This morning the main learning intention was to have students create a plan of action for the next 4 periods using the learning wall and all our ideas on it. In short, they needed to outline how they would start the inquiry process. Well it was a bit scary because not much seems to have transferred from the guided inquiry process of Decide, Find, Record, Select, Present and Evaluate. From the action plans of some students the exhibition will be ready for visitors late Friday afternoon!
This is a bit of a hurdle and I am not quite sure how to overcome it because if we go into next period on the basis of the current action plans chaos will surely ensue.
Most students don't have a clear idea about why we are doing this exhibition I think which makes it hard to appeal to an audience. The idea of an exhibition display actually teaching the visitors something is a hard one; perhaps many students don't even fully realise what it means to be "taught" (that's ironic). Maybe we need to deconstruct this further too. Perhaps "provoke" or "make them think" would be better words. Brainstorming synonyms for teaching could be an interesting little exercise.
I guess one thing that will help is getting a few students to survey our potential audience. We really need to do some market research here. A few students visiting some exhibition designers and reporting back will also be of use and we are hopefully going to Te Papa this week too.
Perhaps they all need to do an individual research proposal where they write down their "rich question", a statement about why they think it is of significance or actually important to invest time into, key sources they will draw from, a statement about how their topic will juggle the hope and despair aspect of apocalypse, and a rough time line for completion. Based on today's time line this will be hopelessly inaccurate but it gives us something to reflect on.
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