First class of this semester and we start out by playing with string. Seems to have no relevance to English right? Wrong! It has everything to do with English and how we learn as students. At first you struggle to even know what to do with the string, just like the first week of classes. Once you learn or taught what to do with the string you begin to play around with it and create different things with the string that look really cool. This is when you are figuring out how to learn for a particular class and you experiment with different things to find what is most useful for the particular subject. The final step is figuring out how to do a really cool figure and being able to repeat it over and over again. Which is similar to when you find out to be successful in class and can do it over and over again for classes. Another thing that the string games is challenge you to think in different ways and also try new things with no consequence. This is what I got out of the string game what do you think it's purpose was?
I agree with how the string games relate with English and how you learn as a student.
ReplyDeleteI also think the purpose of the string games were to figure out how we best learn, and interpret information. By either watching the video, watching a friend, or reading the direction we were to figure out the game. This tells us how we best learn and work our way out of difficult situations.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything you said. Once I got my first one right I felt a sense of accomplishment and I think that once we all start achieving in class all the tasks will become easier and we'll be able to do it again and again.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that kind of struck me when we were playing with them was the pace. Everyone is different and having that freedom to go about figuring things out on your own is really useful. Everyone has their own learning styles and ways of approaching things, it gave us the ability to do it over and over again.
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