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Marble Game Reflection Journal
You will be provided with a marble in Workshop 2. Trade that marble for items of increasing value over the duration of the semester. Seek to increase the value of each traded item until your final trade, which should occur before the end of semester.
Task: You are required to write a 1,500-word reflection on your experience of participating in the Marble Game throughout the semester.
As part of your reflection you must report the items that you traded, your reasoning for seeking each trade, how you created value through your trades up to your final trade, and what the process of creating value felt like for you. The reflection needs to include the story of the trades made throughout the semester and the associated value of holdings at each trade. The reflection also needs to share your personal insights from AT LEAST 2 of the 4 contemporary issues covered of: Entrepren******ial Mindset, Transformative Innovation, The Crowd, and Entrepren******ial Ecosystems. (PLEASE USE 2-3 Contemporary issues)
What is a reflection?
Reflective practice is one way in which a person can develop a repertoire of knowledge and ability, which can be drawn upon in future situations (Schon, 1983). Your understanding of the impact the Marble Game has on yourself, and how your experience/s link to some or all of the contemporary issues covered in this subject, will contribute to the development of important s******s and knowledge currently sought by industry and professions.
You are advised to regularly blog your reflections of the experience of this task to help you “keep track" of your feelings and discoveries throughout the semester, and to give you material to draw upon in writing your reflection submission. You can use the Personal Reflection site on Blackboard as the repository for your weekly (or regular) blogs.
When writing your reflection for submission, ensure you include as headings the three components below. Beneath each heading are some prompting questions that may assist you respond to each heading. (You do not need to answer these questions in your reflection submission, they are simply prompts to get you thinking about your experience.)
1. Identify an experience - What happened? (maximum 500 words). Describe what happened for you preparing and participating in creating value from an initial marble. What struck you about this experience? Reflect on the process of getting going, on doing the trades, approaching people to trade, how you decided what to do and where to trade, how you felt during the different stages of the trading process. Consider how you experienced this process or felt about doing the trades, particularly in the context of one or more themes of this workshop.
2. Analyse the relevance of the experience - So What? (maximum 500 words). What does this mean? Why do you think this happened? How does this relate to the material you are studying? Does this support what we learned in class or not? How does this connect to your understanding of any of the contemporary issues? In what specific ways are concepts you have studied and your specific experience the same or different?
3. Apply the learning to your personal or professional life - Now what? (maximum 500 words. What have you learned from this? Now what will you do differently? What do you need to explore further? How will you think about this topic differently? What did you learn through this experience? About yourself, about others, about this course, about your major field of study? What is now evident to you that was not before the discussion? What might you do now with this learning?