Even before I had ever started school I was a right-brained kind of person; creative and intuitive. I took to and had a passion for art and fashion and basically all things creative by the time I was a toddler. Because I am such a  creative person, thinker, and learner I struggled with school and its conventional structure and forms of teaching. School has always been a challenge for me and it continues to be. I have never been particularly good at studying and test taking, and found that the traditional forms and ways schools assess whether you understand course material is unfair and not suited to many and most people like me. Although I struggled with school and its traditional structure and tendency to enforce conventional learning skills, I never had a problem with working hard. Being a hard worker is probably if not the biggest reason as to why I am where I am now. I have always wanted to do well in school despite the fact that I struggle with a learning disability and have had trouble with schools conventional format and expectations. Often times, especially in high school, but even sometimes in college, feel as though school prevents me from being able to showcase and display my personal strengths and abilities due to the structure and traditional format that it follows.

This being said because I am right-brain kind of person I am social and enjoy group activity and collaboration with others. I have always enjoyed and got the most out of group work because it allows individuals to express their ideas and thoughts in a larger setting and can help the group as a whole strengthen by learning everyone else’s opinions and thoughts.

The lab we had last week looked a website called hypothesis.is. This website is a program that allows students/teachers/the public to annotate readings/articles and express their ideas and thoughts. Other people are then able to view these annotations and add comments to the original annotations or add their own annotation. I enjoyed using hypothesis.is because it allowed me to perceive and understand my classmates interpretations/ideas on a subject we were all presented with. We were then able to read and offer additional commentary to our fellow students by responding/commenting on their annotations. I found this website to be very useful because it promotes and encourages open mindedness and allows individuals to look at and recognize things they may not have noticed at first glance/prior to reading other people’s interpretations. I think one of the best ways to learn is to look at and interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts, because it helps you to grasp concepts and better understand material on a deeper level. hypothesis.is is a technological platform that allows people to work “as a group” with out actually having to be next to or in the same room as everyone. I think this platform is a useful tool that allows people like me who struggle with the traditional/conventional structure of school because it is a creative and original idea in which people can work together to develop and spread ideas, in a way that helps people to better understand concepts and material.