The continued focus this week is on research and annotation. Please use your group norms and emphasize the importance of documenting thinking: studio goals and reflections, annotations, concept maps, definitions, sketches, prototypes, professional models and thinking routines. Keep it all.
GATHERING: So what?
Purpose: Reconnecting with the significance of projects, going beyond what is already known and made.
- Quick Jot (write for 5 minutes without stopping): What is it about your project that prevents anyone from saying "So what?" after you tell them about it? What is your personal commitment to the ideas, emotions, and outcomes of your project? If someone took this project away from you, what would you still be fighting for? If someone were going to provide $100,000 of funding to just one IDEAS Block Project, why should it be yours?
- Highlight 10 key words/phrases
- Share out (Challenge each other...so what?)
- Compare these 10 words/phrases to your Headline from last week.
- Pair Share: How are you doing? What do you need?
STUDIO TIME: Replicate your agreed upon norms for setting and documenting goals, generating/suggesting studio time activities, and reflection at the end of the time.
(Note: Staff are encouraged to share sources with students.)
(Note: Staff are encouraged to share sources with students.)
REFLECTION: Credibility of Research
Purpose: Provide an opportunity to confirm or challenge quality of research sources.
- Circle Up
- Share one source, explain the characteristics that make the source credible
- Document characteristics of credible sources for the group.
NOTES:
- Don't forget about the VisArts mind map. Posted in the hallway outside of the office. Aspire!
- All students will be doing an annotated bibliography this semester. The deadline is next Friday, February 18th. This means that some reading and annotating may need to take place outside of project block time....check it, if you can't stop thinking about your project because you are so intrigued by its potential to solve, change, impact, express something important to you, then reading should be something you want to do. If this is not the case, what do you need to do to modify your project focus?
- Students with year long projects, your staff would like to meet with you. Please arrange a time to meet with your project block advisor, Kimberly, and other staff members who have some background in your project. We'd like to discuss the following:
- What were tangible and intellectual accomplishments from Semester 1?
- What is your specific plan for this coming Semester 2?
- How are you challenging yourself to be creative and innovative beyond what you have already done and what others have done?
- Who are the professionals or professional fields that you would like represented on your end of year panel?
- Probably an EoL will not be enough to share a year of work, so what makes the most sense for a time, space, and environment to share your work?
