Month: March 2021

The project I’m going to write about is called the growth mindset challenge. This project was a surprise to me because I had never heard of growth and fixed mindset until we started this project. We learned about a lot of things like Having grit and that failing is just the first attempt and learning and if you don’t fail then you wont learn. This project gave me a totally different perspective on school and the academic system. For example we learned that being intelligent doesn’t really mean anything and doesn’t get you anywhere. You can be intelligent but you need to have grit and perseverance to show that knowledge.

Our task was to make a growth mindset journal which we made an entry every time we learned about a new topic on growth mindset. You can view my growth mindset journal here

From learning about grit to learning about failure as a first attempt at learning it really taught me a lot and I feel that it will really help me not just academically but in the world as well.

Our final product was to make a growth mindset selfie which would have your goal for the school year and you would put a text of that goal over your the head of the selfie you took.

My goal for the school year was “ I will ask for help from trusted people about what should be the focus of my learning.

Overall from making my growth mindset journal to my growth mindset selfie this project was really interesting and I think it was a good subject to learn about as it can help us in anything like school or sports.

Spring Break is just under a week away and since we can’t travel I have other plans. Every March there is a college basketball tournament called March Madness. It is definitely one of the most exciting tournaments to watch for sure. My favourite team to cheer for in this tournament is North Carolina Tar Heels. The Tar Heels are usually one of the best teams in the tournament and over the years some very well known basketball players have come out of North Carolina for example players like Michael Jordan, Vince Carter and James Worthy.  

 

Unfortunately last march there wasn’t a March madness because of Covid. So this year I will be very pumped to watch this tournament since last year I didn’t get to. The Tar Heels have won this tournament 6 times and have been the runners up 7 times. The most recent time they won the tournament 71-65 against Gonzaga in 2017. You can watch the highlights of the 2017 tournament here:

I am very excited to watch the tournament this year and I hope to watch to some very entertaining Basketball.

Hello, welcome to day 9 of the student blogging challenge. Today we are doing a post on the holidays we celebrate. My family’s favourite holiday would have to be Christmas. Every Christmas I go and visit my mom and her family in Bella Coola. Every Christmas we go sledding and skiing and everything that relates to the winter.  

This photo reminds me of winter because it is always very snowy in Bella Coola. Here’s what its like driving in the winter in Bella Coola:

   

Our newest project’s name was called “how it started / How its going” and it revolved around Medieval and Renaissance art. Our driving question of the project was what can we learn from the past, and why does it matter to us today? One of the first assignments we got was the “my history test” which was a one question test. The question was “What historically significant events help shape our worldview?” Which is a very interesting question and it really made me think.

Our main project was to find a piece of Medieval or Renaissance art and then make it more modern by adding our face on one of the people in the photo and adding stuff like IPhones, AirPods, planes and new types of clothes which didn’t exist back then. Here Is my art that I created: 

 

For the final project we had to make an artist statement on the artwork we made which connected to the worldview aspect our group was given. For my group I was given the task of being a flex group member which means that I helped with everything. For example if someone needed help writing a script or something I would step in and help them finish it. 

We talked about historical significance a lot during this project. We would find an event back in medieval or Renaissance times and we would say why it is historically significant today like for example we talked a lot about the printing press. It was made back in the Renaissance times and it is very historically significant because we now use printers in our everyday lives.

On most of our assignments we were graded on one big topic which was “How might I use technology to construct knowledge” throughout the project we used a new app called SuperimposeX which I had never used before and it had a big role in helping construct my project. I also learned how to use the Google Arts and culture app which helped me find my piece of art which led to my final project.

On the final day of our project we had a big PLP 8 Zoom meeting where we talked about our roles in the project and how we helped shape the final product. I was in Flex group one. A flex member is a person who helps his or her group members on every task that needs working on. After the Zoom meeting ended everyone went onto the virtual museum. The virtual museum was what we were working on with our groups. When you went into this virtual museum you could see everyone’s art work. If you clicked on someone’s art work it would play their voice recorded artist statement. Here is my artist statement: 

I had lots of fun making this project and I hope we can do more projects similar to this one in the future.