3rd WEEK Begins :D

    During my group's activity, we learned seriously how to make the bibliography, and proposal.
Here is our proposal :D

Proposal for Design Process

Group                       : LOL

Members                   : Jessica (Leader)           

       Gaby (Scribe)

       Jingxi

       Pauline

Topic                        : Children’s schoolbag is too heavy

Description               :

Nowadays majority of children who go to school face the problem of heavy schoolbags. Surveys have shown that considerable number of students from primary to secondary schools often carry bags that are more than 10% body weight. The negative consequences have been yielded such as pain in back, shoulders and neck and in some cases scoliosis for young children. The first step of approaching this was to identify the stakeholders of it and continued by considering all possible factors that may have contributed in creating the problem.  

Stake holders:                                        Possible factors:

-        Students                                 - Availability of good school bag quality with reasonable price in the market

-        Parents                                  - School curriculum

-        Teachers                                - Book sizes and weight

-        School                                   - Teachers and parents control on the children
-                                                  -Students’ attitude

           Empathizing was the next step to gain a better understanding of each stakeholder’s perspective of this problem. To research into specific problems, we created framed design question to identify possible problems for which solutions can be designed to solve the problems. Here is the list of our design questions:

- What is the availability of ergonomically designed bag in the market?

- What is the price range of ergonomics school bags?

- Why are school books’ designs bulky?

- Who are involved (the most) to this problem? 

- What is the percentage of school providing locker facility or book/laptop rental facility?

Research Sources

Online article

Yap, Eve. ‘Kids’ Weighty Problem’. The Straits Times.  12 Jan. 2014. Accessed 18 Jan. 2014

Handlon, Rhonda. ‘The Family Media Guardian’. Focus On The Family. 13 Jan. 2014.

Book

Waliszweski, Bob. ‘Plugged-in Parenting’. Tindale House. 2011.

Super thankksss to Gaby, our beloved scribe !!!! 

hahahaa 

She was the one who started this proposal

and She did great, didn't she?!!

IT'S THE SECOND WEEK OF SCHOOL!!!

         TODAAYYY, my group and i have finished our first mind map for the design process class.
Based on our topic, we made it not so simple yet about to be a bit complicated.

I'll show you guys the photos hehe..

Sorry for the un-tidy words and writing hahahaa 

We held our meeting this morning at 10pm, in the library, level 6 of our beloved univ :p 

We decided students, parents, curriculums, transportation, bag's quality, and school's facilities as our main points to be ranched. 

We also got the new theme for this second week. It's empathy and sympathy. According to the video we watched in class, empathy is putting yourself in to someone else's problem. And sympathy is more like in an "ignorant" way. 

1. Empathy is the capacity to recognise emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion. 
2. Sympathy is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being. This empathic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably. Sympathy is a feeling, but the two terms have distinct origins and meanings. Empathy refers to the understanding and sharing of a specific emotional state with another person. Sympathy does not require the sharing of the same emotional state. Instead, sympathy is a concern for the well-being of another. Although sympathy may begin with empathizing with the same emotion another person is feeling, sympathy can be extended to other emotional states.

Sources : www.wikipedia.com

Pardon our selfie hahaaha 

It was me, Glory, Pauline, and Gaby. 

For the second exercise, me and Gaby will try to pretend for being parents, we decided it to the prestiges one, and the tight budget. 

HAI MY BLOGGGG!!! I'm back from my "hibernation" haha..

HAI MY BLOGGGG!!! I'm back from my "hibernation" haha..

    Hai pals, I just got back from my long longg holiday :D But it's a bit short actually. The place where i belong was always too bad to be left. *sigh*
Ok, anyway school was "welcoming" me again with so many new friends, new class, new teachers, and dawns ofcourse.
On the 4th day of my first week i learned again about creative thinking. But now its called a bit different, we called it Design Process class.
   It didn't have so many differences between them actually, because as what we've learned before, how to design, create, imagine, solve, mind map, and etcetera we'll be learning it all again in this class.


             Back to the first topic, let's talk about the class. It was quite interesting. Ms. Mariene Yang and Mr. Ang Chiat will be our lecturers for the next 14 weeks for this lessons. The first thing we did was getting in our new groups, based on our names and classes. We were united with class D hehehe...
   And yeaahh i lost the scissor paper rock kind of game, and i became the leader of my group.
And i'm in the 4th group. Me, Gaby, Glory, and Pauline.
   That first lesson gave us so many topics to choose. And we decided to pick "Children bags' too heavy." It was based on our "very quick" brainstorm and discussion on our table.
And our very first meeting will be held next week, before the class started.




      Buuutttt, my own opinion about our topic is not as simple as that "kiddy colourful backpack".
The first reason from me personally, it's a big big problem which has started since they're really young. The biggest factor is ofcourse the curriculum of the education. The light books are really rare to find nowadays. Especially those that titled history, or something as thick as a Holly Bible. The next reason is the "less care" of their parents. Every single day, the lessons from normal junior high school or even from elementary school will always change. Some parents even don't look care a lot about that. So their children just pack all their one day book package in their bags, then carry it half of day. And somehow, the bag's quality can be a big problem. Because perhaps it doesn't complete the standard quality of how it supposed to be. Then it doesn't support the weight of children's belongings as well. So some back and  humped problem will be coming soon.

And here are my secondary research according to the topic....


   "Despite parents' best efforts to protect their children from getting hurt, one of the greatest sources of potential injury which often goes unnoticed is the school backpack. According to a report in NewsWise, the school bag carried by children everyday causes pain and fatigue to as many as 50 per cent of children today. " 

    A study conducted by the American Physical Therapy Association has found that more than 50 per cent of children surveyed carry backpacks heavier than 15 per cent of their body weight. 

"Children carrying this kind of weight can develop serious back pain and other problems that can require treatment," says Avrom Gart, Medical Director at the Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders. 

"To manage the load, children sometimes arch their backs or lean forward, causing them to develop poor posture as they grow," 

  Source :   http://vustudents.ning.com
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