Future Problem Solving

On Tuesday and Wednesday you will be completing video/website research in either Team A or Team B. The compulsory time to do this is 10:10am on Wednesday.

Find out what team you are in and click on the links for your team. Do your research independently

Next week Team A will share their learning with Team B and vice versa.

Make notes on the worksheet provided.

TEAM A: Izzy, Issie, Ted, Riley, Quinn, Ruby

Your videos/websites:

Gabarello: http://gabarello.zhdk.ch/

Training with Zwift: https://www.zwift.com/

TEAM B: Joe, Lilly, Sophie, Kaiya, Jack

Your videos/websites:

Save the Park (Games for Change): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60mVNWk9__s

McDonalds Till Training Game: (watch the video on the page. Don't change to the NZ site) https://us.kineo.com/case-studies/mcdonalds-till-training-game

Future Problem Solving

We will complete FPS in FPS time :)

Our goals this week are to finish the booklet with criteria and Action plan. We need more challenges, and a range of categories for challenges.

Future Problem Solving

We will complete FPS in FPS time :)

Our goals this week are to get Solutions written up and start to think about Criteria.

Base an AI challenge on this piece of research:

IBM Watson comes up short in healthcare

A doctor at Florida’s Jupiter Hospital had not been impressed with IBM’s flagship AI program Watson. Originally a question-answering machine, IBM has been exploring Watson’s AI capabilities across a broad range of applications and processes, including healthcare. In 2013 IBM developed Watson’s first commercial application for cancer treatment recommendation, and the company has secured a number of key partnerships with hospitals and research centers over the past five years. But Watson AI Health has not impressed doctors. Some complained it gave wrong recommendations on cancer treatments that could cause severe and even fatal consequences.

After spending years on the project without significant advancements, IBM is reportedly downsizing Watson Health and laying off more than half the division’s staff.

Future Problem Solving

We will write the Underlying Problem in our FPS workshop.

This week you will brainstorm 4 solutions for the UP. Add these to your FPS doc in your Reading folder.

Check out these two videos about AI

1). What can go wrong when AI thinks for itself

2) AI implants - Elon Musk's Neuralink merging AI with your brain

Continue with Ethics

Check it out on the Level Up page.

Future Problem Solving

We will meet on Tuesday to discuss the research you have completed.

This week you will finish 4 challenges on your FPS doc (in your reading folder). One challenge needs to include research.

Continue with Ethics

Check it out on the Level Up page.

You also have a Persuasive Devices Review to complete this week. The Aspire teachers will let you know when to work on this.

This week we start a new Level Up - Ethics.

Check it out on the Level Up page.

(there is also a copy of Part A on this page)

Future Problem Solving

Glue a copy of the Future Scene and Categories list into your Reading or Literacy book.

Complete the document that is sitting in your Reading folder. (do this on the online doc)

You need to do a small amount of research for the first 3 questions, and then brainstorm some Challenge ideas. This term you are working on your own for this.

What on earth is Ethics?

Be prepared to never see the world in the same way again.

ETHICS -

In your book, create a mind map to record your thinking of what YOU KNOW about ETHICS.

For example:

NOW -

Watch this VIDEO and make notes as you listen to what it says. In your book we expect to see the video NAME followed by your notes. How different is this to your mindmap?

Make a statement that explains to us how your thoughts have changed.

ETHICAL TOOLKIT -

Throughout our learning we’re going to use a different tool to work out whether something is good or bad, right or wrong, allowed or not allowed…

Think of them like a bunch of tools in an explorer’s backpack. Throughout Part B and C you will need to refer back to these tools.

You have been given your own copy of the toolkit. Starting with ‘a map’ cut out the explanation, stick it in your Inquiry book, HIGHLIGHT the key points, and write a summary in your own words of this tool underneath. This WILL be a paragraph of 4-5 sentences.

You will repeat this process for each of the tools.

The tools are -

• A map

• A Torch

• A machete

• Compass

• Binoculars

• A Magnifying Glass

• Hiking Poles

Hi Literacy Team

For the end of Week 4 and Week 5 you will be working on Part C of Level Up. We haven't decided when this will be due yet, but it's likely it will be the end of Week 6.

We think this will be a fun task. You need to put quite a bit of time into planning, creating and explaining (all up this could be 6-8 hours of work).

Due by Friday Week 5: The Brainstorm and Planning Page.

(I understand changes in ideas might happen after this, which is fine. You can go back and make changes in Week 6 if there are small changes with your ideas, or choices of techniques to use)

Here's a short task to get you engaged in the main ideas of the Sleep Patterns Future Scene (this has been emailed to you)

Answer these questions in you Reading/Literacy books and post the photo on your Learning Log slides. Due Friday 15 May.

Questions

1. Name three negative effects that lack of sleep is having on Arya.

2. What is the name of the sleep programme that Arya's friends have been using?

3. What are the positives of the programme?

4. What are the negatives?

5. Explain what the Nanobots do.

6. Give one reason that makes Arya unsure about starting the programme.

7. What year and what place is this Future Scene set in?

WELCOME to Week 4!

Monday to Wednesday: Keep going with Part B of Level Up. I'm loving what I'm seeing already. You are looking at every minute detail of your chosen advertisement, and the explanations are detailed and well written. Looking good! It's also great that some if you have let me know that you are analysing every ad on TV now, and seeing how devious those ad creators are!! Check out the Level Up page if you need to review the task and watch Mrs Morrie's video.

Wednesday to Friday: The start of Part C - creating your own Ad!!

FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING

I hope you have read the Future Scene and made some notes. Send me an email of your challenge ideas. If I receive enough ideas I'll start a shared doc. I am expecting ASPIRE students to be looking into this. So far I've only seen Explore students engaged in this (oops... and Ruby too ... you're awesome!!)

This week the Literacy focus is Level Up Part B. This time you focus on just one advertisement, and look at all of the persuasive devices used in this one example.

Find out about this on the LEVEL UP page.

Part A has been marked. You will have until Monday 4 May to finish Part B.

FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING

Please check out the research articles from last week and add your ideas to the SHARED DOCUMENT. I have emailed this term's Future Scene to you. Have a read and note any challenges you can find. We will share these when we get back to school.

Hey team

Great start on the Level up last week. Some of you are almost finished!

You have found some great examples of persuasive devices. I will be marking this at the end of the week - make sure that you include reasonable detail in your explanations.

If you feel caught up with this - please head to the Future Problem Solving section.

Future Problem Solving: Sleep

Have a look at these three resources below and make some notes in your Literacy/Reading books. Think about the problem (the issues society is having with sleep) and the solutions (including futuristic solutions using technology)

Take one idea from your issues notes and your solutions notes and add it to this shared document

My literacy group (Years 5-8) will be working on Aspire's Level Up for Literacy.

The focus is around 'The Art of Persuasion' to introduce you to advertising and persuasive language.

There are 3 levels to this assignment, that need to be completed in order, starting with Level A. All links will be added to the document, so that you can access the information that you need to complete the activities.

There are THREE slides docs for this component of your learning - one for each part: A, B and C. It is expected that you will complete this learning on the Level Up GOOGLE SLIDE that is in your INQUIRY folder in GOOGLE DRIVE.

Please note we have set time limits for each level also. This can be found on the Matawara Website.

The Level Up page is HERE

FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING

We won't be doing anything for this at the start of term, but I will introduce some readings or videos from Week 2 as an introduction to the topic.

This term the topic is Sleep. In the future doctors have predicted that getting enough sleep will be more of an issue for us. There will also be more technology solutions to help people to get a full night's sleep. This will be quite an interesting topic to research!

Year 5&6 Article

Year 7&8 Articles

Cat Mystery in Virginia

Someone is mysteriously shaving cats in a small Virginia town and feline owners aren't too happy about it.

A small city in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley called Waynesboro is the scene of a strange wave of cat shaving. Someone has been taking roaming pet cats and shaving their underbellies or legs. It's happened to seven cats since December.

Police Capt. Kelly Walker said Friday that all the cats have been returned otherwise unharmed.

Walker says all the cats clearly had owners - they were well-groomed and wearing collars. He says police aren't sure what crime has been committed, but the owners 'would just like it to stop.'

'Yeah, someone needs to be caught and people are more aware so they can watch for it and keep it from happening in their neighborhood,' said Maia Oden, who showed WHSV how her ginger cat had his groin shaved.

Walker says he learned of the feline barbering spree this week when a resident asked if he could post notices asking anyone with information to contact police.

Since the shaved areas were the cats' underbellies and groins, this would seem to indicate that someone concerned about stray kittens is shaving the felines to check for a spay scar or to spay or neuter the cat.

But police say they don't think that's the case, as some of the same cats were shaved more than once, reported NBC 29.

Cat owner Mary Sproles Martin said on Facebook that her cat had been shaved three times, even though her pet had a visible scar from her spay.

Another person, Sarah Dawn Norris, said her friend's cat had been catnapped and shaved three times as well.

It's unclear how a cat could have been shaved multiple times in the same area or if the cats were being shaved in different areas.

Martin also said her cat's leg had been shaved. A shaved leg could indicate that the cat had been put under anesthesia, but again, the motive remains unclear.

Another person pointed out that it would be very difficult for one person to hold a cat down for a shave, so multiple people are probably involved.

Other residents found the mysterious shaving creepy, but also a bit amusing.

'Keep an eye out for someone wearing a genuine cat hair sweater,' snarked Johnny Stoll.