Yiyong's Portfolio

Apprenticeship activities reflection  

Critical thinking 

For critical thinking, I did task nine (about drawing something similar to a rube goldbrick initially to save a cat) and task five (about creating a magic trick using cards by learning the trick online). When I was doing task 9 about drawing obscure solutions, I was to analyze about in which way did the umbrella, watch, and wheelbarrow coincidently save the cat from a tree, and thought of different scenarios, and after a selection of different alternatives, I picked the one that’s more theoretically possible. I was always fogged about the solution to coincidently save the cat without any human’s intending to save it. Since it shall all be coincidently saved, no one could notice the cat or interfere with it on the tree. My final way was prompting a worker by a watch it’s time to carry the wheelbarrow downtown, and the wind caused the cat to fall from the tree, but landed on the umbrella stuck on a lower trunk, and the umbrella was also blown down with the cat directly into the worker’s wheelbarrow with soil in it which prevented the accident to happen. Overall, I considered many factors and possibilities, though I all of them have a clear solution primary, I utilized my imagination and kept considering all possible ways to connect the usage of watch, wheelbarrow and umbrella from saving a cat. 

Creative learner 

I did task number 4 (designing a game). My creative output was challenged when I was designing a card game. At the time, I attempted to create a medieval battle based strategic game. I primarily considered my game as creative and entertaining. After I tested the game with my brother, not only that I encounter and modify a lot of bugs, but the limitation of the game affected the amount of time to finish one round. In the game’s rule, only battle ram could take damage to opponent’s basement, but after the death of battle ram, we averagely needed to take more than a dozen cards before cycling to a new battle ram. This stretched significantly the time to play a round. My brother doubted my ability to create a decent card game, and the previous rule bored him off. I modified a lot of categories and changed the rule to anyone could cause damage to the basement, and battle ram could one shoot it. The reaction contained inside me was ashamed of creating such a boring game even after the modified rules. This deeply influenced me if I were to create a new deck game to add more elements of the game and create multiple ways to win so it would be easier to win a round. When I I’m designing the card game, I faced multiple creative barriers such as granting different numbered cards different talents including assassins or ambushers, my main problem was during the design of complex cards, I was to primary design the card’s usage and modify rules until it’s doable and doesn’t contradict with other rules or cards. Though I had to add, modify, or delete rules to ensure no ongoing bugs could impact the game, I had overcome the difficulties and finished the design of the card game. 

Effective collaborator  

For the effective collaborator, I did task number nine and seven. When solving the murder mystery my role was a detector, and I solved it with my teammate Eric. I suspected every suspect at first since they all had the capability to commit the crime, and simply from blood stains, knives, and guns we can infer they were all involved with the murder. Eventually, I thought through the problem and discovered different time periods were a crucial part solving the mystery. For example, if the victim wasn’t active after he was gone into a person’s room, that person should be more suspicious than others that had blood stains of the victim and knife in their house; since the victim was still active. I locked the final murder place to the room which the victim was last spotted to enter and whoever was the owner of the house, should be the murderer. Since the victim’s stain was on one person’s room, a knife with his blood on it belonged to another person, and the gun that shot the victim belonged to another person, I was fogged of the three’s relationship and who committed the crime. Overall, we only agreed on each other’s perspective, and didn’t quite disagree with each other’s perspective. 

Communication 

For communication, I did task number seven. During middle school, I didn’t communicate in English quite constant to foreigners that don’t speak mandarin, it changed now since I had more Asian friends speaking that only knew how to speak English. When I was presenting my slides about a game I’m introducing in game and app design, I spotted the audience being quiet almost the whole presentation. They didn’t pay full attention, which seemed that they weren’t interested, nor did they have any comments or questions.  I’m criticizing myself about how they might not copperhead some parts of my presentation since there were some sophisticated words and technical terms for the game I’m presenting. I also stretched the presentation slides and text way more than the time given for me to present it at a normal speed, so I had to speak very fast in a limited time. This hindered my confidence of my communication skill as I’m lacking the term “rizz” since the audience might not even understand what I presented. This could also be a lesson and promote me with my next presentation. I would need to add more inciting and humorous contents instead of a tedious presentation with technical terms that tends to decrease my rizz. 

Resilience 
For resilience I did task number one (about learning a new skill which I chose chess and recorded my daily tournaments I played online while reflecting on it) and got extra credit of 15 by helping my teacher write blesses on note cards.  I’ve learned the fact that persistence can bring victory. For the rounds of Chess I played, I continuously lost my units towards the opponent by stupid moves but insisted on playing more rounds, but my spirit of insisting on playing new rounds and reflecting on my lost battles eventually strengthened my chess skill. In another situation, After I entered high school, homework and tests overwhelmed me. I kept on with the works and trying to use extended learning to catch up homework or preparing for tests such as Chinese vocabulary test that I take almost every class. A time I experienced failure was when I got a bad grade in my science class since I didn’t prepare previously, and after that, I gave more attention and energy upon finishing the final test that encourages doing the test in home and got a better grade than previous. Since I applied more effort to a course to prevent the grade from failing, I highly evaluate my resilience when I am insisted on doing something important. 

Practicing chess on chess.com for a week. 

Day1: very horrible, lost every round I played!!! 

Day2 

I’ve been playing more opponents for enhancing my chess skill, and got a win against a quite week opponent 

Day 3: lost the game against a 500 Elo opponent which I blundered my queen, and resigned because I lost advantage 

Day 4: best move: advancing my pond forward which can at blunder either the horse or the bishop, and the previous few moves were also decent 

Day 5: Won a North Korean guy which isn’t that talented at chess and blundered its Queen by moving in the mouth of my horse 

Day 6: this guy blundered his queen at the first few moves but still insisted till the end of the game, what a spirit 

got 90 percent my brain developed this game and kept checking the opponent’s crucial chess pieces such as rook and king, and kept forcing his king down by my queen

What excites you about this new skill? 

This game is very popular, and I can most likely compete with friends and involve with them 

What did you learn? 

This game also involves memorization of opening, and we would need a stronger understanding of that to play the game well 

What was interesting? 

To calculate and estimate opponent’s move 

How did you overcome challenges? 

By keep playing it and looking at AI formed analysis on the game I just lost