Fitness routine – skillful collaborator.
For this apprenticeship activity, Eden and I spent a little under an hour to generate the best fitness routine we could. We generated a routine that was best suitable for athletes in high school. We generated it so that the people who were using it could become more agile, gain muscle mass, and improve their cardio, all while being busy students. However, the challenge for this apprenticeship activity was not making the fitness routine and thinking about it. Instead, it was mostly the collaborating part of making the fitness routine. Me and Eden would frequently disagree on what we should have added to the fitness routine. We started to agree on things faster as we went deeper into the project. This shows how we might have possibly already acquired a few collaboration skills even though we were not doing the project for that long. This taught me that in the future, if I ever get partnered with someone else who can be a hard partner I should cross the challenging faze and figure out their personalities to effectively collaborate with them in the long run.
Travel brochure – creativity
The travel brochure task let me be creative while also trying to express my creativity to others. With this assignment, I got to create an itinerary for Mumbai, where I’m from. I was able to create the itinerary and make it creative. I was also able to express my ideas creatively by making the travel brochure and writing about it. I chose Mumbai because that is where I am from. I have gone to Mumbai twice a year for the past 15 years of my life. I would personally consider myself a local. I know about Mumbai, so why not express my ideas to others? The travel brochure apprenticeship task was the perfect opportunity to express my ideas to others about where I am from. This task also helped me on the software side of things. This was my first time in a while using Google Draw, and I had to use it to make the different lines and insert the different images into the Google drawing of the travel brochure.
interview – communication
For this task, I interviewed Jason about basketball, which is a sport he frequently plays. I had to generate multiple questions to effectively communicate what I wanted to get the answers that would be valuable to me. This is already the skill of communication coming into play. After I generated the open-ended good questions, I decided to interview him right away. I tried my best to communicate with him properly and ask the questions in a fun way so he would be entertained and also willingly able to share his answers with me. Throughout the interview I made sure to keep focus and not go off track, effectively communicating with Jsaon about the topic at hand. From this apprenticeship task, I have learned that communication is not only about talking to someone and getting your point across from point A to point B. I realized communication is all about being able to effectively ask good-quality questions to get your point across maturely and entertainingly, rather than just asking nuanced questions and providing nuanced answers with a bad attitude.
Stranded on an island- critical thinker
For the stranded on the island critical thinker task, we were given a sheet of 30 items. With these items, we had to reorganize them in order of would we would most likely need if we were stranded. Some of these were trick questions, for example, the water. There was an item that was 6 gallons of drinking water, but then there was another item that turned salt water into drinking water. This was an example of the critical thinking that I had to do to properly organize these items for my best chance of survival if I was theoretically stuck on an island in the middle of no where. This task also helped me realize what I value in my life. Aside from the critical thinking and survival aspect. I realized that I value music because it’s something I love. Because of this, I decided that it was a good and reasonable idea to get the music player as one of the top ten items to take to the stranded island.
Middle school was full of many emotions, from fear to happiness and contentment. the moment I first stepped foot in middle school, one thing hit me harder than anything else could. It was freedom. As simply as that, I did not have to walk in lines with my class everywhere or be forced to stay in the cafeteria at lunch. In middle school, we could go to the library at lunch. For that matter, we could buy whatever lunch we wanted. We could eat lunch at the cafeteria for a few minutes, then have more than a forty-minute free period. However, I needed to know that this was not all sunshine and rainbows. This was not a fairy tail where I would be a free bird with nothing to worry about. I had responsibilities to worry about. I had a lot more freedom and power, and as Spiderman once said, “With great power comes great responsibility. ” Responsibilities such as managing my own time, or making sure I finish all my homework and finish sports training, etc. I had trouble with this the first year of middle school and managing my time. I would use my lunchtime irresponsibly and forget to eat my food sometimes. I would spend all my time after school watching YouTube and playing downstairs with my friends, instead of developing valuable skills.
However, towards the end of middle school, I had changed myself. I was keeping track of my own time and using my power wisely. I hope to continue this and use my time wisely in high school. I am excited for the years to come as now I know that if I focus on something I will end up getting it.
Why have a digital portfolio at SAS?
Creating a portfolio, or blog is a great way to collect all the work you’ve done throughout your academic career. You can include academic, athletic, and personal artifacts or experiences that you want to share with a wider audience. This is a great way to organize all your learning in one place and you can take it with you when you leave SAS. When you make your portfolio, you create posts that are categorized according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you, but if you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:
- An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category. Think of this as the first opportunity to engage and hook your reader!
- Body – this is where you share your learning. This should include a combination of text and media in the form of images, graphics, and embedded videos. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging and organized? Do they want to keep reading?
- Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner
- Tags – create tags that can be used as keywords to describe your post. Tags help organize your post a little more! Aim to have 3-5 tags for each post. For example, if you are posting about a novel you wrote, you might want the following tags: #Fiction, #MurderMystery, #Theme, #PlotDiagram
Click on the images below to find a few helpful tips for creating your posts, adding media, and making categories:
