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.

I play the electric base guitar. The electric base guitar only has four strings unlike the electric guitar’s six strings. The four strings the base guitar has is E-A-D-G. The base guitar is actually very different compared to the electric guitar for example a base guitar as a deeper sound when on the other hand the electric guitar is a little more high pitched.

I have been playing the base guitar for 4 years now and it wasn’t super easy to learn at first but now I know how to play it pretty good. I am still learning new songs but my favourite songs to play would have to be money by Pink Floyd and Viva la vida by Coldplay.

The final scimatics project for this quarter was called “laser laws” and revolved around the law of reflection and the Pythagorean theorem. Our driving question of this project was “How can we test the law of reflection and the Pythagorean theorem” we proved this by doing some pretty cool assignments such as: Using the online ray optics simulator to prove the law of reflection, the group experiment project where we created a lab report and the final assignment where we made a cool design with reflecting mirrors and then used a laser to reflect off of each mirror creating a really cool looking project.  

This type of project was new to me, I don’t think I have ever learned about something like this before. Learning about how lasers work was very important to know and getting to actually use them was fun. Learning about reflection was another important part in this project and being able to prove the law of reflection by using online and in real life experiments with reflecting mirrors. It is actually pretty important to know how to do this sort of stuff because now I know how lasers work and now I know how they are used and what they can do. The lab reports we did are good practice for the future because when you go to school it will help you understand how certain things work.

In this project we were graded on three topics such as: 

Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest: I accomplished this by using my time to create a well written scientific lab report.

Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms: I accomplished this by properly calculating the Pythagorean theorem and properly measuring the shape.

Co-operatively design projects: I accomplished this by helping and contributing to the group by helping them measure, set up the project and calculate what needed to be calculated.

I feel like I did very well in this project and understood most of the scientific topics and the mathematical topics. I feel like this project was very important for my learning and important to know for when I continue on in science and math. In conclusion I had a lot of fun making this project with my group members. 

How does what we hear read see influence us? When you hear a story on the radio or read something in a newspaper or see something on the news you automatically think that its true because since we know they’re professionals so they know everything For example if someone on the news says eating pears makes you live until you’re 200 then  people think its true and now suddenly everyone is eating pears because the news said so. 

Milestone 5 really helped me understand media a lot better it’s was more of the deeper side of media which really helped me answer the driving question. Milestone 3 I think was another very important milestone because it helped us understand how much media has changed over the years and how most of the stuff in the older ads wouldn’t be suitable for today. This project really helped me open my eyes to the deeper side of media I didn’t know anything about media I just saw the advertisements and didn’t really think much of them but now that I did this project I know the strategies and the appeals that are put in advertisements.

In conclusion I really liked this project and I liked what the message of it was at times it was complicated but It was very helpful.

The My User Manual project was our first big project of the school year and it was pretty fun to make. This project helped me a lot with explain myself better in a written format which is a good skill to learn how to do. I would say this project was very different compared to the projects we did in elementary school I definitely like these sorts of projects more.

The Memoji laptop project was really different compared to any other project I have done inside school and as well as outside school. I learned how to instant alpha on Keynote I never knew I could do that until now.

You can view My User manual in the link in this post.

Hello, My name is Kwosen.

I like to play sports and talk about them.

My favourite subjects in school are Science and English.

I hope you like my blog.