Summary of Class 4/12 and 4/22

On the Friday before April Vacation, we took a look at the push and the pull factors for people moving west. Since no one was able to watch the sophia video from the night before, we took the time in class to watch it. For each topic (push and pull), we had to come up with three questions. These questions were later used in our socratic seminar. Each question had a different level of difficulty where in one question, the answer was obvious, in the other you had to analyze to find the answer, and in the last one ,you had to think beyond the video and connect it to the world. In our socratic seminar, we were assigned to either a push or a pull factor and based on which group you were in, you either had to have a discussion while the other group listened and took notes or you were the group that took notes, while listening to the other group. Once ten minutes was done, the roles changed. In class today we were in the computer lab and we were introduced to the 16% plan. This plan gives us 6 days of class time to work on accomplishing the goal of getting a badge on a topic that we have chosen from a list. With this topic that we chose for our badge, we have to complete multiple quests along the way. These are going to be judged by a group of people, but will not count as a grade in any way. We are supposed to present our finding to our class on June 10th.