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WHY THIS … I have been asked to run a course with a leading city college for its Literature and Journalism students starting June. The department wants the students to experience visualizing, making and creating as an enriching academic resource. At the moment, I see PLA tools being valuable to the students in understanding and representing their own work. I am unsure of what my curriculum would be at this stage, but if I do choose the PLA method, I would opt for the tools I have listed below.  As these are students of Humanities, they rely heavily on text and written word for all their work, it will hence be interesting to work on visual tools with them. I believe that a process guided by visuality and participation rather than text will train them to Reexamine, Analyse and Reconstruct their views and beliefs with a more discerning eye, the skill of reflective observation is crucial to all students, more so for those of the Humanities.  My choice of tools is guided by the ide...

It feels strange to call this piece -outlining the end, I had immense fun working on this project and meeting all the people I did. Being true to my approach this far, I worked on Synthesis 2 using 'making with technology'. Through the course of this paper, I have engaged in varied forms of making to present my ideas. I feel sad to let this process end, but I am super excited that I have arrived at a new question/ problem to start thinking about! To outline the end of  Problems as Projects I followed three steps -  Step 1 I used the findings from Synthesis Version-1 and analyzed it through the lens of ' Understanding'.  I read Understanding by Design  -  Grant Wiggins & Jay Tighe to lead me through this process. Each time I located ideas in the readings which corroborated with Synthesis 1, I made note, annotated the ideas, and supported the reading with examples from my findings.  Step 2  I applied the 6 Facets of Understanding to the s...