AP Seminar Oral Defense Questions and answers 2023/2024

AP Seminar Oral Defense QuestionsDescribe how the content of team presentation was changed as a result of group discussion. - correct answer At the beginning, the slides were very unclear and scrambled. But, after team discussion, we organized the slides in a way that would be easy to comprehend for the audience and for us. It took many hours of discussing where the slides would go and how we would set it up, but it was worth it in the end. Stella, how did the group decide to include Student B's perspective/lens/conclusion into the overall presentation? - correct answer (k)- Kamryn provided some great points about how education can be affected by different social standards and cultures. As you saw in the presentation, some cultures prioritize working and keeping the family stable over good education for their children. That problem really opened my eyes thanks to Kamryn's research. (a)- Avery did a lot of helpful research that helped to build our TMP. When discussing the limitation presented in this project, there is a large focus on funding and economics talking about how it is hard to afford or how certain countries refuse to take money from others. This relates back to the economic lens and Avery's research. Stella, give one specific way that your thinking changed as a result of learning about Student B's findings. - correct answer (k)- Kamryn's findings changed the way I thought about my lens because her take on the cultural lens when she discussed gender inequality in developing countries. That made me change the way I thought about the studies I read about because what if they were mainly focused on education for men? Or just boys and men while they're excluding girls? This made me take a second look at my research to make sure it was accurate. (a)- Avery's findings changed the way I thought about the historical lens when she discussed some countries not being able to afford Blended Learning; it made me realize that putting this solution into effect isn't going to be as easy as I thought. In the future, what change would you make to your group norms, and how would you expect that to improve the team presentation? - correct answer At the beginning of the project, we had set rules that we made with each other: meet on certain days, no phones, get a certain amount of work done on a certain deadline, and ,most importantly, work together. In the future, I would say we should be more on task when we met because there were some distractions but the main one was our phones. It will make