This week was great. Our essential question referenced a lot of journal articles I have read previously so I had this understanding of what I was going to write about when I sat down at my computer Tuesday night to start and Wednesday night to finish things up. Or so I thought. You know how in movies you see the kid starting a paper over and over and before you know it his wastebasket if full of wadded up paper that he most likely shot like a basketball. Or more recently, the computer screen with the blinking “here’s where you are at your paper” line, because I have no idea what it’s called, and the clock reads 7:30 and in the next scene the clock reads 12 am and the blinking line is still in the same spot and the entire page is still blank. Well see that’s what actually happened. It was like I had too many thoughts in my brain that getting them all out in a way that would make sense to anyone else but me wasn’t happening. I think I eventually figured it out though and continued on with my life.
I actually really enjoyed the essential question this week because of the fact that it made me formulate all my thoughts into just a few paragraphs. I’m one of those people who can write about a topic for a really long time, but condensing isn’t always the easiest thing for me as mentioned above, so it really was more of a challenge of how do I get this information into around 5 paragraphs then what does this mean. Dr. Graham said these were questions that would make our head hurt and I didn’t really believe her until I realized I had a good amount of information stored in my computer and in my head about the topic, then I realized she was right. So thanks for that challenge this week!
My differentiation isn’t until scenario 3, so I’ve been reading through the different questions and things that get brought up on Live Minutes to try and get an idea of what the teachers are going through as they give this experience to their students.
I actually really enjoyed the essential question this week because of the fact that it made me formulate all my thoughts into just a few paragraphs. I’m one of those people who can write about a topic for a really long time, but condensing isn’t always the easiest thing for me as mentioned above, so it really was more of a challenge of how do I get this information into around 5 paragraphs then what does this mean. Dr. Graham said these were questions that would make our head hurt and I didn’t really believe her until I realized I had a good amount of information stored in my computer and in my head about the topic, then I realized she was right. So thanks for that challenge this week!
My differentiation isn’t until scenario 3, so I’ve been reading through the different questions and things that get brought up on Live Minutes to try and get an idea of what the teachers are going through as they give this experience to their students.