This week, we will focus on developing our own project ideas through remembering, reflection, and refinement. Proposals are due on Friday. Staff is encouraged to prioritize time for students to ideate during project block. 1:1 conferences are the reason we have such small groups. Some questions to guide 1:1 conferences:
- What are you working toward as a person, a professional, an artist?
- What inspired you to do, say, write this?
- How did you get to this idea?
- How would this idea be different if we remixed it to one of the concepts in the hallway?
- Why is this project more meaningful, impactful than existing work on this topic by you or other people in the world?
- Who could you talk to stretch or strengthen your thinking about this idea?
- So what?
We will continue to make thinking visible throughout the ideation process, 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 the manilla folders we started last week.
OBJECTIVES THIS WEEK
- Accept the challenge of stretching projects toward greater extents of innovation and more profound creativity.
- Reflect on Habits of Learning: As part of our lifelong pursuit of learning, in the face of unprecedented technological, global, and professional changes that will require continual learning, we strive to...
- APPROACH TASKS WITH AN OPEN MIND
- ACCEPT CHALLENGES
- SEEK TO UNDERSTAND WHEN WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND
- USE EVIDENCE TO DOCUMENT LEARNING
- Apply and name Habits of Mind through the creative process
- Analyze and select professional models and inspirations related to a particular concept in academic content or creative form.
- Develop generative and focused questions.
- Engage in open dialogue with peers and professionals about project ideas.
- Make Thinking Visible in order to understand details of passions, skills, interests, etc that might seed incredible projects.
MONDAY>>
Continued ideation toward project proposals. Students will collect inspirations from their own experiences and from staff suggestions. Initial project ideas will be tested against the criteria established for creative and innovative projects.
TUESDAY>>
Focus on questions. Students will sift through ideation notes, narrow their project focus and begin developing open and closed questions to guide their projects. All of this is done with an emphasis on proposing a project that addresses a meaningful problem and/or expresses an essential idea, feeling, or thought.
WEDNESDAY>>
Write project proposals. They are due tomorrow to your current advisor for review.
THURSDAY>>
Review and revise project proposals for final submission.
FRIDAY>>
All students will use the Proposal Submission Form to submit their proposals. Staff will gather after school to determine project advisors and provide feedback. Students will receive feedback on their proposals and make revisions, clarify details next Monday.
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Who are we as an intellectual community?
How do we analyze and share academic research?
