The Horse 2021/22

Environment & Technology

IDAF Project M19a

Contact

Eliane Suter, teacher Environment & Technology, wkvw, esuter@dontwastemy.energy
Herbert Amplatz, English teacher, wkvw, herbert.amplatz@wkvw.ch

E&T - 2 lessons: Friday 15:05/15:55 (ends 16:40)
EN - 2 lessons: Friday 11:35/13:20

IDAF - Project
English & Environment & Technology

The Goal: Start, plan and lead a collaboration project with the befter (before & after the experience) method. In the course of IDAF there are at least 3 befter-steps: (1) Imagination, (2) Research, (3) Experience on Site (organizing).

Start IDAF I - W13: 12/03 Friday* 2021

Program

13:20 - 14:05: IDAF Introduction and start
15:05 - 16:40 (2 lessons, Zoom session with Kerala, Izmir)

What to do / Outline

BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE AND WORK IN GROUPS

  • Form groups of two
  • Choose a topic related to Environment & Technology (Introduction by teacher E&T)
  • Write a post on The Horse about: What is your goal and how can it be achieved? (Categories: your class, IDAF21)
  • Get the teachers' consent

*IDAF II - IV

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up
    >merry-christmas-china
    >How much energy do I consume per day?
  2. C-Project Task 1: Collaboration partners
    (C-Project = Collaboration Project)
    =>How will you build a collaboration team across borders & cultures? With whom? (Post on The Horse, Categories: Your class, Collaboration partners)
    Please start to add the link to The Horse in your private OneNote section "Project"

  3. C-Project Task 2: Short audio-visual presentation of your project idea
    See example here     of "maritime transportation"
    Categories: Your class, Project pitch
    Deadline: 17-12-2021
  4. C-Project Task 3: Concept of your project idea
    >See concept example
    (Planing steps, time plan / decide who will do what?)
    Post on The Horse, Categories: see concept example
    Deadline: 17-12-2021
    -------you get your own Project Category-----
  5. Your project category on The Horse (for the collection of drafts & material for your magic composition in progress) =>... [in progress, related to your topic, assigned by the teacher]
  6. C-Project Task 4: Propagate your project on the Mural (digitale Pinwand) so all connected students have an oportunity to collaborate (add a snip to your private OneNote section as a proof)
  7. C-Project Task 5: Vision & Imagination (befter step 1), [in progress]
  8. C-Project Task 6: Research (befter step 2), [in progress]
  9. C-Project Task 7: Experience (befter step 3) [in progress]
  10. Tools: E.g. conducting an interview, online-survey, video making, etc. (see The GIANT Horse knowledge pool)

*IDAF V-VI

Program - Outline - Information

  1. Example for the Vision & Imagination step: "Sustainable packaging" (dontwastemy.energy)

  2. Important: >Guidelines for project work
    Info about KoboToolbox - this is our project tool for online-surveys!
    =>advantages: Open source, for free, unlimited respondents, also works offline.

  3. C-Project Task 7: Communication - Inform about the meetings in the collaboration team
    =>Meeting min 1x per week (When? With whom? Which communication channel (e.g. Zoom, WhatsApp, ...)? What was the result or the decision for further actions?
    =>Post on The Horse, Categories: your class, your project category; Tag: meetings

  4. C-Project Task 8: THE EXPERIENCE
    Perform your experience (research project related to your research question). For example the team could visit a company and do an interview on site! There are different ways to perform something new: For example designing an experiment, doing an interview or survey, asking questions to an experienced person or scientist which explains and shows you exactly how it works. (No ideas? There is a toolbox on «The horse»)
    * Result: A collection of impressions & insights, media (video, audio, images, text, etc.) and maybe new evolving questions.

What to do / Outline

BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE AND WORK IN GROUPS

>Guidelines for project work

  • What is your working hypothesis (wikipedia.org)?
    [Forschungsfrage, Forschungsthema]
  • What are you hoping to demonstrate?
  • How are you going to do it and which tools will you use?
  • Who has done and who will do what?
  • Review and assessment of things done and still to do

Reporting

Each group sends a representative to interview to:

  • report on working methods used and results achieved
  • summarize the main realizations that resulted from your work
  • report on how the results of your work will impact your everyday life – if at all. Will you change some of the ways in which you have been behaving as a result of your conclusions? 

Time frame 5' per student (speak freely, freies Sprechen, ohne Ablesen).

  1. State of the project so far?
  2. International collaboration engagement?
  3. Self-made media so far (Text, photo, audio, video)?
  4. befter Steps :: Experience (team): Contact with experts, interviews, visit on site, surveys, etc.
  5. Reflection and outlook :: Where are you on a scale of 10: from start 1 to publication 10?

Grading Criteria

  • Group mark for clarity, organization and depth of content (counts as half a mark in E&T) =>IDAF-Grading-Template.pdf (729.59 kb)
  • Individual mark for English vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, fluency, depth of content (counts as a full mark in E)
  • The final IDAF mark will consist of half a mark in E&T and half a mark in English.

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