Edward's Portfolio

TTG Reflection Writing Prompts

Collaboration:

1. The Group project included presenting one thing I know a lot about. The role I took was the content. I didn’t need to research many things, thinking that I already knew many things about it. The role made the presentation have logical order and detailed content which can make the audience understand us.
2. My group had several different arguments, which we all overcame based on our problem-solving skills. One conflict was that I didn’t like the template of what my partner chose. So, instead, we combined some elements from each template we liked. We then tried to make the design blend. We learned that effective collaboration included listening to everyone’s suggestions and finding a way to include everyone’s thoughts.
3. I believe that I play an important role in contributions to group projects. I have high problem-solving skills, and I listen to everyone’s suggestions. Instead of saying no to someone’s ideas, try to say yes and….

Creativity:

1. One creative output was the AI-generated photo. The obstacle was that I couldn’t find all the elements I tried to input into AI in the photo. I responded to the critique by trying to use fewer keywords and simultaneously including every required element.
2. I felt several different emotions, which included pride, reactance, irritation, etc. All these feelings could benefit my working process. Pride could boost your confidence, which will let you take more risks. Reactance could make you experience challenges and learn from them. Irritated could make you practice controlling your emotions.
3. I have identified my strengths and weaknesses in doing creative blocks. My strengths have made me finish my creative block requirements.

Critical Thinking:

1. Challenges were met along the way of completing tasks, so I followed the 6-step problem-solving method. Understanding the problem is more important at the start. I constantly ask myself what the actual goal is, and what constraints or boundaries are there I need to acknowledge. Following up is analyzing the components. Breaking the problem down could simplify the problem. For some specific problems, you could also identify patterns, or compare them to similar questions, which could also benefit in solving a problem. Next, we could consider exploring solutions. Brainstorming ideas could benefit of keeping the range of simple to creative solutions. After brainstorming ideas, evaluate them to identify if they are practical, effective, and efficient. Creating a clear plan, iterating and refining, and explaining clearly to yourself are all important steps to consider.
2. I have had several problems that I cannot find the correct solution. Therefore, solutions to that include the internet, artificial intelligence, and teachers and students. Outside sources are always important in finding solutions if you have difficulties.
3. Some self-check strategies include double-checking with artificial intelligence, as asking them is sometimes more efficient than searching online.

Communication:

1. Some changes are not only on the skill development of communicating but also the skill of choosing the right person to communicate with. As the introduction to high school requires a lot of resilience and adaptability, communicating with the correct peer is always most important. That includes the correct teaches and students. However, there are always challenges to that. For example, some people might be irritated if you ask them too many questions are the questions are too broad. However, asking some teachers I think are chill and I know them well are always an alternative solution, and the skill of doing that I feel confidence in.
2. Finding a peer or mentor that could answer the question is always the best, but some of them are not always the ones I feel comfortable talking to. Things could get our of topic, and I need to keep on reminding them to stay on topic, or they talk about a lot of broad things, and not focusing on details. There are a lot of possibilities in these, and a great listening skill base could make it a lot easier.
3. Being critical is always the best. Higher expectations always build perfect people. Being critical every time could make you know what to improve in, which later will benefit in you. Being critical doesn’t hinder my confidence, as if I know what to improve in I rather feel confident next time because I know after I fix those mistakes, I would be better.

Resilience:

1. I consider myself already a resilience person, as trying to adapt from middle school to high school wasn’t really challenging. These skills could further help me by adapting in new environments quickly.
2. Literature and history aren’t my best subjects, and so I tend to focus on them more. That makes me more nervous when doing anything related to it. Some small mistake or a bad grade could make me lose control. This setback was later recovered when I talked to someone close, like a friend. That’s how I could find some direction to future uses.
3. I tend to forget the setbacks because I know if further thinking of them would set me further back.