Unit 28 · What we made this year
Week 29 · 45 minutes · 10th and 11th grade · your project, alone or in a group · without AI · as we planned it.
What you’ll do
Your portfolio is your project’s journey. It starts with the three possible projects you wrote in Unit 01, continues with the one you chose in Unit 02 and the perturbations that changed it —everyone’s, your card and, if you got one, the made-to-measure perturbation—, and goes through its milestones: the first version in November, the one in February that another person could try, and the use in April, with what changed because of it. Today you go through all of it, decide what will be shown in June to people from outside the classroom and ask permission for each piece. Nobody generates anything today.
If your project changed direction, joined another one or split, that change is part of the journey, not a gap. If it’s missing a milestone, you note what happened instead. And if your project was without AI, the machine’s column becomes the technique you chose, and why: it’s your method, and it counts as such.
Why it’s worth it
Choosing your own work with judgment is a craft. And showing it to others is a responsibility: the piece carries your work, your team’s and sometimes your voice. That’s why nothing leaves the room without your family’s written consent, piece by piece.
How the session goes
- Anticipate. Without looking: what were your project’s stops? You write what you think you’ll choose.
- Act. With your card and the group’s folder, you fill in the journey sheet: at each milestone, what’s yours, what the machine made, what belongs to others and what you decided. The pieces are played or described aloud. Then the third review of the room agreement: what changes when people from outside see what we made? At the end you choose and fill in one permission request per piece.
- Reflect. Did what you anticipated come out? Your team stands up and says in one sentence what changed most in its project. One milestone per project on the two-column board. Looking at the whole year: what did the AI decide here that a person should have decided? One minute in silence to write the year’s division of work on your card, and two lines: what you choose to show and why, and what you keep and why.
No screens. The agreement review and the choice of pieces happen with no phone, no computer and no AI: you discuss, write or dictate, and decide what is done with AI when people from outside see it, which pieces go out, with what credits, and which stay in the room.
Each member marks yes or no in private, also by dictating it. One no is enough —yours, someone on your team’s or a family’s— for a piece to stay in the room, with no explanation and no comment. And permission can be withdrawn at any time, even on the day of the showcase.
If your project is without AI, in the year’s reflection the question for you is: what did you decide, and why? And for each piece you can say which technique it was made with.
The criteria, as questions
- C1. Did you choose with a reason other than “it’s the prettiest”?
- C2. Does every chosen piece have its permission requested, and does your whole team agree?
- C3. Can you say what’s yours and what the machine made in each piece? (In 11th: and what belongs to others?)
To get ready
Look again at your project card and your pieces in the group’s folder. The journey sheet you fill in today is the script for the next Unit.