Maria Mendoza reflects on how participating in a school project on cellphone use changed her perspective. She initially did not see the value of the project but through research came to understand how cellphones could help students. The project provided evidence that changed her view and allowed her to explain the benefits of cellphones to others. She believes the new G2 program will help students accomplish even more in the future.

1. Unfocused to focused Maria Mendoza

2. Inquiry I had to ask myself what answer do I really need in order to do this project correctly. Like with the cellphone project I had to do research on accessing blocked or inappropriate material since I had no prior knowledge of that subject

3. Significance The cellphone project defined what we were doing in school, being that this is the first year G2 was in progress.

4. Perspective Before we did this project I really didn’t see reason why we were even asking to use cellphones in school. This project changed my perspective on cellphones in school and how they’d be helpful.

5. Evidence When we started doing the cellphone projects I really didn’t believe in it until I learned more about how it could help students I needed evidence myself in understanding this but whence I got it, it was a simple matter of re-explaining it in different words.

6. Connection The gameboard for example, I never really did know a reason in how you could connect two entirely different topics such as science and math.

7. Supposition I predict that in near time we will be able to accomplish even more in G2!

8. Conclusion I learned many things from this new program, in so that I couldn’t possibly name just 3 things that I have achieved in learning.