Hello and welcome back to another one of my blog posts. The project I am going to reflect on today set up the course it is a part of (BC First Peoples) and had us explore why it is important. This project was mostly a review of what we have already learned about the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada, but it brought new meaning as we were able to talk about these topics in a more mature way.
At the beginning of this project we learned about the concepts of two-eyed seeing and the First Peoples’ principles of learning. Both of these concepts can be applied to how we will learn throughout this course for the rest of the year. I was glad we learned about them this early. At first I found them hard to wrap my head around, as it is hard to look at things from both a new perspective and your existing one, but by the end of the first week I felt that I had a complete and deep understanding of both topics and will be able to apply both to my future learning.
The part of this project that I am most proud of is the writing I did at the end of it and the semantic map I created. Something I struggle with sometimes is communicating my whole understanding through to the work I create, but this time I was successful in my communication. I think that both of these pieces of work are examples of nuanced, cogent, and original work. This is because of how this project was timed compared to the Manhattan Project. All of the benchmarks were due about a week after the ones for the MP, meaning I could apply what I learned about what did and didn’t work for me on those and apply that to how I approached this project.
See you in the next post!
Neko