Article Group Presentations

Whoops, I totally forgot about this blog. Life is dumb and distracting.

Anyways, I really enjoyed a lot of the article group presentations. They were mostly pretty fun and engaging, and everyone seemed to have a pretty good understanding of the concepts they were illustrating. A couple times I found it hard to follow how some of the activities were relating back to concepts of literacy, a couple just seemed like they were trying to be fun. I do know, however, that this would have worked better if there was more time to talk through stuff. The Maker group activity stuck with me a bit, probably because it was the one that I didn’t enjoy as much. I felt that simply following instructions and putting something together didn’t really show any new or interesting concepts, I felt that more freedom to improvise would have been more entertaining and engaging, which is why I spent the second half of the activity time building a sort of claw out of two robo-fingers. I found that this building experience was much more interesting, both in a simple sense (it was more fun), and in a more complex, conceptual sense, because I was dealing with all sorts of trial and error and improvised learning. Again, I understand time constraints are difficult to overcome, but I think it would have been more interesting to allow us to fail more.