Collaboration
The collaboration tasks I completed were the murder mystery, zoom, and cover song analysis. During both the murder mystery task and cover song analysis, I was partners with Ainsley.
To me, the murder mystery task was the most interesting, and during the 30 minutes with Ainsley, I took the role of drawing a timeline when we cannot talk, which largely contributed to the success of solving the mystery because the timeline made the murder process very clear. This is the task I enjoyed the most because I really like detective and mystery stories in general.
However, during the class zoom task, I didn’t participate much or take a role because there are a lot of others trying to express their ideas without talking. I kind of chose to not participate much in it because the situation was pretty messy, everyone had frowns on their face while sorting out the sequence and I don’t want to make everything even more chaotic, so I did the listening. I do feel like sometimes staying quiet and listening is being helpful though.
During the cover song analysis, I don’t think it really contributed to my collaboration skills because me and Ainsley decided really quickly on who’s better and why.
Creativity
The creativity tasks I did were the t-shirt design and the baked good design. To me I really enjoyed designing the baked good because I like food and designing at the same time. Even though it was pretty hard to think of an innovative idea at the beginning, I went through it and I’m pretty proud of my end product, because I did a lot of research in the middle to always double check if my ideas work, if the ingredients are sturdy enough to carve, etc.
The strategy I learned to overcome a creative blocks is to look out the window or flip through your photo album or something. Because these things not related to the work you’re working on can give you inspiration sometimes. For example, my box cake idea came from a picture of a delivery box I took in my photo album for some reason sometime in the past.
Critical Thinking
The critical thinking tasks I did were the Gomuku (with Ainsley), the trolley problem, and The survival game. I recall that the one that made me think the hardest was during the Gomuku, because games like connect four require you to think through all possibilities and double check so you won’t make mistakes, but I lost to Ainsley still just because of a careless mistake.
The other two are easy tasks, because I think the trolley problem is just a matter of values, and the survival game is more of like common sense, the things you need most are water>food>weapon>shelter/clothing.
Communication
The communication tasks I did were the buzzfeed quiz and clickbait headline. I think these are the tasks requiring the least communication in there, and its mainly about rewording things or how to attract attention with words.
I enjoyed doing the buzzfeed quiz and the idea came to me pretty quickly, because I like fruits and I thought of random questions quickly too.
Compared to high school, I think middle school requires less communication skills, and thats how someone like me got through it, but I don’t think I can get through high school as easily as I did in middle school.
Resilience
The resilience tasks I did were learning a new skill and writing a journal.
The learning a new skill task was the most useful, because I think I learned a lot during the 7 days and I’m still working on improving my skills on the thing I was learning.
Big Project
Extracurricular
General questions:
- I think I’ve become more proactive in terms of like doing schoolwork, due to peer pressure and GPA
- I still don’t really manage stress, and I still procrastinate. But I learned that I can listen to quiet music during doing hw, improving the my speed and the quality of my work.
- Do your apprenticeship tasks earlier so you don’t stress and rush them at the end?
- I can’t really think of one
- I have to work on communication. I’m not sure what ways I’ve matured on, I think its a bit too early in the school year, so I don’t know yet and I’ve basically been going to classes and doing homework like a robot.
