Mini-Posters
Formative Work
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Formative Work
GOALS
Create and publish a response to a prompt which offers you the opportunity to reflect on your work and development as a self-directed learner.
Develop your creative, critical thinking, and listening/speaking/viewing skills.
Through mini-posters, you will have the opportunity to stretch your creative muscles. Using 1/4 of an 8.5" x 11" piece of cardstock, colored pencils, crayons, and markers, respond to the prompt for the appropriate month below. Keep in mind that the most effective posters use metaphors, symbols, and an economy of words - just enough to communicate effectively.
What's one of your personal academic goals for this year?
See clip from the concluding scenes of the film, The Martian, and then answer this question: When faced with a challenge, how do you “work the problem”?
Finish the thought: I'm passionate about learning...
Without using a metric (dollar figure, letter grade, or GPA number), how do you define success?
For our mini-poster inspiration this month, we'll watch the following clips from the 1995 film, Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard.
This will give us a context for words of flight director, Gene Kranz: “Failure is not an option.” These clips will help us understand that Kranz didn’t mean that failure was an impossibility. He just didn’t want the team to consider failure as one of the possible outcomes they were developing as a solution. They needed to work together - in space and on earth as they collaborated, problem solved, questioned, and challenged each other. They needed to, as Kranz says, "...work the problem."
“Houston, we have a problem." ( 0:50.50 - 0:54.44)
"Failure is not an option." (1:08.07 – 1:17.48)
Splashdown. (2:06.37 to end)
After you have viewed the clips, answer this question: How might this mindset be applied to your academic work?
Work Cited:
Apollo 13. Directed by Ron Howard, Universal Pictures, 1995.
How do you handle a setback?
How do you challenge yourself to grow?
Ten years from now, what would you like to be doing with your life?
Before handing your mini-poster in, make sure you have written your name on the BACK of the poster.