We will be meeting in project disciplines this week. The student-staff parings are based primarily on student proposals, some of which are still being revised and completed. If changes need to be made to disciplinary groups, they will be made collaboratively starting on Wednesday and concluding on Friday morning. [Student List] [Staff Annotations]
It is a priority to make thinking visible throughout the research phase, so that we can see how our thinking changes, what influences us, what challenges us, and how we use our community and resources to learn and create. Keep group thinking alive in the room. Keep individual notes in manilla folders and Google Drive.
Please take attendance using the Attendance | Research Phase | Spring 2016 document.
OBJECTIVES THIS WEEK
- Build community within disciplinary groups - learning about each other as wonderers and project managers.
- Refine project ideas and articulate through proposals.
- Engage in Academic Research and utilize the IDEAS Language Arts Research and Annotation Guide to 1) Locate credible sources for projects, 2) Read and annotate sources, 3) Manage an EasyBib project.
- Analyze and select professionals models and inspirations related to a particular concept in academic content or art form.
- Reflect on Habits of Learning.
MONDAY>>
We will meet in disciplinary groups for the first time today. We will get to know the people and projects in the groups in order to begin building community. Students will identify specific needs, refine proposals, and begin research.TUESDAY>>
Groups will establish norms for research in their space and with their resources. This will be a reading and conferencing day - working toward Annotated Bibliographies.WEDNESDAY>>
Staff will share a professional model, establishing structures for collecting professional models as part of research. Adjustments to disciplinary groups, if needed.THURSDAY>>
Make connections to the Indie Lens film, as a professional model. Reading and conferencing day.FRIDAY>>
Reading day. Students will share Annotated Bibliography drafts for feedback and recommendations.
IMPORTANT
Annotated Bibliographies are due on Friday, February 19th
All students/groups with year long projects should schedule panel discussions with staff in the next two weeks. We will want to know your specific project plans for the semester, how you are building meaningfully on first semester, and who would be good professionals for you to work with.
