Blog Post 3

This week I learned about project based learning.  In this respect, Popplet proved itself to be a useful tool for organizing lessons plans and expounding ideas for students. It is an efficient means for structuring a project in a comprehensive manner, that is both easy on the eyes and easy to understand. This format will hopefully be useful for my future teaching tasks.
Along with my progress with Popplet, my genius hour project seems to be coming along at a steady pace. I still have some work to do on sorting out the primary content. That is the real root of the project, identifying philosophical foundations in fictional literature. While this will take some research, I am confident in my ability to get this part of the project done without too much difficulty. Time management will be my greatest issue in this respect. With that said, I have sorted out a list of thirty fictional books I have read which I will use in the project. They all have potential for significant philosophical connections and, perhaps most importantly, they offer the opportunity for diverse philosophical comparisons in terms of philosophical subject matter and subsequent disciplines. This last point is crucial, as it would be pretty boring to apply the same or similar philosophical theories or subject matter to the same books over and over again. Hence, diversity in this regard will be central to increasing the informative power and creative exploration of my genius hour project in general. My goal for this week is to complete fifteen philosophical connections with the fictional texts I have selected and to prepare a script for my Ted Talk next week.