Free Your Mind: The Ultimate Esacpe RoomFor the Humanities portion of the Free Your Mind: The Ultimate Escape Room project we focused on breaking free of psychic prisons and implicit bias. Our main esstential question was "How can people recognize and escape individual and societal psychic prisons to experience an exceptional quality of life?" Researching age, gender, sexuality, and race through other countries really helped to convey other perspectives. Overall we were taught how to break free of psychic prisons and implict bias that confind us using compassion, empathy, and the truth.
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Implicit Bias
An implicit bias is a bias a person has unconsciously. To recognize implicit bias' you can take online tests. Most implicit bias' are not a good traits, but can be fixed when you recognize implicit bias' that are active in your life. The two implicit bias my group and I focus on in our escape room was gender and age. The implicit bias we focused on for our art/writing pieces was age. Overall we learned about a lot of implicit bias' that are active in our society and within our own minds. As well as how to break free of the implicit bias' we carry with us.
The Ageism video is a short video that symbolizes how age does not define a person. To watch the video click the button above.
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The Implicit - Escape Room is a video that explains how implicit bias is represent in our escape room. To watch the video click the link above.
This persuasive essay it convincing myself out of one of my psychic prisons. To read my essay click the button above.
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What Did You Learn? - Reflection
For the what did you learn reflection we took two pieces of colored paper and created a writing and art piece. The writing and art pieces had to symbolize one thing you learned during the Free Your Mind: The Ultimate Escape Room Project. This reflection was fully open and gave all the students their own options.
For my writing piece of the reflection I decided to use the Albert Einstein quote "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them." To me this overall shows that you have to see a problem through multiple perspectives to find a solution. This also can mean that there are multiple solutions to one problem, not one way is right.
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What do you see? A tree? A bird? My drawing represents that things can be seen differently and everyone has a different prespective. When I showed my drawing to other people I asked "What do you see?" Half the people I asked said tree and the other half said bird. Overall my drawing is a symbolic representation of prespectives.
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Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Kaffir Boy is an autobiography about a black kid named Johannes/Mark who lived in Africa when Apartheid was still legal. Each week for homework we read multiple chapters in the book and did two quote - comment - question (Q.C.Q). To read my journals click the button below.
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