San Diego Breakout Reflection

  • How did having limited time to play the game impact your teamworkI worked by myself so it did not actually impact me.
    • What strategies might you use to help this? N/A
    • What tips would you suggest to others?  Just click on everything.
  • How did having limited time impact or shape your thinking during the game? It didn’t much because I got the 1st 3 done really quickly so I had plenty of time left.
    • What strategies might you use to support your thinking? Just do it faster.
    • What tips would you suggest to others? Figutr out the easy ones and do those first.
  • In what way(s) were your critical thinking and strategies different during the timed games than they were during the initial games? You just always had to be aware of the time so that was just an extra thing to worry about.

What Top 3 strategies/tips would you suggest to others when playing a timed game?

Always be aware of the time.

Don’t let the time stress you out.

If you have 5 minutes left, just keep trying to figure out the one you’re on instead of making random guesses.

MInecraft Reflection

  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

That it was not as hard or as long as the last challenge. The last challenge had 8 different problems and it was timed. This one only had 4.

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

How far should I go to find this answer?

Am I doing the right thing?

  • What was your “aha” moment during this challenge? How did this impact finishing the challenge?

When the survey said that if I pressed submit I would know that I would be doing the right thing and not just following a dead end.

  • How did this challenge compare to the other two we have completed?

Og’s Great Adventure was pretty easy and probably compared most to this one. The shimmy shamrocks one was much longer and harder to complete.

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

Making sure that everything I did was correct.

  • What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? (Use the strategy sheet for this! If you used a different strategy, list it here as well)

Everyone trying to figure out the answers on their own Chromebooks.

Silly Shamrocks Reflection

  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

The leprechauns were mean and kept leaving their silly shamrocks all over the place!

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

Why is that wrong?

  • How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session?

It put a little more pressure on you but not much because it was pretty high.

  • What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge?

There’s another topper on his head!

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

Figuring out how to put pictures into colors or numbers.

  • What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge?

Never giving up on a challenge and including everyone’s suggestions.

Og’s Great Adventure

  • What did you notice or observe during the challenge?

Goo is an idiot. The mom bribed us.

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

How does this connect to the challenges?

  • When did you first begin drawing connections between the different puzzles and pictures?

When we figured out what they stood for.

  • What were those connections?

Well, those dinosaurs here, and dinosaurs there, so maybe they have something to do with each other.

  • What were your biggest clues?

The colors corresponded.

  • What was the most challenging?

The word one.

  • What was your biggest ah-ha moment? Why?

We realized it was a hidden code.

Reflecting On Clue

 

  • What thinking moves did you use when playing this game (questioning, connecting, listening, observing, deducing, reasoning, etc?

I used deducting because if a player showed somebody all 3 cards from a guess then I knew all of that guess was wrong.

  • How did organizing your information impact your experience playing the game?

It makes it easier to just see what everyone has at all times.

  • Where else do you use these thinking skills (at school, at home, on sports teams, etc)?

At school during other subjects.

  • When might you need this kind of thinking?

When you’re a detective and you need to use clues to determine who did it, how they did it, and where they did it.

ETC Reflection Questions

ETC Reflection Questions Day 2

Group Members: eshamah, Gev. Noorlander, Gev. Mcadams

 

Scribe: eshamah

 

Reflection Facilitator: Gev. Noorlander

 

Reporter: Gev. Mcadams

 

Materials: Gev. Noorlander

 

      • What knowledge did you have when you began the game? We all knew how to play the game and we all had systems for tracking who had what.

 

      • What knowledge did your opponents have? We all had the knowledge of knowing what cards each of us had. We also had knowledge of strategies in the game.

 

      • In what way(s) did you use other players knowledge?  We saw how other players used cards and used the knowledge to our advantages.

 

      • Did this additional information actually help you? Yes, it helped us make accurate guesses.

 

      • What information or “clues” did you use to make suggestions? The information other players gave me.

 

      • What kind of information do you get when another player made a suggestion? You were able to figure out specific persons, places, or things.

 

      • What were you able to deduce, or draw as logical conclusions from this information? We were able to see what items might be more popular like trends.

 

      • In what way(s) might this help you solve the mystery? By giving us more information.

 

      • How did or might you keep track of this information? We used charts physically and electronically by categorizing.

First Clue

 

  • What did you notice or observe during the game?

That it was not very difficult to play with only 3 people.

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

Who did it, where did they do it, and how.

  • When did you first begin drawing connections between different characters, clues, pieces of information?

As soon as I got dealt my cards.

  • What were those connections?

I realized that since I had those cards they couldn’t have been part of the crime.

  • What were your biggest clues?

When someone made a guess and they were wrong and got out.

  • What information seems most important to collect?

Who did it, where, and how.

  • *What is the difference between an observation and information?

Observations are what you do to find information.

Testing Our Rapunzel Creations

What materials did you choose for your build and why?

we chose to use slime to cushion the fall of the princess. We used model magic to make the princess and the prince. We used cardboard tubes as the tower. We used paint to paint the tower.

Here is a picture of my first attempt at the building process:

While you test:

 

What are you noticing?

A lot of towers look very similar.

What things are working?

The slide on the tower.

What things are not working?

The model magic people are fragile.

How will you tweak this? Make this better? (Be specific and detailed!)

Put hot glue over the model magic creatures. 

Do you need any new materials? If so, WHY?

Hot glue to glue the model magic.

Why will this new design work better than your first attempt? What is your evidence?

The model magic people will not break.

Building Reflection

What about the building process was challenging?

Half of our group spent the entire making slime and the other half had to do the entire rest of the project.

How did your build differ from your plan? (If your build was different than your plan, update your plan!)

It did not.

How did your group work well together during the build? What would you do again?

I would paint the tower blue again because you can’t go wrong with a blue tower.

How did your group struggle during the build? What would you change?

I would move away from the slime and try to use something else to cushion the princess’s fall.