1) What questions did you need to research in order to create your sway?
The questions I created in order to make my sway were:
What are some previous plans BC has had for housing?
What is the current population of BC?
How does BC’s current population have an affect on BC housing?
2) What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?
A new digital tool I tried to use as I worked through this was “Gale Engage” which was a new research information tool I didn’t know existed and the “creative commons-Flickr” for photos that I also didn’t know existed.
3) What was the process you used to investigate the topic and how did you verify and cite the information you found?
The process I used to investigate the topic was to try multiple different variations of the same words into Gale Engage until it gave me information that was of value to this project. To cite my information for the most part I used the cite button that came imbedded with the site already which was very convenient and helpful.
4) How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?
I could have done a better job of keeping on top of my time organization throughout the classes work blocks and taking advantage of the time I had. The process of completing this project for the most part was good and successful.
My Sway link:
Letter to Honorable George Heyman
To Honorable George Heyman,
My name is Eyden Amram, and I am a student at Riverside Secondary School. I am writing to you in the hope of calling your attention to an energy issue in the province of BC, Canada. The issue at hand is the BC Housing Crisis that has been happening over the past several years as well as it is an issue currently. I have conducted research through my school project in hoping of finding the answer to my “bigger question” “What is the future of BC housing?”. I have found what I think may be some good potential options for BC’s housing future as the population continues to grow as well as the economy. One of the options I found could be getting/using more government funding to help fund non-profit organizations buy and lease/rent to people. My hope for these options would be that families and people from more low-income or difficult situations could have more of a chance getting affordable housing in BC. I wanted to call your attention to this problem as I am interested in this issue and will continue to look/observe in the future and watch as the outcome develops. I hope this letter helps draw attention to the issue at hand and presents a somewhat reasonable option for the future BC Housing crisis.
For us, we found Mitosis easier to model because we only had to do it once compared to Meiosis which we had to model twice.
The thing that was probably the most challenging while filming was probably that if we didnt notice a mistake in a past clip and we had to moved on, we would have to restart from that clip. As well the same thing applied if we didn’t add our name tags.
The easiest thing to do in making our movie was probably that we could easily work with the play-dough to play out exactly what we had in mind for our models.
We were very proud of our movie however maybe some of our transitions could have been a bit smoother in ur video.
We worked great together however one obstacle we faced was that Eyden did become sick. However while we were together we helped one another and worked great together.
Mitosis is important because it provides new cells for growth and development. The point of cells performing Mitosis is for regeneration and repair.
Meiosis is important for sexual reproduction. Meisosis produces daughter cells with half as many chrmosomes as the starting cell through a 2 step division process
For my “Community Connections” project I chose to interview a Social Worker through Instagram DM’s. Paige Lachance is a social worker at the “Eagle Ridge Hospital” here in Canada and is the boss of her unit there as well. She has worked for over 5 years to create a safe and welcoming environment for her coworkers and patients. I chose her for my “Community Connections” project because I have always been interested in being a social worker/councilor and have considered it as a job title on multiple occasions. I’ve messaged and met with her numerous times as well. I look to her for any help/questions I have about this and think of her as a mentor for me.
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Paige Lachance
The questions I asked Paige Lachance were…
1. Can you explain your roles and responsibilities with your current position?
She answered with…”. I am currently the social work practice leader in an acute care hospital, my role includes supervising the social workers providing clinical direction and managing the day to day supervising tasks and responsibilities. I am also responsible for providing social work coverage for one of the units which focuses on discharge planning for patients with chronic health care issues and complex issues, including family stress, financial stress and issues etc.”
2. What obstacles have you faced to get you where you are today?
“My job requires me to have various degrees (including my masters in social work). Starting out working in entry level jobs working with high-risk crisis and difficult population including women shelters, for low pay and with different cliental. You are very undervalued in these jobs as well.”
3. What advice would you pass on to someone interested in what you are doing?
“The best advice I would give is to get involved, by volunteering in different shelters or at hospitals. Volunteering is the most important thing because there are many different areas someone can work in when going into social work and It’s the only way to make sure the job is for you.”
4. Why are you passionate about your job or role?
” I love my job because I’m very passionate about social justice, advocating marginalized populations. It’s also a job that is never dull, you’re always challenging yourself and you learn from those you work with, you’ll never have a boring day. It involves meeting new people and it’s such an interesting job. In my current role there is also the added benefit of mentoring others and advocating for change a higher level within the managing circles.”
5. What struggles do you face daily in your current day to day job?
“Staffing shortage, lack of resources, lack of time, increasing demands.”
6. What type of experience have you gained from working in this position?
” I’ve had the opportunity to work with a diverse group of people with diverse and complex issues, I’ve had the opportunity to mentor others including other social workers, to gain leadership skills, to teach social work courses to social work trainings.”
What I have Learned from this interview-Paige Lachance: 
I have learned throughout this interview and project that there are many up and down sides to being a social worker. There were aspects of being a Social Worker that I hadn’t even thought of before I had had a conversation with Paige Lachance. I learned that there would never be a dull moment when there and that you learn something new about someone else all the time. I found it extremely interesting how she had learned different things about different communities, all different types of people and others struggling with all types of things. In addition to that, it was so cool that she as able to shed light to me on the good and bad of that job just through sending DM’s. All in all, she was so helpful throughout this all and has helped me confirm that I will be looking towards this as a possible job option for my future, and I am very thankful for her.
The following is an exploration of “Assimilation vs. Inclusivity” through an expository paragraph on the learning concept of “Apply decision-making strategies to a life, work, or community conflict and adjust the strategies to adapt to new situations”.
Together but divided
The photo ‘Assimilation vs. Inclusivity’ reveals insight on the theme “Apply decision-making strategies to a life, work, or community conflict and adjust the strategies to adapt to new situations”. While examining the photo, the gradient color within the photo, and the camera angle which was a bit a more zoomed out gave the impression of peering through a looking glass. It was quite clear that the artist was trying to communicate the issues that Indigenous Peoples have faced in the past, and still have to live with to this day, which include Residential Schools and the abuse and hate they faced and still do face. On the right side of the photo everyone is presented more content, and cheery, on the left, all the children look the same. The colors relay a more depressing feeling to viewers, they are all the same, grays and blacks as opposed to the children on the far right who are wearing a wider variety of colors. The children to the right also appear to be much more embraced in their own culture in comparison to those children with the identical outfits. They all have longer hair or hair in different styles to represent their different beliefs and are wearing their own traditional clothing. The facial expressions of all of the children also play a big part in this photo conveying the message it does. The children who are wearing the same outfits bear a monotone and unhappy look, they look as if they are just coping with their situation, however the others are smiling big and look much more joyful. It seems as if the artist presented the photo like this on purpose to highlight how they are together in spirit yet still divided. This artwork also conveyed amount/impact in numbers. As the photo moves farther back, it is apparent just how many children are in uniform compared to the others in their traditional clothing. It portrays the affect that resident schools have had on all the Indigenous children to this day even though they have grown up. The photo “Assimilation vs. Inclusivity” is a truly deep and meaningful piece of artwork that depicts the tragedy that the First Nations people have had to deal with for years, that still leave a mark on them today.
The Bento-Box project is an interesting way of having of having students express their learning throughout the book they read. The students must choose 5 different artifacts that correlate to the book and write multiple different types of paragraphs on different topics, relating to each object.
My Core Competency reflection:
Communication:
How did you work with others to develop ideas?
During this project I worked with others to develop my ideas in a few ways. During the beginning process of the project, my group ad I worked together to help one another think of objects. We all also offered to bring in objects that another in our group may have wanted and helped circulate general ideas around. As well as when I was in the final stages of finishing my projects, with the help of the others in my group I had some help of thinking of some connection ideas, as well as some help from my teacher Ms. Shong. I overall really enjoyed this project because it is different from any other project I have ever done before.
Critical & Creative Thinking:
What aspects of this activity were challenging?
The aspects of this challenge that I found the most difficult was definitely the word count and artifact ideas. By word count I mean the number of words required in each section, I found this particularly hard in the “Writer’s Style” section. I was trying my best to find different things about the writer’s style, but I kept coming up with the same things. After taking some time, it became easier for me to think of some ideas for the “Writer’s Style”. I was also having a bit of trouble coming up with my ideas for the different objects to put with the book. My group helped me think of a few, but I was having trouble thinking up the last two. However, it became much easier after looking through my writing. A good strategy that I found helped me, was when I couldn’t think of an object, to just write even without an object. That way, the object sort of just came to me after a while. There were few challenging parts to this project but the ones that were challenging I was able to solve with a bit of help from my peers, but mostly, I was able to resolve myself.
Here is my blackout poem on the Veldt. I used a book page to create this poem. I ‘found’ this poem on page 41 of the novel ‘Red Rising’.
Eyden Amram’s poem “Machine People” is a thematic exploration of Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt”. She portrayed a clear theme which was technology and alienation, more so how gravely technology has affected society and humans all together.In the line, “Emptiness life without freedom, emptiness living chained by fear” I felt that she was talking about how for the kids in “the Veldt”, technology and/or the nursery symbolized freedom and happiness but really it had a worse effect on them after all. More so how once the kids get their freedom with technology taken away it is like their life is over. She continues to personify this through her lines throughout the rest of the poem. She says, “break those chains of society, I’m slaved here.”Breaking down the underlying problem between the parents and the kids in “the Veldt”. They know they have a problem but it is like they’re stuck inthis cycle and it’s too late to break the long-lasting effects that will happen.She proceeds to write “The things you could do, you could make. You have been given so so much; you’re not living” which really touched on just how the kids weren’t living. They were empty and had no emotional regulation. They were so connected to their nursery and technology that the moment their parents, who had become mere irritations throughout their day, threatened to sever the emotional tie they had between them and this nursery, they snapped. They weren’t feeling and making emotional connections with people, which is why they relied so heavily on this nursery to make them happy, because they knew they couldn’t count on their own parents, which therefore made the nursery a kind of parental figure in their lives. She goes on to add, “we are machine minds, machine lives, machine hearts, what do I live for, I must live for more, in this world”. Throughout this line all I could think about was how obsessed the kids were with their material goods and always needed their technology to function like normal human beings. The kids were like machines, and at one point, so were the parents. The parents were evolved enough that they had started to realize their mistakes and the gravity of exposing their kids to technology so young would be. However the children weren’t old enough to be able to know by themselves, and that is where the parents let them down in a sense. Throughout her poem, Eyden Amram uses metaphor and repetition. When reading this poem, it was quite easy to visualize the different parts of her poem. It was clear that she had a good understanding of how technology has affected humans up to this point. I felt as if she was trying to communicate how technology has such a hold over us and how we might rely on it too much. As she said in the line “I’m slaved here”, we’re stuck in this cycle of reliance on technology and we’ve pushed it too far.
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For our Indigenous Explorations Podcast assignment, we chose Kamloops Indian Residential School. I worked with my friends Aj, and Andy on this school project.
Our podcast:
My experiences writing this project:
In this assignment, my group and I chose the Kamloops Indian Residential School. I personally loved this assignment for multiple reasons. It required a team which I really loved because I got to work with others, but I also loved getting a more unique project. It was so interesting learning about a specific school instead of all residential schools as a whole. I really enjoyed writing a script which I had never done before and getting more experience doing that. We all researched together so that we were on the same page and helped one another write notes. It was fun working with my friends on this project although I do think we should have tried to organize our time better because it took us longer than it should’ve to write our notes. That led to the chain reaction of us having to move a bit quicker through our script, but in the end, I was really proud of our finished product.
For the recording portion of this assignment, I felt for the most part it all went well. We had a quiet room for the first day and we got mostly everything done. However, there were some focus issues. We kept getting distracted by little things happening, but we got ourselves back on track fast and kept going till we got it done. All in all, I felt that this project and our progress towards the finished product was quite good, and I am very proud of how we worked.
How does your artifact tie in with what you have learned before? How has your thinking changed? What made it change?
I found that this assignment really helped me tie in all my learnings about First Nations Peoples and Residential Schools. Having learned about these things in the past benefited me so much in this project because I had a really good base understanding to build up from. Knowing the general idea of what was going in Residential Schools and having already heard things about this school in particular, for example the 215 graves, etc. I had such a good starting point to help my group. During the process of this project, I found my thinking changing consistently. On a deeper level I found myself understanding the things I had been learning about for years. The cycle of abuse and intergenerational trauma and the long-lasting effects Residential Schools had and have on it’s victims. I was thinking more about and looking at the effects Residential Schools had after they were over. Looking at the suicide rates, and the poverty rates for Indigenous Peoples, really upset me in particular. The effects of these Residential Schools last for a lifetime, and I think that is what this project helped me to think about the most.
Wikipedia contributors. (2022b, October 16). Canadian Indian residential school system. Wikipedia. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from Canadian Indian residential school system.
Wikipedia contributors. (2022a, September 20). Kamloops. Wikipedia. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from Kamloops
Gale – Institution Finder. (n.d.). Retrieved October 20, 2022, from https://galeapps.gale.com/apps/auth?userGroupName=&origURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.gale.com%2Fps%2FtermCluster%3FinPS%3Dtrue&prodId=GVRLTerm Clusters – Gale Power Search
