Unit 11 · Thirty seconds that grew

Week 12 of the program · 45 minutes · 10th and 11th grade · integration Unit · the November milestone.

What you’re going to do

In September, your project was a sentence: “I want to make… for… because…”. Reading it takes about thirty seconds. Today you read it aloud and, right after, you show or play the first version that came out of it: with your words, your voice and your cuts. Before and after.

First at your affinity table, everyone. Then each table brings one project before the whole room, if its team wants to. And as always, there’s a vote: not the best one, the one that changed most.

Why it’s worth it

It’s easy to feel you’re not getting anywhere. It’s hard to argue with it when you’re hearing it. Today you have the evidence of what you can do now.

Your project doesn’t have a first version yet? That isn’t a failure and it isn’t hidden: you read your September sentence and today’s, say what exists and what’s missing, and write your first step. It counts just the same.

How the session goes

• Anticipate. You recall the September criteria and write what you think changed most in your project.
• Act. Before and after, in short turns, at low volume; whatever is visual, its own team describes aloud. The vote, by knocking on the table. And a surprise: a version from the other group.
• Reflect. “What did the AI decide here that a person should have decided?” If your project is without AI, the question for you is a different one and weighs the same: “What did you decide, and why?” Without screens, the group reviews its agreement: which rule worked, which wasn’t kept, how the generation budget —or the materials and time budget— and the division of work were kept, and decides what changes from today in how we use AI. It gets signed again. And we look toward February.

The criteria, as questions

The ones from Unit 01, now about your first version:

• C1. Can you tell it comes from something of yours, and not from what was shown in class?
• C2. Can you tell what changed since your September sentence, and can you say why?
• C3. Did someone who isn’t on your team hear it, see it or try it today, and understand what it’s for? (11th: would someone who thinks differently listen to it without feeling insulted?)

What’s next

In February, your project has a version someone else can try, play or hear. Your first step, this very week: think about who outside your team is going to try it, and about one thing they should be able to do without you explaining it.

To start looking: the library assistant.

Careful

Your version is heard or seen by the room only if your team wants, and in the other group only if your team agrees in writing. Nothing leaves the school. Nothing is generated today.

This is a plan: the Unit hasn’t run yet.