Cowabunga! Pinch of Ingenuity of Project Design Admits Erratic Time

I have been planning to write this article for a while. Last month, we chatted about “Revisiting Objectives”. What would be the mindset, behaviour, and/or knowledge that’d be healthy to address in our future courses?

Commensurately, I was thinking about the “activities” that our school BAScii has been practicing since the very beginning, we acquiesced being innovative in class as granted. “Perhaps it’s the high time to retake a glimpse at the class per se?” I wondered, “What smites and activates students ?” I discusses with K.Sacha, and I was ready to redesign a project / assignment for the class, and my objective, is to vis-à-vis more, with more back-to-normal interactions, albeit hybrid teaching mode continues, at least that was what I reckoned with initially.

To demonstrate, I want to be congenial with my students. I want students to re-introduce themselves to me, after all, I haven’t NOT e-met them for ages! Weirdly I miss that boisterous class. Are they well? Do all the break out rooms still intrigue them? And most importantly, are they ostentatiously follow our (my colleague Pietro, and me) lead, whilst they already lost their cool for all activities that we thought it might be somewhat thought-provoking?

My plan is: in the next advising session (which I kept doing since last month experiment: Reflecting on Reflection), I shall ask all members (around 8 people) to have a face-to-face gathering, outside, mask on, air-ventilated, social-distancing-abided. I would advise them, ask them to give candid feedback onto class activities, guide them if they have any issues, and answer their clarification of final. If everything went well, I would arrange few more bouts for other mates.

Well, none of them happened. Few days before this plan got implemented, Thailand got raided on its pandemic third-wave. Everyday 1000-ish (as the matter the fact, later on the number is doubled) thwarted me from any physical attachment. When my idea hampered,I was in the blank, almost half month has had past, I still didn’t gauge any result. I felt unparalleled pressure under that moment. As a method of modern barnstorming, I started to watch the videos, read books, skim web pages to collect inspirations. One of the which comes from Catherine Thimmesh during her Ted Talk. What I got from which is not be ensnared from one state.

Ultimate epiphany accomplished when I was thinking about how to write this exact article on Medium. With the help of my colleagues, we reached the consensus, chanting: Why don’t we ask our students to be “scholars” anyway? I founded our own Medium corner. The purpose is to change a “box” for students to share their stories, objectives are same as what this month’s experiment wants: mindset, behaviour, and/or knowledge. The box is not “the public mingle”, but to subpoena the “cartel” of self-reflection, self-envision.

As lassiez-faire as it sounds, we firstly asked students to re-introduce themselves to us. I want students, after almost one-year of online education, to fetch us a brand-new self, and merge those in their intro. Astonishingly, I am elated to saw all the development these kids got, including some “shenanigans” which they have been doing.

In one article written by our student Rada, she “memoired” her “journey map” throughout the “Zoom-education”.

From “being awkward” , to jovial outcomes, I am more than exhilarated to witness the storyline of “acclimatization”behind her.

Here are another few:

Been through the utter adjustment of the experiment made this month special. It also teaches me a lesson: Teaching is ambidextrous, and essentially, amorphous.

From formidable to fruitful, my “journey map” has been truly delectable. Stay astray outside comfort zone to design something new can be hard to see the end of the tunnel; creativity in practice might not be always convivial, and change might occour anytime. But the minute when you’ve made it, you know everything is worthy.

I plan to continue doing “this” through next semester, to gain more insights from more students. Will the post-pandemic recovery be rapid, or tardy? Hard to say. What I got, is this pinch of ingenuity, navigate me via such arduous era.

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