We have all been there. Early days of a new module or class and the lecturer stands in front of the room with a wry smile introducing how the module will be assessed, a group project.
For many students, we have all heard the scary tales of group work which can scale from lazy teammates, late nights or long cramming to make up for undone work. However, as week 5 closes on me. I have not found this with my LULITMI Group.
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LULITMI is a project introduced for our Public Admin module. The idea is fun. A country somewhere has just awoken mysteriously and we, the people (the students of the class), are tasked in making policies that many countries try to implement to solve issues. Our group was designated in finding solutions to youth offending.
Our group was quite effective in working together, we met up every week and divided work equally. And guess what guys? We all did our work on time. Shocked. I know.
This Thursday past, we had to have a poster presentation. Our poster was very bold, we had an eye-grabbing poster which aimed to sell our ideas of inviting conversation around juvenile justice. The experience was really fascinating! It is intimidating to stand around your ideas and have people willingly come up and challenge or engage with those ideas. The feedback we received was a mix but overall positive.
I think some group projects get a bad reputation, I have been part of groups that have been slow, but this wasn’t one of them and that was great!
Have you any dreadful or great group projects. Leave a comment and let me know, let’s see the horror stories.
Caleb
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