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Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 20, 2018—Our final day commenced with the presentation of several students’ practice persuasive speeches. Students adapted to constructive feedback and were able to speak to the whole class with confidence! During this session, we began our exploration of the fifth stage of Monroe’s motivated sequence, the Call to Action. Students incorporated calls to action and “I...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 19, 2018—Our morning began with a brisk round of “Bop” to encourage us to remember to attempt to fully see and hear one another. After revisiting yesterday’s content and further exploration of the Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, one student shared a persuasive speech written in response to yesterday’s prompt; though we are still not going to watch...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Rising 7th)
Jul. 19, 2018—I can’t believe we are nearing the end of the week. Today was an excellent adventure for our students as they were able to fully act as behavioral economists. This morning they designed their own studies aimed at observing some of the phenomena of human behavior. Groups conducted classroom studies with their peers as participants....
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 3 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 18, 2018—Day three commenced with a few iterations of The Line, with students ultimately embodying an imagined six thousand year old kitchen table. We used the scenario of the table as a jumping-off point to identify problems in our hypothetical kitchen and to brainstorm potential solutions; in so doing, we illustrated that any problem in a...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 3 – Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Rising 7th)
Jul. 18, 2018—Another great day of SAVY! Today we analyzed a few combinatorial games. We talked about how game theorists study these games by observing how many potential moves are left and which spots they could be in. Then we can determine if the current setup is a winning state or a losing state for either player....
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Our day started with a bang! Students were introduced to a fun ice-breaker known as “The Line,” where individuals must chose a character or item that might be found in a pre-selected location, describe that character or item, and them embody its physical essence in the space. One by one, we added to the scene,...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Rising 7th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Already two days have flown by! The class is really picking up steam now as we further analyzed simultaneous, complete information, discrete, finite, non-cooperative, 1 on 1 games. This morning we looked at the prisoner’s dilemma with a twist. What if people have different levels of guilt from stealing or sharing? Can we gain an...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 1 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 16, 2018—What a great first day! Our morning began with lively introductions followed by completion of concept maps designed to explore the term “persuasion”. Following, we constructed a working definition of the term that will serve our class’s needs: “An ethical means of influencing and motivating others.” We engaged in a community-building exercise designed to illuminate...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 1 – Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Rising 7th)
Jul. 16, 2018—Happy first day of SAVY! The class got off to a great start today as we introduced the basic principles in game theory. We defined games as far as the context of our class is concerned and consider game theory as the study of strategy. We practiced studying games by looking at the classical example...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 1 – Becoming a Botanist (Rising 1st)
Jul. 16, 2018—We had a wonderful first day. Getting to know each other is always first and foremost, so we enjoyed a getting to know you activity. I love having previous students in new SAVY courses, as well as meeting new students! We have already established a close community of curious learners! We began with a pre-assessment...