Senior Project 2014 Awesome
Jun 19, 2015
Senior Project 2014Awesome
Memorizing ThinkingAcademic Best Personal Best
Follow Curriculum
Follow Interests
Hints at What Your Grade Will Be
Hints at What Your Future Will Be
Involves Risk TakingInvolves Playing it
SafeRelies on Knowing Answers
Relies on Asking Right Question
Being Scholarly
Being Smart
Finding the right question
Topic:Beauty
Question:Do magazines promote unhealthy images of beauty?
Question:Would you be willing to become extremely
ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?
So What? Who Cares?“The problem is not necessarily that the speakers lack a clear, well-focused thesis or that the thesis is inadequately supported with evidence. Instead, the problem is that the speakers don’t address the crucial question of why their arguments matter.”
Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say
Topic Brainstorming
Objective:Leave class with 5 viable senior project ideas
that you are genuinely enthusiastic about
This is what enthusiasm looks like
Brainstorming Tip #1Turn off your inner critic
The Brain has two hemispheres
Right brain functions
ThoughtIntuitionCreativityArt &
Music
Left brain functionsAnalytic Thought
Logic
LanguageScience &
Math
The Right Brain keeps you from turning into Spock
Right brain functions
ThoughtIntuitionCreativityArt &
Music
The Left Brain keeps you from turning into a Space Hippie
Left brain functionsAnalytic Thought
Logic
LanguageScience &
Math
To generate good ideas, you must silence your inner critic
Right brain functions
ThoughtIntuitionCreativityArt &
Music
Left brain functions
That ideas is dumb.It will never work.
And let your creative side play
Right brain functions
Left brain functions
This is fun!
How do I do that?
Limit your time!Don’t give your brain time to criticize.
Give yourself 20 minutes to come up 50 ideas.
Record your ideas on sticky notes
IDEA 1
IDEA 3
IDEA 2
IDEA 4Organize them later
Or mind maps!
Stay away from the computer - it will slow you down
Collaborate with others
In five years, what do I hope to have accomplished?
Make lists of interests, hobbies, goals, concerns
What do I want to do better?
What do I want to learn more about?
What experiences do I want to have?
What controversial issues do I feel strongly about?
What professions am I interested in?
What problems do I want to see solved?
What organizations or groups do I admire?
Where would I like to travel?
Brainstorming Tip #2Look for inspiration elsewhere
Where?
Magazines
LIBRARY RESOURCES
How does technology limit or expand our creativity?
Question
Task #1
1.Use the magazines at your table to brainstorm ideas2.Write one idea on a sticky note3.Team with the most notes gets a prize
Divergent Thinking
Task #2
1.Narrow down your ideas to your five best2.Convert one into a question3.Post the question on the wall
Convergent Thinking