Author: dinsd61619@gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg
CAS Reflection: 9/10/2020
Throughout this first term of school, I have experienced lots of amazing events and learnt a lot about what I will have to do in the future to achieve my goals. I took part in the Student Voice community for my grade, The MINDS local service, Culturama and Highlevel Contemporary dance to start of my […]
Pre CAS Reflection
Starting Grade 11, the beginning of my IB I am so excited to learn new things and take part in the school’s activities, shows and services. As I started my UWC journey in Grade 6, I am already familiar with most of the curricular activities, and am grateful to continue some of them, but also […]
Does it matter that your personal circumstances influence how seriously your knowledge is taken?
Object: Painting I chose this aboriginal painting from Australia that sits next to my front door. It conveys the story of The Pleiades or also known as The Seven Sisters. This story is about Seven Sisters who would share their food and gatherings with passing but soon realized that they wanted more just the food and […]
How does the interplay of written & visual text affect our response / interpretation?
Considering the Audience, Purpose and Perspective. How does the intertextual nature of the text create a completely different impact? Does this text have anything to say about identity? The interplay of written & visual text is very impactful to the audience’s response towards the ad. The use of text can change the visual and textual […]
Does it matter that your personal circumstance influence how seriously your knowledge is taken?
Does it matter that your personal circumstance influence how seriously your knowledge is taken? The personal circumstance of a Biologist or a sculpture may tend to impact the significance of how seriously their knowledge is taken in the view of others. For instance, the value of someone who experts in human science are strong in […]
Jack And The Bean Stalk: Fractured Fairy Tale
Day in and day out I think about the young love I once enjoyed. The love of my life, now my husband and I would dream of a humble home under a gleaming sky that we would share with a family and a happy future, but I come to my senses quickly. In a neighbourhood […]
How do YOU distinguish between knowledge, belief and opinion?
Conceptual Understandings: write a statement that describes/explains either belief or opinion. Belief is the state of mind of trust, faith and acceptance of something that doesn’t always have hard evidence. I think that the concept of Belief is the ability to have absolute faith in their opinion. It can be a mental or physical […]
“You didn’t make good choices. You had good choices.”
Little Fires Everywhere: Elena is a rich, white very privileged person and has been surrounded by these type of people probably her whole like. And there are people like her, who live in a neighbourhood where ‘all people are welcome’ and ‘they don’t see colour, where all people’. This is the mindset we want the […]
Fusion
I created a trysquare on fusion to learn and practise new skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJgbrVYH8gw&t=78s