Reflection Presentations Done Creatively.


Every Thursday I have had the pleasure of listening to group presentations on their thoughts and reflections on the week’s topic(s) in my class—Class, Caste, and Gender. This week was about women’s movements in India. Students recited poems, sung songs, danced, chanted, etc. and they are heartfelt. I so badly wanted to record some of them but felt it would be disrespectful to do so without asking them. Instead, here is a famous poet in India and a link to some of her poems translated in English.

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http://sunflowercollective.blogspot.com/2017/08/poems-amrita-pritam-translated-by.html











I love watching these presentations. It is so nice to see different students analyse the topic(s) and demonstrate their understanding in a creative way. In so many ways, my Professor is teaching the Design Thinking Process (DTP) method without consciously doing so. Through these presentations, he is asking students to empathize with the topics and people that they are learning about in class. It makes me realize that DTP does not have to be completed all the time through all the 5 steps—empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test. It is essential that the foundation is set and students understand each of these 5 stages and then teachers can use parts of DTP in each unit while having 2 times a years as full DTP projects. As a teacher, I can say this seems manageable.

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