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DKs Exhibition Reflection

March 8th 2011

I have been working with Tara and Rena in last few days and we are interested in a

topic about child labor in Thailand .Our group has been working on getting the main

questions and researching them. We learned that Thailand had one of the worst

forms of child labor in 2001. We also learned that the child labor is improving

because of the economical increase. We have to interview more people and we

have to get different perspectives from the people. We also have to find a spot with

people who are forced to work. I was being an inquirer because I was researching

and I was making questions for the interview. My perspective changed looking at

child labor because first I saw them but I didnt see many so I didnt think that it

was a problem but when I was looking well I saw a lot of children working and I

think I took this problem more seriously and I feel kind of sad for them.

So your awareness and thinking about child labour is already changing. Excellent.

March 15thI had been working with Rena and Tara on Child labor and recently interviewed 2people out on the street working and then got their perspective. I think myperspective is starting to change because when I went out to interview children

outside, since we were focusing on the Child Workers we saw a lot of them and itfelt more serious. I gained knowledge that under 15 child labor is illegal. I found itchallenging to find people on the street who can speak Thai fluently because 60%ofchild labor in Thailand is Burmese. Interesting.Do you know why? Also we couldntfind a lot of people to interview outside so that was kind of frustrating. We will go tointerview Mr. Michael and Mrs. Jane and we now have to think how we will presentthe exhibition like music or drama. My responsibility was to research and help thinkof a presentation way recently. We made a decision that we need to have apresentation style chosen this week. My goals were to get all those researching andinterviewing done. There were some problems finding who to interview so weneeded to ask the teachers for some contacts. I think I was an inquirer because I

was researching and thinking of questions I was interested and curious about.

It sounds like your group is learning a lot and making progress. Keep up the good

work.

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24 March 2011

This is DK and my group works on child labor and they are Rena and Tara. We are mainly focusing on

presentation this week. Our group has been making one boy and one girl which is made out card

board. The girl is going to have news articles about child labor on it. The boy right now has blue shirt

at the front and green shirt at the back and we put some countries which have child labour. We arealso going to put some messages on the boy sculpture about how they feel. We also made a wheel

to spin which I painted and for the presentation about the wheel there is 8 main questions and if a

person gets it right they get a candy for the prize. I think our group should be ready to finish the

sculptures soon like next week Monday so that we can have time to think about what we are going

to say out on Wednesday.

1 April 2011

My name is DK and my group works on child labour. I would say that our display and presentation in last

2 days were successful because we had a lot of customers and people were interested in our work. We

made a cardboard girl and a boy which had most of our information in it but we remembered what we

needed to say and were quite confident. We used no technology and we had a lot of audience. We sold

some t-shirts which was also successful because we sold all of them and we earned money we can

donate to the I am child organization. You guys accomplished a lot!

By doing this exhibition I learned that interviewing primary resources are the best to get information.

The internet has some fake information and it might not be true but most of the interviews people tell

what they really think. But in some case they dont tell the truth like we interviewed two girls out on the

street and they said they work until 5pm but actually they work until 9pm. Also I learned that the way

you present is really important. If we got all the good information and our presentation is not good then

people will not be interested. Very true! Good point. A good presentation has a persons enthusiasm

and it has to be clear simple and to the point. Our way was quite unique with no computers so people

were interested and it is actually really hard without technology to get them interested. In our station

another way I learned is that we need to have a person in the booth. If we dont people might be

interested but they wont go to our station because we might have no person in a booth. And another

way is try to get the people to change their perspective and we changed other peoples perspective

because they actually donated some money that we can help more children get out of labour. The last

way is that you have to be organized because when you are not organized you will not be able to

present well and you will be mumbling. Yes. In this exhibition I got more confident and now I speak

more clear and simple. I did it because from year 5 I wasnt confident in presentation like the one in In

plain English only Michael spoke. I learned that presenting can be fun and when you are excited the

audience is excited too because you become enthusiastic when you are happy. Way to go!!! I also

learned that primary resource is better than secondary resource because I only used internet and

websites to get my information but actually interviewing an interviewee is better than internet because

they are more accurate and probably we will get information we cant get from internet. Also

sometimes in internet you cant find the one you actually want and you need to waste time trying to

find the same information for one question. Yes, if you can interview experts in the field you can learn

so much from them. You should remember that for future projects.

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I liked this exhibition because it gave me a lot of lessons and it was actually normal to work with girls

and boys and girls have different point of view so we got more information and more perspectives.

Excellent! The process of the exhibition is to find what youre interested in and dont try to be with your

best friend because you might not act serious and it is a serious thing you have to do. Then it was the

inquiring part where you have to interview and research a lot. Then it was the presenting part which was

also important because if we have all the good information and then we present it in a really boring and

a bad way then people will not think that you did a good job and that you were acting silly but when you

do it clear, simple and to the point it will be interesting for the audience and also better for you because

when the audience is happy with your presentation then you will be happy too because they are

thinking that you did a great job. We were successful and our group did a great job so I am satisfied with

myself that I learned a lot and I was successful in the yr6 exhibition.

Im glad you learned so much from the Exhibition process, DK. You stayed focused and were helpful to

your group. Nice work!!