In the Preparation stage you will consider the elements that make you 'ABLE' to complete your project. At this point, work on the structure, plan and management of your project.
In this section you need to provide evidence and reflection on:
How can I apply knowledge and skills, global competencies, and literacies?
Consider what you have learned and areas that you have grown as a WABBIE, an international student, an IB DP candidate or the special person that you are.
As a student at WAB you have been developing global and intercultural competencies, in addition to learning the design process and various FUTURE NOW literacies.
Consider the tools on this page and think about how you might incorporate them into your Project Plan.
The Western Academy of Beijing realizes that, as global citizens, we have a responsibility towards the world around us that extends outside the classroom. Being global citizens is about making a difference.
There are four Global Competencies that you may want to demonstrate in your project:
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Might you be able to apply the Design Cycle to your project?
MYP Design Cycle
How do I develop understanding in myself through this process?
When you plan your project, identify 2-3 learning outcomes that you would like to focus your reflections on.
Make sure you identify what specific goals you have for yourself.
A Gantt chart, commonly used in project management, is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities (tasks or events) displayed against time. On the left of the chart is a list of the activities and along the top is a suitable time scale. Each activity is represented by a bar; the position and length of the bar reflects the start date, duration and end date of the activity.
This allows you to see at a glance:
YOU CAN MAKE A GANTT CHART IN EXCEL, WORD or specific Project Management programs
USE EXCEL TO MAKE A GANTT CHART
USE Word TO MAKE A GANTT CHART
How might you communicate with others as part of your project? How might you demonstrate, collect and curate information about your project?
Basic Literacy: The ability to read & write many types of text
Media Literacy: The ability to understand media and visual messages, as well as create messages.
Digital Citizenship: The quality of habits, actions and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.
Global Literacy: The knowledge, skills, and dispositions to understand and act creatively and innovativally on issues of global significance
Network Literacy: The capabilities to obtain a basic understanding of network technology, being able to craft ones’ own network identity, understand network intelligence and understand network capabilities.
Information Literacy: The ability to identify, locate, filter, evaluate, analyze, tag, categorize, re-mix, create new types of information and effectivity use information for an issue or problem at hand.
GOING DEEPER!
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FUTURE TRENDS IN LITERACY AND SEE IF YOU MIGHT WANT TO EXPLORE ONE IN YOUR PROJECT
Future literacies are evolving in areas listed below. CLICK HERE to read more about these exciting trends
