2023 Literacy Week: Daily Challenges

Day 4 Challenge: Design a Room

Designing a room allows us to be creative, dream, think critically and make decisions.  The challenge today is to design one together.  There is a bit of technology involved.  You will be using a virtual room planner. Click here, after reading the instructions. The interesting part will be making decisions together.  Here’s what to do.

• Open the Room Planner from Wayfair.  You do not have to login.  You can create a room without.  You just need to login to save your room.  You can get around this by taking a screenshot of your finished room (please send to the library when completed, if you wish, so we can post it here).
• Once you stretch the size of the room you to your specifications, click “See Your Space”
• Now start creating!  You can add items, add room features, customize your room.  You have access to the whole Wayfair catalogue!
• Remember have a plan before starting.
• Need some ideas?
  • a kitchen that would feed you all,
  • a calm cove,
  • your dreamy classroom,
  • a place for all your dogs to hang out,
  • bringing the outside in,
  • a room with feels like it is in another country,
  • an exercise room.
  • a space age room.
• Challenge for intermediates: design your room on a budget. The prices from Wayfair are all included

The possibilities are endless. Who knows, some of you might become architects and designers after this. Good Luck and have fun.

Day 3: Challenge Artificial Intelligence

Questions

• For those who guessed correctly as the lady calling for the haircut, what gave it away?

• For those who guess the receptionist at the hair salon, why did you think that person was not real?

• Do you think digital assistants can become so realistic that if you got a call, you would not be able to tell that it is an AI?

• Is that a good or bad thing?

Want to know what it’s like to chat with an Artificial Intelligence? Try it here:

Day 2: Story Dice

This is from Dave Birss’ website.  Story dice is a great way to generate ideas when you are looking for inspiration to create their own story ideas.  Give your imagination a workout, flex your mental muscles as a class.

Instructions: 

• Roll the dice (you can choose 5 or 9 dice)
• Tell a story either in partners or as a class.
• Try to tell the story in the order of the pictures.
• Variations:  tell a story/poem, write a story/poem, draw a story/poem, roll the story dice and play in story workshop

Note:  You can use the dice and pictures literally or the image can represent something else.  For example, a slice of pizza could represent food in general, cutting a slice out of something or a restaurant.  The job of the dice is not necessarily to provide you with literal objects to work with but concepts to nudge your thinking in fresh directions.

Send us your story or some representation of it.  Have fun!

Day 1:  Draw My Picture Game

Listening, drawing and following instructions is literacy. For today’s challenge, you will tell someone what to draw without seeing what they’re doing, or follow drawing instructions without knowing the end product!

Here is an example of the Draw My Picture Game.  Instructions are below.  Have fun!