Alexis' Blog

This week for my reading workshop our goal is to identify several ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose, and understand the relationships in the text. The book we are reading is about emotional robots here it is:  Text: Emotional Robots For the create task we had to create a presentation/poster here is mine: Have you learned about robots before?

For the past term we have been taking a Stanford math course which helps us understand math and why we use it. Here is what we learnt. - Having a growth mindset toward math is very important because if you get a math equation wrong then we should never give up and always keep on trying because struggle helps our brain grow. - Math is every where in nature, dance, sport, animals we don't notice how important math can be. - People say that you are either a math person or not but this is not true at all because even if you are not as good at math everyone can improve and become more confident in math. - When it comes to math speed doesn't matter because some of the best mathematicians are slow and take their time working math out. - It is important to communicate with others and share ideas and answers because if there is something you don't understand then by communicating with others they can help you understand what you are struggling with. There is a lot more

This term everyone is making a fitness circuit in pairs and sharing it with others in our class. Once we have created one we would all put it on one google slide and the teachers will pick the best ones to print out. Gaby and I made this fitness circuit. Have you ever made a fitness circuit?

This term for our P.B.L the driving question is what will the future ask of us? In our hub we have been having lot's of discussions about this here is what we were talking about. We first talked about our world problems and what the top 5 would be here are some examples of our world problems. *Climate Change/Global Warming *Corrupt Politicians *Discrimination *Mental Health/ Illness *Unnecessary Drugs/Addiction *Poverty/ 3rd World Countries *Over Population We then started talking about how technology has evolved so much because soon enough robots/AI will starts taking our jobs and replacing people. But for people we have things that robots don"t have like: Emotions, Creativity, Originality, and we are able to connect with other people. We watched some videos about how much tech has evolved and to be honest it can be very scary because they potentially take over everything we have. We then made a padlet and shared all our ideas and discussed what makes us differen

On Wednesday our hub went live for a day. Over the last term we have been working on a project that is about discrimination, we got to choose how we presented it there was Podcast, Talks, Poetry Slam, and Dramas for mine I did a Talk. Here is mine: Reflection: I think that we all worked really hard on our projects and spent lot's of time presenting and planning everything we all are very thankful for our teachers too for supervising and always giving us advice on our work for they have always planned big events like this for us. My talk is about raising awareness in racism because it is a thing that is ruining our world and we need to stop it. Would you rather perform a , Talk, Poetry Slam, Podcast or Drama?

On the 3rd of July everyone in the Kaupeka hub is performing about discrimination. We got to choose out of doing a Ted Talk, Poetry Slam, Drama or a Pod Cast for mine I am am doing a Ted Talk on racism. We made invitations for everyone here is mine. Will you be able to join us in stopping discrimination?