Researching Research

Intrepid Extend Essay writers: for Tuesday, please interview a senior IB diploma candidate about her process in researching and writing her extended essay.  In your discussion, explore the following aspects of her work:

• What approaches worked well, and which were dead-ends?
• The next time she embarks on such a project, what would she do differently?  Consider schedule and time management, her approach, other.
• What about the adventure was most rewarding, most challenging, most frustrating?

Again, your conversation should focus on the process rather than the product.  Take notes as you talk and listen, and come to class ready to share and consider what you've discovered.   I would like each of you to meet with a different senior, thus affording us a broad collective base of knowledge. Happy hunting.

Now Presenting...Free Will!

In addition to emailing me a time outside of our class periods when we might meet to discuss your presentation, please prepare the following before said meeting:

• One or more real world situations
• One or more Knowledge Questions for each real world situation
• One or more ideas for possible formats for your presentation

In the meantime, and since our next two class times will be devoted to planning meetings, please read this article on the nature and importance of free will.  For Friday morning (I know, it's usually for Thursday) please extract one KQ and identify two ways of knowing referred to or employed in the article.  Whether you want to or not.