Week 2

27/04/21  

🕐 Activities 🕐

Ideation

Lit Review

Available Resources

Guides to Accessing Library Resources

Evaluating Research

A week of brain storming. This week Dr Noel started the lesson with a game that helped us our thinking caps on. We were required to use our imagination to think of possible objects that a maker could be. This game evoked our creative ideas and helped us ponder a little on the possible chemical devices we were going to produce

-----------------------------------------🧠🧠🧠 Brain Storm 🧠🧠🧠 ---------------------------------------

Here is a short mind-map of ideas that we brain stormed on.👀😝😎

After which we listed and sorted our ideas into the different categories a seen down below in the table.

Classifications	Ideas	Remarks
Environment	Waste heat from refrigerator and air conditioner Water filter Separate carbon monoxide Reuse carbon dioxide
Food	Ice cream doesn’t melt  Reusable ice Edible plastic water
Clothing	Cloth that anti-stain Cooling ,easy dry and waterproof shoe Thin and efficient mask
Accessories	Phone and laptop’s battery that no need charge Umbrella Hand sanitiser that doesn’t dry your hand Auto-heater Odourless paint

We came up with so many ideas but unfortunately, most of them had to be eliminated. dun dun dunn 😞😭😰. However that's all part of the learning process. 

We also ran into some issues trying to define what products fit a ''chemical device". We had to keep reminding ourselves that it had to follow the engineering principles and on top of that we were too focused on the product and not the problem. However after all of that ,we finally got the memo and were able to complete our task. 

--------------------------------------------☁☁☁☁ Problem Statement ☁☁☁☁----------------------------------

Here is our problem statement : I need a way to cook without electricity and fire when I am in the woods.

After all of our ideation, we finally came to Literature Review!

-------------------------------------------🔥🔥🔥🔥 Lit Review 🔥🔥🔥🔥 ----------------------------------------

Why is it important to carry out a literature review?

• Determine what is already researched, and known about the topic and how much has the topic been researched

• Identify the expertises who research and are knowledgeable on the topic

• Identify key questions that require much further research. As they are still researching a new topic.

• It helps steer clear of accidental plagiarism

Here is a summary of what is lit review in three points

• Survey of the books/articles that addresses the important concepts and theories relevant to our research

• It examines the source that are relevant to our research topics 

• It performs a deep analysis of the sources by identifying gaps in the present knowledge. Displaying all the limitations and forming areas that require further research. 

Some of the type of resources that are available

• Internet search engines

• Books

• Peer-reviewed journals

• Educational video databases

• Past year FYP reports

• Subject-matter experts

However, It is compulsory for us to have at least 3 peer-reviewed journals as a requirement.

The 5 main Attributes of good literature review

• Sources must be relevant and reliable

• Possess a strong foundations for our topic

• It should be narrow enough to abolish irrelevant information

• Broad enough to cover information that is required 

• Have a balance between sources that are for and against the issue

-----------------------------🧻🧻🧻🧻Evaluating our research🧻🧻🧻🧻----------------------------

Applying Meta-cognition Model of Thinking when evaluating our sources.

• Analysis

• Comparison & Contrast 

• Inference & Interpretation

• Generating Possibilities 

• Evaluation

---------------------------------------------------💡Group Reflection 💡-------------------------------------------------

This week we learnt about Ideation and Literature Review! We got to know what is a lit review and the importance of doing a lit review. With our Lit review we are able to filter out the many sources we have found and make sure they are relevant and reliable. It also helps us steer away from plagiarism. In the following week we will apply the scamper method to manipulate and further filter out our ideas.

We also learnt the Scamper!! A method that would help us manipulate our ideas and cut down on down on them at the same time. Hence giving us more concise ideas.

S = Substitute

C = Combine

A = Adapt

M = Modify

P = Put to another use 

E = Eliminate

R= Reverse