Discuss what you learned from the process of preparing for and doing the assembly.

I learnt that you can make a statement non-verbally just as effectively as speaking. I also expanded a lot of my skills, such as: Creativity and Information Processing. I also learnt to co-operate and work as a group when writing a script, designing a shirt etc etc. I also improved my leadership skills by assigning people different jobs. I also learnt to organise myself so I know when and what to do something.

Success Criteria and Achievement

Well today I mostly worked on the Fashion Show script, and only helped organised the research of my group. The success criteria I had in mind was: 1: to be able to organise my group into researching specific parts of the Restless Earth topic, 2: be able to split certain jobs according to the Belbin Roles and lastly: be able to co-operate with other students to create a script. I would say that I accomplished all these success criterias!

Child Soldiers Shirt Reflection

Our group didn't really have a success criteria for the shirts, we only had success criteria for the assignment about writing as a child soldier itself. But if we did, it would probably be to be able to express what we want to say on a shirt, to be able to make the audience understand what we are trying to express, and to be able to use Creativity effectively. I would say that we achieved this pretty well, as we went through a lot of different ways we could design a shirt, settled on a specific design, and managed to follow it according to plan. Although there were some minor changes, it was almost basically the same according to the plan. Although we don't know if the audience would understand what we are trying to express yet, we all felt that the message was very straightforward and clear. We successfully managed to express what we want to say on our shirt, and is extremely proud of that. From this learning experience, I learnt and expanded a lot of knowledge and skills, such as co-operation, creativity, organisational skills, and many more! These skills would be extremely helpful later in life when I'm working with other people, or when I'm needed to work on something that requires a lot of effort, which will put my organisational skills to work. The importance of knowing what is happening around the world is extremely crucial since if we don't know what's happening, we would be turning a blind eye towards important issues which needs solving. This also makes me want to do something, to initiate something that would be beneficial towards people who are suffering around the world. I used pretty much almost all the thinking skills in this project, Creativity when thinking of designs, Enquiry when asking myself questions that will make the design more unique, Information Processing when looking for examples and templates, and many, many more! My friends helped me by putting together everything we planned onto a shirt. I learnt that whenever I organise what I need to do, I work better and more efficiently, even if I don't follow my organisation exactly. I could improve my learning by, firstly: organise my work even more, secondly: plan and arrange projects more thoroughly and in-depth and lastly: make sure that every teammate gets an equal amount of work, so no-one does too little or too many work. All in all, the experience and knowledge gained in this ELP was extremely valuable, and I enjoyed it a lot!

What could the outcome of your research look like?

Basically we're going to split into sections, Primary and Secondary. Both of them are going to carry out the experiment while we split the information: presentations for Primary (more general fun facts) and posters + presentations for Secondary to back it up (detailed and slightly more sophisticated). For Primary a good idea is to summarise it and make it simpler. Videos are going to be inside presentations to make it more interesting. We should also print out our information to give more copies around to students. This is all we have got so far, but we might improvise along the way to fit with the style or make it flow more.