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Senior Project 2012Awesome
Memorizing ThinkingAcademic Best Personal Best
Follow Curriculum
Follow Interests
Hints at What Your Grade Will Be
Hints at What Your Future Will Be
Involves Risk TakingInvolves Playing it
SafeRelies on Knowing Answers
Relies on Asking Right Question
Being Scholarly
Being Smart
Finding the right question
Topic:Beauty
Question:Do magazines promote unhealthy images of beauty?
Question:Would you be willing to become extremely
ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?
Revolving Research
I agree
It’s bothI disagree
It’s neither
They Say
Group ActivityFor each magazine article, identify:•The topic•The focus question
So What? Who Cares?“The problem is not necessarily that the speakers lack a clear, well-focused thesis or that the thesis is inadequately supported with evidence. Instead, the problem is that the speakers don’t address the crucial question of why their arguments matter.”
Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say
Group ActivityPrioritize the 6 questions from most relevant to least relevant
How on earth does anyone propose to assign a number to something as complex as a college or university?
Will technology be a form of tyranny or will it free us from tyranny? Will it upend democracy or strengthen
it?
If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new
mainstream look like and how will white Americans fit into it?
What explains teenage behavior?
Can parents harm their children by doing too much?
Topic Brainstorming
Objective:Leave class with 25 viable senior project
ideas that you are genuinely enthusiastic
about
This is what enthusiasm looks like
Brainstorming Tip #1Turn off your inner critic
The Brain has two hemispheres
Right brain functions
ThoughtIntuitionCreativityArt &
Music
Left brain functionsAnalytic Thought
Logic
LanguageScience &
Math
The Right Brain keeps you from turning into Spock
Right brain functions
ThoughtIntuitionCreativityArt &
Music
The Left Brain keeps you from turning into a Space Hippie
Left brain functionsAnalytic Thought
Logic
LanguageScience &
Math
To generate good ideas, you must silence your inner critic
Right brain functions
ThoughtIntuitionCreativityArt &
Music
Left brain functions
That ideas is dumb.It will never work.
And let your creative side play
Right brain functions
Left brain functions
This is fun!
How do I do that?
Limit your time!Don’t give your brain time to criticize.
Give yourself 20 minutes to come up 50 ideas.
Record your ideas on sticky notes
IDEA 1
IDEA 3
IDEA 2
IDEA 4Organize them later
Or mind maps!
Stay away from the computer - it will slow you down
Collaborate with others
In five years, what do I hope to have accomplished?
Make lists of interests, hobbies, goals, concerns
What do I want to do better?
What do I want to learn more about?
What experiences do I want to have?
What controversial issues do I feel strongly about?
What professions am I interested in?
What problems do I want to see solved?
What organizations or groups do I admire?
Where would I like to travel?
Brainstorming Tip #2Look for inspiration elsewhere
Where?
Reference books
Magazines Databases
LIBRARY RESOURCES