How it Started/How it’s Going

Welcome back to my blog! Hope you’re well! Today I have a summative post for our latest project, How it Started/How it’s Going. This project was inspired by this meme:

Our end goal was to create a virtual museum filled with our own how it started/how it’s going memes. On the how it’s started side, we had to have a Medieval or Renaissance portrait and on the how it’s going side we had to have that same painting but with our faces edited on and elements of the painting edited to convey a more modern sense. Here’s my end meme:

Answer to driving question

What can we learn from the past and why does it matter to us today?

We can learn many, many things from the past. By studying history, humanity has come to conclusions about many things. We learn about things like wars in school so they won’t happen again. We learn from past mistakes of humanity and try not to repeat them. Lessons from the past matter to us because we should learn whether or not to repeat them. If something good happened in history we should be studying how to make it happen again, with more modern technological advancements to it. If something bad happened we should learn to not repeat the actions that led up to it.

Evidence of learning

I learned a lot in this project. I think the milestones that helped me the most are 3 and 6. Milestone 3 was the in-class history test. PLP usually doesn’t give tests but occasionally they’re needed. Our task was to write an answer to the question, What Historically Significant Events Helped Develop Our Worldview? we had to incorporate one aspect of worldview into it so I chose beliefs. I wrote about the spread of Christianity across the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods and how Christianity has carried on as a widely popular religion in the modern-day. I think this helped me learn the most because it was a reflection of all the learning we had done so far. We had to review and connect everything we’d learned and it helped me realize how everything relates to the driving question. I ended up getting an extending on that test and was proud of the work I did. Here’s a painting from the Renaissance that shows how strong Christianity was back then:

Milestone 6 was the launch of the virtual museum that we created. We had a zoom call with all the parents on it and everyone said something about the project. To get to Milestone 6 we had to do a whole project of hard work and I think I learned a lot from it.

Here is the museum:

Here is the companion exhibition guide: guide book

Curricular competencies

We were being assessed on 3 different competencies in this project, Responding to Text (have I constructed an original personal, critical and creative connection between myself, the text, and the world with supportive credible evidence?), Empowered Learner (how might I use technology to construct knowledge), And Establish Historical Significance (how do we make choices about what is worth remembering). I think on this project I started as a solid achieving (sun) on the competencies. Maybe leaning towards a rainbow on Empowered Learner, as I was using my technology creatively for the different stepping stones we had done so far. Towards the end of the project, I think I’m leaning towards extending on the competencies. I have gained a full understanding of how to display and use these competencies. Here’s my Milestone 2, a worldview collage that shows a creative use of technology.

This project was super interesting. We got to make a virtual space, we learned about history, specifically Medieval and Renaissance times, we learned about worldview and we got to make memes that relate to every teenager’s worldview. I enjoyed it overall and I thought it was a good project. Hope you enjoyed my post, until next time!

“What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away?”

-Rent