Habits of Mind

Purposeful communication 

Purposeful communication is any form of media that sends a message to others. The message can be about your ideas, beliefs, values, and so forth. Connect your message to others that have different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. 

For our project, we communicated with each other about what we decided to do. We had a meeting at least every Thursday to talk about what we are going to do for the project. We decided on making an Instagram account to post political topics. We decided to do multiple political topics and made sure to do the basic information about it and different opinions.

Problem solving

Solving a problem is the same way. Problem solving is forming or thinking of solutions that are well thought out. Be creative with your solution. Have a solution that is adaptable because sometimes things don’t go as well as you thought it was going to. Know about the other things that cause that problem. Know about how the solution can cause other problems.

As said earlier, we had a meeting at least every Thursday to talk about what we are going to do and what we have done. If there was a problem, we would discuss what we would do. We let each other go over

Integrated perspective 

Integrated perspective is knowing that your perspective isn’t the same as others. Your decisions affect other people, situations, and the environment. Communicating with others and learning from others about their personal experiences is important.

For our project, we didn’t focus on just one side of a certain topic. Some of the posts had basic information about a certain topic without any opinions. The other posts had both sides. We did that by having the pros and cons of a certain topic.

Self-regulating learning

Self-regulating learning is knowing what you need to become a better learner. You think for yourself and think things through. You also know that there is more than one way to think. It is important to know and learn that you can fix your mistakes.

For our project, everyone had a job to do each week. If someone didn’t do what they were assigned, everything gets held back. Someone did the weekly update, did research on a certain topic, created a post from the research, worked on the Instagram account, worked on the website, or try to get other people to engage with the Instagram account.