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| WHAT DID WE DO? WHAT'S NEW and CHANGED? hint: a lot! |
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING |
After presenting and receiving feedback yesterday, we
started to realize that we needed to go back and look at the question from
another angle. The idea of having a single room might limit where are able to
feel creative, when in reality we should be promoting creativity throughout the
entire school. Today at lunch, we spent some time throwing around ideas for how
we can improve the project. One of these ideas was having a Lego structure that
each student is allowed to add one Lego per day throughout the semester. We
didn't think that it would be terribly doable, primarily because it would take
around 48,000 legos. We still like this idea, but would have to come up with a
better way to do it. This idea inspired another idea, a weeklong Lego
competition, one structure for each house that we would judge for house points.
During and after dinner, we started talking again about one of our previous
ideas of expanding the one creative room to the whole school. The basis of the
idea is that we place baskets/boxes/bins in various commons and 'hangout' spots
around the school. Each container would have an assortment of games including
puzzles, origami, crossword, Rubik's cubes, card games, and others.
Rory
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  We played pool in our game space while we brainstormed new ideas for our project. |
I thought Rory wrote down our thinking in that moment well. However after our check in we realized we were really on to something with our LEGO sculpture. We realized it might be feasible if we did a LEGO drive. We even thought we could set up a system that could make the kids meet with teachers in order to get the legis. After this meeting I’ve become much more motivated and excited. I can’t wait to keep working.
ReplyDeleteAdding on to the blog, after discussing our changes with the teachers, we explained the idea of having a LEGO sculpture that students would build and the teachers loved it. The idea that students would be given one LEGO piece everyday and they added it to a sculpture and with the pieces placed by other students, a creative object would be built. The teachers had a lot of ideas to share with us such as collaborating with another group but they had to move on to talk with other groups.
ReplyDeleteThere are two things I learned about our creative process today. First, individual experience can be massively influential in shaping the development of a project. We had all read about this phenomenon in Participatory Creativity, but today we got to see it in action when my knowledge of the Reddit /r/place social experiment provided a new idea to work with. Second, I realized that we really were passionate about play when we decided to play pool while brainstorming. And I believe that this play actually helped us generate new ideas. From experience, I know that when we sit down and try to brainstorm in a "serious" manner, we often get caught up in the details of a single idea. I feel like playing pool helped us maintain a broader perspective.
ReplyDeleteI think that we have Tim to thank for a lot of the creative development that took place as we generated new ideas. He introduced us to the Reddit experiment that really seemed to get our wheels turning. Now that we have a basis, our focus can now be put to deciding which of these big ideas we want to move onto first.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ashley and think that without Tim introducing us to this Reddit idea our project would be much worse and we would not have progressed as far as we did.
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