Project Management and Independence

Question EPQ

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    Summary

    In this informative session led by Peter Flynn, students delve into the expectations and responsibilities tied to the EPQ (Extended Project Qualification). Emphasizing independence, the project requires students to manage their time and resources skillfully, keeping a detailed production log and research diary. Supervisors serve as project managers, steering students towards effective timekeeping and research utilization, while the ultimate aim is to foster intellectual excitement in the school through presentations and discussions. This process is designed to better prepare students for university-level writing and research.

      Highlights

      • Peter Flynn stresses the importance of independence in the EPQ. ✨
      • Supervisors guide project management, not the academic content. πŸ’Ό
      • Students are encouraged to keep a production log and research diary. πŸ““
      • Choosing a topic you're passionate about is key. πŸ”‘
      • The EPQ presentation could be a major school event. πŸŽ₯
      • Emphasis on developing research skills for university success. 🌟

      Key Takeaways

      • The EPQ promotes independence, emphasizing self-management and initiative. 🧐
      • Supervisors are project managers, not content experts. They're there to guide, not do the work for you. πŸš€
      • A detailed production log and research diary are crucial for success. πŸ“š
      • Excitement and interest in your chosen topic lead to a more enjoyable EPQ experience. πŸŽ‰
      • The project culminates in a presentation, aiming to make it a big school event. πŸ“’
      • Good research skills developed here will advantage students at university. πŸŽ“

      Overview

      In this engaging lecture, Peter Flynn outlines the framework and expectations surrounding the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), focusing on the development of independence among students. He emphasizes that supervisors act as project managers guiding students in time management and research strategies, rather than dictating academic content.

        The highlight of the EPQ is the opportunity for students to dive deeply into topics they are passionate about, offering them a break from the rigid school curriculum. Flynn underscores the crucial role of maintaining a detailed production log and research diaryβ€”essential tools that track project progress and personal reflections.

          The EPQ journey culminates in a public presentation meant to incite intellectual excitement within the school. By demanding initiative and independent thought, the EPQ not only prepares students for the academic rigors of university but also encourages them to explore and present their interests with confidence and clarity.

            Chapters

            • 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction and Overview of EPQ The chapter introduces the EPQ (Extended Project Qualification) and begins with a greeting to the participants for choosing the EPQ. It mentions an aside regarding prefect applications, indicating that successful applicants will have their names listed around the sixth form. Those who don't see their names are encouraged to speak with Mr. MacLean about other roles. The content then shifts to the role of the supervisor in the EPQ process, suggesting a presentation or visual aid is being used to discuss this topic.
            • 01:00 - 02:30: Role of the Supervisor The chapter titled 'Role of the Supervisor' emphasizes the importance of understanding the responsibility of supervisors in the academic setting. It reiterates that it is the responsibility of the student to regularly contact their supervisor to schedule meetings. The supervisor will provide guidance and support throughout the academic journey. Students are encouraged to reach out and maintain communication with their supervisors to ensure they are receiving the help they need. Additionally, the chapter mentions that students will be shown a spreadsheet detailing all available supervisors, and they will have the opportunity to discuss and possibly change their supervisor if needed.
            • 02:30 - 05:00: Independence in the EPQ This chapter emphasizes the role of a supervisor in the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). It clarifies that the supervisor is not meant to be an academic mentor in specific subject matters like string theory or quantum mechanics. Instead, their role is akin to a project manager, focusing on ensuring that students adhere to deadlines and remain on track with their projects. They offer support in organizing aspects of writing and presentation, while the students maintain ownership and independence over their academic journey.
            • 05:00 - 09:00: Choosing a Title In this chapter, the focus is on the importance of choosing an independent research title for an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). It stresses the need for students to take the initiative and conduct their research, especially in complex topics such as nanotechnology, where teachers might not have the expertise or time to assist in detail. The emphasis is on fostering students' independence in choosing and working on their EPQ topics.
            • 09:00 - 12:00: Project Proposal and Production Log The chapter titled 'Project Proposal and Production Log' discusses the initial stages of project planning. The importance of choosing an appropriate title is emphasized, with advisors on hand to assist with project management and timekeeping aspects. The chapter highlights the significance of utilizing proper resources and engaging in thorough research. The upcoming lesson with a former librarian, Francesco, will focus on using databases effectively, underscoring the necessity of in-depth research beyond simple internet searches.
            • 12:00 - 15:30: Self-Assessment and AO Criteria This chapter covers the use of Google Scholar and various research databases. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining a production blog and a research diary, which should include emotional and intellectual reflections with dates. Supervisors are available to assist and provide advice on presentations.
            • 15:30 - 22:00: Importance of a Good Research Question This chapter discusses the significance of developing a strong research question. It emphasizes the potential of the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) to invigorate intellectual excitement within a school setting. The speaker intends to elevate the final presentation of the research project to a major event, involving journalists, parents, and members from other schools. The aim is to inspire younger students by having older students deliver lectures and motivate a more engaging, dynamic approach to learning, in contrast to the often monotonous traditional curriculum.
            • 22:00 - 26:00: Evaluation and Analysis Skills The chapter focuses on evaluation and analysis skills, emphasizing the student's choice in how to approach their project. The role of supervisors is highlighted in reviewing drafts and providing feedback. The process includes final grading by the EPQ coordinator. Successful projects are rewarded with high marks.
            • 26:00 - 28:30: Exposition vs. Analysis The chapter discusses the Educational Project Qualification (EPQ), highlighting its value compared to an AS level. It emphasizes the goal for students to achieve at least an A grade. Additionally, the chapter underscores the importance of having a technical mentor, especially in specialized fields such as string theory and mathematical optics.
            • 28:30 - 30:00: Bloom's Taxonomy and Higher Order Thinking Skills The chapter discusses the importance of independence in undertaking an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) and highlights how reliance on supervisors for basic tasks may not align with the EPQ's objectives. Participants are expected to independently source resources and decide remarkably on their projects without external planning assistance. The emphasis is on building self-reliance, aligning with Bloom's Taxonomy and higher-order thinking skills where individuals must engage in deeper cognitive processing beyond reliance on direct guidance. The school implements this approach to encourage students' capability in managing more autonomous academic tasks.
            • 30:00 - 31:30: Conclusion and Final Thoughts The chapter discusses the qualities of being an independent worker, particularly in the context of a specific project or qualification known as EPQ. It stresses the importance of demonstrating initiative and independent work. The speaker mentions the production process and directs students to review certain resources available on the s drive. The chapter concludes with a reminder that additional guidance will be provided at the end of the lesson.

            Question EPQ Transcription

            • 00:00 - 00:30 okay good morning everybody thank you for choosing the EPQ firstly i'm going to do that however as mr. MacLean wanted me to say that for prefex have been a lot of prefect applications it will be lists around the sixth form of everyone who was successful if you don't see your name can you see him because he wants to talk to you about other roles okay now first of all I wanted to start off by going through the role of the supervisor everyone see that screen so you could turn one of the lights off because it looks so bright there now I'll just want
            • 00:30 - 01:00 to get this absolutely straight with everybody what the role of the supervisor is okay and this is something that I've said to you in previous meetings but the supervisor is going to meet with you quite regularly that's up to you now to contact your supervisor I've worked out on a spreadsheet all the supervisor so at the end of this lesson I'm going to show you that spreadsheet and we'll talk about your supervisor one or two people might want to change their supervisor because I know that some of the supervisors have looked at the list
            • 01:00 - 01:30 and they've thought to themselves I'm better in that area but the key thing is this your supervisor is not your academic supervisor they're not there to tell you about string theory or quantum mechanics they are your project manager they're there to see that you are on course and that you know what you're doing and that you are respecting deadlines they'll help you with some aspects of the writing and they'll help you with the presentation but of course
            • 01:30 - 02:00 they can't help you with all of the academic things we are going to have things as technical as nanotechnology now and we will not have teachers you have the time to go away and research in depth nanotechnology so I just want to make that clear they cannot do the work for you the whole idea of the EPQ is that you're demonstrating independence okay the first thing that we're going to do is you're going to today we're going to talk about your title so we're going
            • 02:00 - 02:30 to be looking at this idea here of helping arrive at your title they can advise you on the actual project management of it and timekeeping they're going to give you advice on resources and research and in fact our next lesson will be with the former librarian Francesco whose surname ikot remember and she'll be talking about how to use databases because it's absolutely key realize you can't just go on google this time it going to be having to look at very complicated you know proper research so
            • 02:30 - 03:00 i'll be teaching you how to use google scholar i'll be teaching you how to look at different research databases you will have to fill in a production blog as you go and you also need to keep a research diary as you go that gives reflections emotional and intellectual reflections with dates so literally think about it as keeping a diary okay obviously the and supervisors there to help you with that and they can advise you on your presentation for me this is the most
            • 03:00 - 03:30 exciting bit when you've finished it all you give a presentation to the public I intend to make it a big deal like it used to be in my law school I want journalists in I want parent Center want people from other schools I want to film some of them I want some of you talking and giving lectures at lunchtime to younger people I want to use the EPQ to generate a lot of intellectual excitement in the school I hope you guys are all excited because if we're honest the curriculum quite often is quite boring for you because there isn't much
            • 03:30 - 04:00 choice this time you've got a choice to do exactly what you want and to do it in the way that you want as well and the supervisor is going to mark one draft guys and give you some feedback in whatever way that is and then they mark the project and they parade it and of course i am the EPQ coordinator for the school so i give the final grade on that okay now as you know if you score an a
            • 04:00 - 04:30 star on it the EPQ is worth more than an AS level however obviously it depends very much on the grade that you will see we're going to aim for everybody to be at least an A in the school now the final thing is I'm talking about a technical mentor and this is very very important if you are in a very obscure area I've had people who have done a string theory des cartes mathematical optical
            • 04:30 - 05:00 mathy Ariz such I have no idea about any of it all right it's going to be up to you to source somebody we will try and help you but remember the EPQ is about you being independent okay your supervisors aren't there to chase you they aren't there to get the resources for you they're not there to do a big plan for you if you if you need a lot of help and support you're the wrong person for the EPQ okay remember you're demonstrating independence in fact what we've decided in the school now is on
            • 05:00 - 05:30 your UK references we will only put that you're an independent worker if you're doing the EPQ because quite often teachers say are there an independent worker are you really this demonstrates independent work this is you going off and showing initiative okay right moving on then the production love have any of you looked at the production rope yet okay so that is on the s drive and at the end of the lesson I will show you it
            • 05:30 - 06:00 is very important I want to make thick one thing clear now if you keep the production log on the school network in word that is the best way of doing things okay so please after this lesson the first thing you're going to do is you will download the production log you will keep it in word and you'll keep it under school network please don't leave it on a pendrive why not I'm an external drive why do you think yeah gets lost also I would like you if possible to
            • 06:00 - 06:30 save it on one drive share it with me and share it with your supervisor because then we can all work on it we know it's then we know that it's up to date in addition to that I've said keep a research diary get a nice hardback book and every week write down where you are I'm at this point in my EP q I'm experiencing frustration I'm beginning to realize I might need to change my title that's something I'm going to talk to you about today a lot because you're allowed to change on the EPQ throughout
            • 06:30 - 07:00 until Christmastime okay the production log isn't just a piece of paper it is absolutely key to the grading of the whole project so I want you to think of the production log is as important as the actual project in writing itself and that is because i'm just going to shoot through to some later ones over here i put this in the wrong order ready well then if we look at the assessment criteria could you find switch off on
            • 07:00 - 07:30 the other line maybe it just seems really bad project isn't anybody know what we can do is made better better image I don't know if you actually look at the assessment guys you'll see over here develop and realize a 03 is worth 40 marks and review is worth 20 months and those two will actually come from the production lock so keeping an excellent production log is as important
            • 07:30 - 08:00 as doing a wonderful project okay I'm just going to go back and and I've hammered on about this quite a lot but I think it is really important that the EPQ is a privilege not arrived it was a it was a project that was designed for the best the brightest the most motivated students yeah so I do need you to know that if you fall behind in your work I will have to write your parents and say sorry they're behind in their work and then the next time you'll be taken off the course okay don't mean
            • 08:00 - 08:30 that is a horrible threat etc it is just a lot of work and if you're in year 12 doing for a s levels and then you're doing a key player going to be aware that that is a tough schedule if you're in 13 in your 13 we want you to finish the project before februari I've said this before but once you ought to understand that a s levels and a 2 levels are much more important than the EPQ DBQ is the decoration the icing at the end of the day bad day s is a day
            • 08:30 - 09:00 tues with a good epq it's still a bad qualification okay right so study what you enjoy this is the most important thing in terms of choosing your title if you choose an area that you're really interested in you can enjoy it so a lot of you are choosing your area that's the first thing would you turn to the person next to you tell you why you've chosen the area that you have okay have a quick chat I just heard
            • 09:00 - 09:30 about that you thought sounded really interesting Josh what did you hear about okay he's d nanotechnology he's the infamously difficult one any other strange ones that you came across i mean the wonderful thing is you really can choose anything you like you can if you like research 1920s hungarian of communist propaganda films you really have no limits however you need to think
            • 09:30 - 10:00 yourself are you particularly interested in these areas because you're going to be doing a lot of reading into them so do you choose something that is absolutely fascinating I was quite surprised at how few people are doing an artifact don't forget that you can make something and then write a research project to support it ok so key thing for choosing at the title now is think
            • 10:00 - 10:30 yourself is this what I want to spend hours and hours reading them and writing on and thinking about that would be the absolute most important thing don't do something just because you think it's going to be good for your degree choose something that you're really going to enjoy it and then it won't be a task it won't be labor okay so this is what you need to do by the end of the project you need to obviously submit a project proposal you need to complete a
            • 10:30 - 11:00 production log you need to plan research carry out a project you need to keep notes as you're going I'm going to teach you how to do Cornell notes I'm going to teach you how to use software that helps you was referencing and you're gonna have to provide your big long five thousand words written report and you get to have to have some appendices you're going to have to have a really good bibliography you can have to use academic footnoting all of those things will put you so far ahead of other
            • 11:00 - 11:30 people versity there's one reason why I be is a hell of a lot better for university of the NATO and it's because of the extended essay students who do I be have to do a five thousand word research piece okay you are doing that by doing the EPQ when you go to university I promise you you will be streets ahead of people who have not done it at the end of it like I said you're going to give your presentation to the general public and finally you'll write a reflection in
            • 11:30 - 12:00 a review in which you critique yourself and say where you think you what you've learned what you could have done better you know hindsight is a wonderful thing when we finish things we always are able to have done better yes I would always do double spacing to be honest with you for every subject at a level I actually love it when students do double spacing with wide margins it allows you to give feedback doesn't it yet so definitely
            • 12:00 - 12:30 that's a good question i would definitely do that for the draft yeah now people give all sorts of different feedback I'm not really a great believer in laughs in marketing if you're in my classes you know I'd much rather sit down with you go through your essay and talk and highlight as we go and all right so you're going to need to research deeply you're going to be immerse to the subject you need to read rounder as much as possible the diary I've spoken about and you need to show
            • 12:30 - 13:00 initiative and independent thought okay first of all for the title is the best to have a question or tight well this lesson is primarily aimed at those students who complete in the 5,000 word essay do we have anyone here doing an artifact neck like a good and if you're creating an artifact then you do need to do a piece of writing and I know that there are three people in the other class will be doing that okay if you're writing an essay at the end of this
            • 13:00 - 13:30 lesson you usually go away you need to do the first part of the form which is the proposal part a you're then going to take your question to your supervisor if you're not happy with your question at the moment completely relax because we don't have to set the question but just make sure that you know what topic that you're going to be doing so what makes a good question guys I'd say this is perhaps the most important thing the EPQ has to
            • 13:30 - 14:00 be an argument that means you need to have at least one I've been two points of view you could have more but there must be discussion now in terms of academic writing we call this having a thesis and accountant thesis one of the most wonderful titles always is to talk about nature versus nurture for instance yeah our criminals genetic or are they
            • 14:00 - 14:30 biological have a talk with your partner next to you what do you believe our criminals board or our criminals made by society why do you think I chose that as an example it's it it's impossible not it's impossible not to have a discussion isn't it they're two very clear points of view are we born is it in our genes to be violent a lot of people believe for instance that psychopaths at or
            • 14:30 - 15:00 schizophrenia they believe that they can find a gene for those now other people would argue that absolutely nonsense clearly society plays a role in shaping people and in that case your conclusion might be that there's an interplay between genetics and between society that is an ideal question so think of your topic now to yourself have you got an argument are they clear points of
            • 15:00 - 15:30 view you're going to need to put them against each other so for instance if you wanted to do a study of Brazilian I saw what if at African influence on Brazilian fashion that's not good enough you need an argument don't you so if you had something along the lines of you know that African influences the most important thing in Brazilian fashion design then you'd be able to shape an argument
            • 15:30 - 16:00 wouldn't you so I'm going to go through and make sure that when you've got a topic we are able to shape that into a proper debate and argument in which you can have a thesis and accounts of thesis something against it and you're going to look at these rival points of view and you can have a sense of discussion if you're doing English or politics or history or economics then you'll be familiar that all essays are meant to be
            • 16:00 - 16:30 discussions in which you look at rival points of view okay also you need to ask yourself can you draw conclusions from your questions and then can you support these conclusions with evidence and that evidence has to come from research so you need to ask yourself and this is something you need to start straight away and you'll do this with your supervisor are you going to find enough evidence for instance if you're doing
            • 16:30 - 17:00 nanotechnology where you're going to get your evidence from have you looked online are you confident that there's enough out there okay that's something to think about okay straight away I will help you by making sure that the school will subscribe to databases that's what I'm working on at the moment the two biggest databases in the world are called absco and JSTOR and they will be ones that you use at University now obviously some of these are very tough
            • 17:00 - 17:30 but you'll learn wonderful research skills because when you go on a database all articles begin with an abstract does anyone know what that means Josh it's a preamble discussion that is very short to say my research concentrated on this I did this to find out whether psychopaths with genetic or not and the conclusion in my research are blah blah blah isn't that wonderful for you because when you go through the
            • 17:30 - 18:00 databases then you will quickly scan the abstracts won't you and that will allow you to find the relevant research rather than have to read long periodicals that may not be relevant to you now the key thing is that you have to analyze not describe you will know that stunt you if you just summarize and give lots of detail you are at a low skill let alone you we're going to be looking at higher skill levels of analysis and
            • 18:00 - 18:30 does the question have a simple yes or no answer if it does it's a bad question we want you to have an argument which is nuanced we believe in something called academic hedging where you're saying are on the one hand on the other hand this point of view seems to have some validity you don't want a simple conclusion you want one that is actually quite complicated and which you could examine rival points of view and finally
            • 18:30 - 19:00 you want to make sure that you're covering all of the AOS so you need to fill it familiarize yourself with that marks keep and all the time think am i showing evidence of this throughout so self assessment will be very key here are the AOS you're going to manage your time okay that will be your project manager or supervisor telling you and about you know you're doing this you're doing that that will be in the evidence of your research diary where you shown
            • 19:00 - 19:30 good problem solving remember I really want to emphasize this it's good to get frustrated and make mistakes on this project then you show resilience you show problem solving you show the ability to solve things your resources are important you see twenty percent that's going to be for your footnotes your research and making sure that everything is backed up and accurate okay ao3 has developed and realized okay this is the problem solving you see that
            • 19:30 - 20:00 that's the majority of the marks and that's majority of that will come from the production lock that's why the production of needs to be really good and then you'll get twenty percent from the review that's at the end of it where you critique yourself ok any questions about that well pretty clear do you think when your supervisor died market we will market for evidence of this throughout the project and we'll take that from the production log will take that from the project itself will take that from the
            • 20:00 - 20:30 appendices okay right here we go will the question I will the answer to the question just be a description are you just going to say what are the causes of the First World War and then tell me them if you do that you're going to school very lowly it is obvious from the question what you'll be talking about is it obvious so the question needs to be very focused and most of you now from
            • 20:30 - 21:00 the first question you got are going to narrow down because I mean I've had people come to me and say I want to write about fashion anything wrong with that let's just imagine you spend the rest of your life writing that essay you'll have scratched the surface when you so you need to be narrow don't you so that you can argue deep and show
            • 21:00 - 21:30 evidence of research so like the scientists have come to me some people have said is there a cure for cancer what we're feeling about that how much information is they're going to need to take it a ridiculous amount okay so ideally I one of my people I'll be working with his header who's working the library at the moment and we are narrowing down and narrowing down and
            • 21:30 - 22:00 hurrying down and I think in the end we're going to look at cancer but we're going to look at the use of the reovirus which is a virus that you can inject into cancer cells so what have we done she's one of the people countenance that I want to do Council to see what we've done gone through various stages going narrower and narrower and narrower then the more narrow you go the more in depth the higher the quality of your search will be of course if you go too small
            • 22:00 - 22:30 then you won't be able to find information so it's getting that balance any questions about that because everyone say what I mean okay five thousand words sounds a lot doesn't it once you start writing when I did my first Masters it was forty-five thousand words I remember thinking oh god that sounds like a lot everybody will tell you who writes a dissertation you end up thinking if only I had thousands more words and it is really hard often to fit
            • 22:30 - 23:00 your argument into five thousand words you'll end up with too many words probably and need to stop condensing it narrowing it down okay these are very bad command words how has described how has there been will there be what is how many when did talk to your partner quickly and work out why those are very bad command words okay coming back to
            • 23:00 - 23:30 these then would anyone tell me what is the problem with these command words why would you want to avoid them yeah you get short answers definitely anything else apart from that you only get short answers yeah there is no argument yes so what will happen if there's no argument there what kind of information will you be givin ya facts description exposition
            • 23:30 - 24:00 you'll be giving lots and lots of exposition this is what happened look I've got lots of information I'm going to feed you loads of information and that's not what they looking for the most important thing is that they're going to be looking that you can do something with the information yeah you've read all about the Second World War II read about the Battle of Stalingrad but now we need to see that you can actually analyze why it was that Nazis lost the best thing will be of
            • 24:00 - 24:30 course if you can take that information and argue against famous people that's the best of all that shows that you're thinking this is not an exercise in just swallowing loads of facts and information it's an exercise then taking that information doing something with being intellectual enough to analyze it to critique it and to put it together in the form of an argument okay so you can see the pattern there partly it means
            • 24:30 - 25:00 that you're just going to give chunks of information same thing again guys have a look at those and decide why you think I love these these command words and why they need to go into your titles okay guys you better get started because we having a lot of time and can I get a couple of answers there if in the last one we saw a pattern which was to encourage you to just describe and put in information how did these command words differ from those can anyone give us an answer yeah you can argue them
            • 25:00 - 25:30 would you tell me one that you like in particular to what extent is always good why because it calls for measurement and measurement cause for judgment it calls for evaluation it makes it impossible not to argue doesn't it okay so that's so much better than say a word a command
            • 25:30 - 26:00 word like describe summarize those are the dangerous ones out there yeah at what about assess the importance of what do you make of that Becky why do I like that one so same thing it's cause for assessment of course for judgment calls for evaluation okay what is the significance of what do we make of that as that is good what's it asking you to
            • 26:00 - 26:30 do prioritize facts to have a hierarchy of facts so it means you'll get the information that you'll have to put it from most important to least important again calling therefore for evaluation skills skills of analysis top top things yeah compare and contrast do we like that or not quite so much so you find
            • 26:30 - 27:00 similarities or differences that one is a little more dangerous though isn't it because that's right and you may not encourage you towards the evaluation for instance okay and evaluate obviously is really important ones ok so we've talked
            • 27:00 - 27:30 about that now exposition a word that you need to get to know is a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory now there's nothing wrong with having exposition in your epq one of the best ones I have a marked was a study into epigenetics which is the idea that you can pass things in genes from one generation to another you can actually pass experiences so in other words if
            • 27:30 - 28:00 your father was violent and abused did that can actually affect your genetic makeup was a very revolutionary idea of thinking very interesting one and that was regard to the essay title on Psychopaths this girl in the end argued that neither nature nor nurtures he argued in favor of epigenetics okay so in order to do that she had to explain to me what every genetics was so I don't
            • 28:00 - 28:30 you to think that there's no exposition there is exposition this is what every genetics means it's just that at some point you have to show the analysis you've got to do something with it an analysis is detailed examinations of elements or structures okay analyzing off it means breaking down into constituent paths doesn't it so that needs to happen how many of you come across Bloom's taxonomy before it's
            • 28:30 - 29:00 very important have it in your mind always in all of your subjects cus there are different versions of it that you see here knowledge is at the bottom and higher up is application analysis synthesis is very important synthesis is when you taking things from one place
            • 29:00 - 29:30 and you taking things from another and you pulling them together and you'll see links and patterns and at the top of courses evaluation now in other versions of Bloom's taxonomy creativity or creation is at the top but doesn't matter which one you're looking at I want you always to be thinking from the time you start the EPQ will I be demonstrating application analysis
            • 29:30 - 30:00 synthesis evaluation and creativity very useful so obviously I'm going to put this presentation on the website the wonderful thing is if you do a good epq it's going to help your English or history or politics whatever because you'll be thinking to yourself this is what examiners are looking for they're looking for higher order thinking skills okay I need to demonstrate them in my ebq will my title will my project do
            • 30:00 - 30:30 this have a look at these titles now please I meant to have them photocopied but the photocopier jam this morning can you all maybe get up and walk to the screen and have a look at them and talk about and now