Tracey@ODC: Wednesday Week 2

This morning we continued with critical thinking firstly about what is critical thinking. We used the DeBono thinking tool - PMI - from his CoRT series of thinking tools, to think about this possible scenario; It should be compulsory for all people to carry cellphones. For those unfamiliar with PMI it is an acronym for Plus - Minus - Interesting.

Here are some of the plusses that we came up with;
*You could keep in touch with family and friends easier
*You could keep up with your friends
*You would learn to text fast
* Learn lots of numbers
*You could ask for help if you're in troubly quicker
*You wouldn't have to give it to your teacher
*Greater source of technology
*Could listen to music all the time.
*Make plans with far away friends
*Give you something to do
*You wouldn't forget anything

And the minuses
*It would annoy some people
*Global warming
*More robberies?
*People would become lazy and fat
*Distractions while driving
*Emailing, writing and talking face to face would become a thing of the past
*Some people would not know how they worked
*A cell phone is small and easil;y lost
* Cellphone writing can lead to people forgetting how to write
*People may stop writing books!
*Everyone would know what you're doing
*People could your personal details
*You would get told off more
*More text bullying
*you'd be forever on the phone!

And the interesting
*Just because you had to have one...would that you had to use one?
*Would schools let you bring them to class?
*How would they police you having one?
*What age would it be from?
*What about babies?
*Will you forget how to spell?
*Will people die from just sitting and texting?

We then moved on to Cultural Patterns.
Today we chose one culture to focus on and used the clases of patterns to help us patterns specifically used within each culture. For example Greek patterns are spiral based, meandering patterns which often show reflection where as Australian Aborigional patterns are very meandering.

As a class we then gathered ideas about how patterns are created and then what types of skills the creator would use.

We then had a go at copying the culture pattern of our choice. Some were harder than they looked!

Lily giving greek a go...............Judah and Phoebe working on Africkan Andinkra

Spanish Cognates

Working on our Spanish pronounciation...lots of eeeeeeeeeeesssss today
We then went through the Head shoulders, knees and toes song. Jacqui made it reslly hard by going faster and faster!! Easy in English...not so much in Spanish!

Talent Time

Here's Tom creating methods in Alice. His challenge is to get 2 characters to shake hands....not easy!

Joey working on music.

Just before lunch we had a 4X4 challenge...although today it was a 2X2 challenge!
We had to attach string to our wrists which linked around our partners and then without removing the string we had to sepertae the two handcuffs. This was a lot of fun and like Tuesday's class no one managed to solve it!! We thought we would give it a go next week with our parents and teachers.