Assignment 2a Semester 2

To continue on with our team project we were to meet up and discuss post consumerism, all doing research and bringing what we had to the table, what we produced is a mind map that we will put into the form of a poster, the poster will be added to the blog pretty soon.

Assignment 1.2 Semester 2

The second part of this was to guess the scores of all the members in our groups then discuss them with each other, finding out if we were right or not. For the majority of us, we all in general made the right guesses and there were some that we found quite surprising.

There were points after we revealed our own results that we would say that we thought you would have been more of this than that, everyone had an area where we discussed this. There were even points during the discussion where we would say of how surprised we were of our own results, thinking before we took the questionnaire that we would be more this than that and that we would disagree with them. In the end we all agree with the results of our learning skills.

The dominant areas in our group are in the Activist and Reflector modes and that most of us had low for Theorist. We found out that some of us had similar results, and I would agree as during past meetings we have all spoken about our views and ideas, and all understand each other's as we all pretty much have the same ones.

Even though we are all quite practical people, being at an art college, we have all been very surprised just how low we all were in the Pragmatist mode and talked about how we can improve upon this. We all need to be aware on the areas we are most weakest in and need to work together to do so, we need to think, take time, and apply this mode of learning and thinking for our future assignments.

Assignment 1.1 Semester 1

To begin this new semester at university, we have been assigned to take part in a questionnaire that would determine where our better learning skills lay. There are four modes learning skills on the test, Activist, Reflector, Theorist and Pragmatist. These are the results I produced:

Activist: Strong

Reflector: Strong

Theorist: Low

Pragmatist: Very Low

When analyzing these results with the information provided I agree with the results of my learning styles. I feel that I learn best under all of the listed categories. With being involved in new experiences I always find them a bit daunting a first but once I get into them I find I learn a great deal from them and improve my understanding with each new experience. When working within a team, I feel that I can both listen to other team member’s opinions as well as express my own. I tend to dislike being thrown into the deep end but this is where I tend to work at my best as I just work endlessly until I get the job done.

I find it quite difficult to learn much when I am reading or writing, I have always found it difficult to concentrate if I am reading anything outside of fiction, I don’t know what it is but I struggle to understand or gain anything from reading and analyzing books and articles, I have to have someone there to help explain things to me.

For my results in the Reflector area I agree with the fact that I will observe other people’s view before expressing my own, this is because it helps me understand my own opinion and further improve upon it. When working on a project or an idea I collect as much research as I can to help with my final outcome, this is because I feel that I must research as much I can to understand what I am doing and to come up with the best outcome I can come up with.

The skills that I find weaker are my leadership skills and this is because I find it difficult to instruct others to do something, the responsibility of leading people makes me nervous.

With the other two areas that are my weakest are the Theorist and Pragmatist. For working on this team project I will try to take on board and pick up on some of the skills that other members may be stronger at so that I can work better within the team and as an individual.