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Using our scarce time to finish trails efficiently and effectively
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i spent four hours and created the worksheet SDGs. i wanted to prove that it was possible to cover all the SDGs with multiple appealing facts within four hours. So you really do not have to spend five hours finding a fact for just one SDG. If you have a good source or multiple good sources then these facts just appear. The first source i started to analyze was from tanbir and that source was part of a bigger source that covered all the SDGs. In Nextcloud, there is the folder Statistics where you can find some sources and a lot of data for backing up the facts. The data is mostly about Estonia. i also left some sources that i found good. One source is there because it is about Bangladesh and as one member is from Bangladesh then it should be there although the content is very boring. i also left statistics about accessing sanitation facilities in schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan for the same reason although this time the facts are very appealing. There are also some other intriguing facts from elsewhere, for instance, that by 2050, there would be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Mostly, my facts are based on Estonia as this way, the connection is the strongest. People do not tend to care what is going on globally but once it touches their home they feel touched. i have marked one fact per SDG green because, in my opinion, that fact is the most appealing one. Multiple SDGs can also be connected to a single task.
i give you an example. There is SDG 2 on zero hunger. I turns out that there is no hunger in Estonia. At the same time, more than half of Estonian people are overweight. Solving that overweight issue could help with better food distribution as there are other regions in the world like Yemen where is hunger present. Moreover, being overweight makes people prone to diseases. That connects to SDG 3 on good health and well-being. It turns out that people in Estonia only live about 60 years healthy whereas the same number for Norway is 80. So people get sick sooner. If they would not overweight, they would have better health. There are recreational facilities close to the seashore: for instance a path for Nordic walking. you can figure out what is the average speed for a Nordic walker, measure the path length and let players calculate the time spent on Nordic walking throughout the path. you could also figure out what the life expectancy in Estonia is and compare that path to a longer length in order to show how far would Nordic walkers reach healthy. Or you could connect a parking lot to that task and let them calculate how many minutes out of free parking time could they park so to speak healthy and how much time would they be sick-parking. And eventually, you should also connect your study field.
So what to do:
- Go through the whole list of SDGs and for each SDG mark a fact that seems appealing to you with your own color. Later when we meet we can discuss which one(s) remain(s). you can also add your own facts in a separate row.
- For each fact that you find appealing write into the column Studied what thing have you studied in one of your university courses regarding that SDG / fact/method and write down the code of that course in a separate column so that we all can follow.
- For each chosen fact, write into the column Object what real-world object or what type of object would you connect to that fact in order to visualize the fact mathematically! you do not have to go outside for that, just imagine this time! you would find these objects later.
- Write a story into Wiki that connects all the SDGs in a suitable order on a separate page!
This way we would achieve a nice story that could serve as a base for our trails within a day in an efficient way. Then we decide what created tasks we can connect to the story, maybe we would have many stories, and what tasks need to be created from scratch. This way we would also end up with tasks with a familiar structure that would offer a clear understanding of how to play the trial and what is its purpose. It should be really appealing for players to learn about SDGs through playing such a trial. What also popped into my mind is that a part of the math that is used already should not be used for another task. That way we could make the trails more varied and therefore more interesting. For instance, if there is a percentage calculation in use then it should also be reused if the calculation should take place in another way. For instance: how many percent is five out of ten vs how much is 50 % out of then? But the math part follows a nice and neat story. You could have a story per sub-group of an individual story so that we can compare and take the best of stories. So this is my vision of how we could achieve nice learning trails within March so that by the end of March, the trails are done and ready for testing. If this method really works then we set it into power as the most efficient path creation method invented so far.
Kindly find your four or another amount of hours efficient time and create your appealing story so that during our next revision we could read them and choose the best parts of them. i guess it is reasonable that you all would do it until the fifth of March. we also want to prepare for our mid-term reports.
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As you are now 3 + 3 = 6 participants you remain in two groups until the end of alpha testing which precedes uniting both groups into one.
i have prepared an example story in OSF called Example trail. Find it in the Wiki and read it through! This is my imagination of how a story connecting several SDGs and tasks should look like. A fluent text one piece leading to another involving the description of the SDG, the current situation, and eventually a measurable goal, and an illustration of it using math and an object in the real world. Of course, the study field should also be connected. Look how i connected two SDGs into one task in the first and third paragraphs! i have also prepared a list of different math topics in ruum4.xlsx as a new worksheet Math. Be creative and involve a separate subject in math for each math part! Not just some random numbers but logically connected operations are helping to visualize the fact of SDG. i expect to see your stories on Sunday (or whenever you want to have our next revision if you belong in nelJapäevalised) so we can further refine them and fill in the eventually missing gaps. Feel free to use my list of facts if you do not have something appealing on a particular SDG!