TIM/ERIN (Engineering Room)
MIKE (Drama Room)
STUART (Visual Art Room)
KIMBERLY (3307)
DAN (Writing Room)
DREW (Music Room)
ADDIE (Cafeteria)
GATHERING: Circle up! Take turns sharing out driving questions and project ideas! (Even if a student is not quite ready with a complete proposal, they should share out ideas.) At the end of the sharing out, identify topics, characteristics, goals that projects have in common. Document these in the room.
RESOURCES: As a group, identify a list of essential resources for the week. List each one on a whiteboard and discuss/note their importance for different goals.
Example: This blog! Important for knowing what is going on on a daily basis - helping us know whether we are on track, get important links, and find out if we've missed anything while away.
STUDIO TIME:
- Set a goal for studio time: What will you complete/revise by the end of IDEAS Project Block today?
- Write a work plan for studio time: What steps will you need to take, in order to complete your goal? What resources will you use?
- Set a stretch goal for studio time: If you finish your goal, what will you do next?
REFLECTION: Share out successes from today's studio time.
