Decision Making

Blog Topic # 3: Decision Making

Well on Monday’s class activity on decision making process I have used the accommodation behave to handle the chaos. Accommodation meaning allowing others to decide for you when your interests are not critical to you. I have chosen that because I was kind of happy with my grade. So therefore I let my fellow classmate decide what changes they want to make on the second exam that will benefit them or help them to get their desire grade in this class.

Well that doesn’t mean that I didn’t bother to do anything. I have participated through the entire decision making process in order to finalized the bill with 100% students agreement. I was agreed on some proposals and disagreed on some to get the best result possible. So after discussing about it with the entire class; I believe we have came to better conclusion on how we want our 2^nd and 3^rd exam to be.

Yes I have seen students using other methods such compete to win and compromise but I haven’t seen avoidance. Everybody cooperates to get to best solution. It was possible because we all value the reward and therefore we effectively use the scarce resource.

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

Blog Topic # 2: An Eggs- cellent Way to Plan

Well our goal was to build an effective egg protection device out of eight straws, two feet tape and an egg. We understood the deadline that it has to happen within 30 minutes time limit; 20 minutes to plan and 10 minutes to act. Most of all we value the reward that we will get which is 10 points added our final grade if we can create an effective device that will protect the egg from breaking.

We all valued the reward and played an effective role to accomplish the goal. During our planning process; we all heard each other ideas about creating the device. We also had them draw their idea in the paper to see how is going to look. Then as a group we decided one which looked more effective. Then we divided the tasks to each member then as soon as we got the resources; we start working on the project. Even though there was scarcity on resources but we effectively managed them.

Well we were little nervous because of the time limit to complete the task. We were literally shaking when we tie the egg and straws together. Therefore our straws were uneven and came out little different than it looks on the drawing. As a result we were little afraid that if it was going the pass the evaluation process, But thanks God that it did pass.

Well we choose this structure out of several other alternatives because we all believed that it will be the most effective one to accomplish our goal.

So after we done creating the device we actually test it on our own to see how effective it was. We were satisfied and strongly believed that it will pass the evaluation process. Finally it did. So thank everyone in our group for being part of such an effective team.