As groups begin to understand who they are, regarding practices, personalities, and projects it's important to continue incorporating gatherings where students can articulate their thinking and commitments to their projects and intent.
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.
Please take attendance using the spreadsheet.
DO NOW: Professional Model (continued from yesterday, optional)
Purpose: Look closely at professional work in order to gain insight on how the creative process is used to fulfill an intention; gain inspiration for projects; discuss how professional models serve as part of academic research.
Staff can choose from any of these possibilities, or explore your own:
Purpose: Share and reconnect with the larger vision of the project and Habits of Learning.
Circle up and complete the following sentence by taking turns.
Circle up and complete the following sentence by taking turns.
- "When I become famous because of this project, it will be because..."
- "Something that I need to gain an in-depth understanding of, in order to do this project well is..."
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.
- Students with year long projects: check Erin’s blog: Year Long Projects Blog
- All students: communicate with advisors, document, document, document your thinking.
- Staff: add notes to the spreadsheet, for helpful ideas on possible advisor moves.
NOTES:
- All students will be doing an annotated bibliography this semester. The deadline is next Friday, October 7th.
- 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?
