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My PLT (Personalized Learning Task)

Kauan Oneda
Mr. Cruz
360 Wildcat 10A
June 9th, 2016
Cover Page: (Page 1)

Title of the PLT

Full Name
Supervising Teacher
Date of Presentation
Content Page: (Pages 2 and 3)

Major sections and subsections of the PLT.

Planning and Development Introductory Page: (Page 4)
What was your purpose in doing this task?

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What are your goals?
How do the areas of the IB Learner Profile relate to your PLT?
Process (or) the Design Cycle Pages: (Pages 5 to 7)
Investigating:

How did you decide what needed to be investigated?

How did you decide upon the most effective method for presenting your PLT?
What is the social significance of your inquiry?
What resources did you use in your investigations?
Have you separated useful from irrelevant (unimportant) information?
What were the main discoveries you made as a result of your investigations?

How did you prioritize your work?

What time constraints (restrictions) impacted your learning?
What steps or strategies did you plan towards achieving your goal(s)?
What possible outcomes have you predicted?

How did you implement your plans and strategies?

What techniques or applications did you sue in creating your PLT?
What challenges did you face?
What modifications did you make to your design?
Why did you make these modifications?
What shape or form did your final PLT take (Describe in detail.)

Planning:

Creating:

Evaluating:
What did you learn from your PLT?
Did you achieve your goal?
What were the strengths of your PLT?
Works cited Page: (Page 8)
Have I included only sources that I actually used in my PLT?
Am I giving credit where credit is due?
Have I formatted correctly?

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My PLT (Personalized Learning Task)

The PLT is an independent piece of research based on a topic that you select. Your whole
school life up to now has been about what you were told to learn and pretty much how you were
going to learn it and how you were going to be evaluated on what you learned. The PLT Learning
Journal is a written diary with notes and comments, drawing, and annotations regarding
problems and solutions as well as documented evidence of the work involved during each stage
of the design cycle. It becomes the first draft for the body of your reflective paper. It is
totally integrated into any design task. Is is possible and easily comprehensible to state that the
PLT, together with the Learning Journal, are the most helpful pieces of personal information to
use as guidance while reflecting and analysing a personal project. Understanding both documents
makes it easier to understand what were the intentions of the author, what was his difficulties,
and how did he overcome them.
As a beginner chess player and a chess fan, my purpose while doing this task was to
improve my chess game and strategies while allowing new players that wish to learn the
beautiful game of chess to get involved. My main goals was to show the listeners and other
interested people how much I love chess, putting effort and efficiency in my work. As students
and members of the ISC community, it is important for us to understand and put in practice the
areas of the IB learner profile. Following the guidance of those areas, such as being a thinker to
solve problems and difficulties, being an inquirer to always seek to learn more and being
reflective to learn through the experience of creating my project.

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My PLT (Personalized Learning Task)
It is possible to state that there were two main aspects affecting the decision on what
would be my topic for my personalized learning task. The first aspect is the fact that chess is
becoming one of my favorite games, helping me develop my patience thinking abilities while
still making it an enjoyable experience. The other aspect that helped my decision was the fact
that Im still a beginner chess player, seeking to help not only other how to learn chess, but to
improve what I know and still be able to learn more from this experience. As I planned to create
a chess guide to help others learn chess, my decision was to create a website, as a way to dispose
the information correctly and clearly. As chess is one of the oldest games to be still played and
such a great way to improve our abilities not only in game but in life, my decision to do a chess
guide also focused to help people to improve the society in which they live. To create my chess
guide website though, I used many sources. While most of them were chess websites from the
internet, I also decided to seek guidance of chess players, such as my mentor and ISC Teacher,
Mr. Shaddock. While searching for information in books and on the internet, I stumbled across
many kinds of information, such as tips for really experienced players and also unnecessary
information, on how to set up the board for example. Even though doubts like these might be
present in some beginners chess players, it is a information that they can easily find on the
internet. My main goal was to focus on strategies and how to get better playing the game.
Searching for information however, made me stumbled across some really useful tips and tricks,
such as new strategies and examples on how can you affect your opponent in a psychological
way, such as looking directly into their eyes.
Even though the PLT was one of the most important projects that we had to do this year,
we still had to focus on all of the other subjects taught in 10th grade. However, as the 360

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Wildcat teachers allowed us a great deal of time to understand and develop our task at school, it
was easier for me to create my personal project. Those classes given to us at school also allowed
for time not to be a problem. Since we had so much time to create your projects at school, it
wasnt necessary for me to develop my thoughts and ideas at home. As a main strategy, my focus
was to use every class as much as possible, seeking not to take work home. At first, an outcome
predicted was to be presenting a blog with a chess board. But luckily, I decided to go much
deeper, even creating an entire website dedicated to my chess guide.
To implement my strategy of using the classes at school to create a successful project, I
focused all of my time at those classes to develop my project. I decided to move always from my
friends and have a time only for myself and my project, affecting both of us positively. The
major technique that I focused during the development of my personal project was to understand
the minds of those starting to learn who to play chess. Certainly this was my major challenge. As
Ive already learned what are the basic concepts of chess are and Im already advanced at a
certain point in the terms of strategies, I had to set my mind back to understand what a beginner
chess player might think and doubt. At the start, my chess guide was supposed to be at the format
of a blog, however, while developing my project I decided that a complete website would be
much more helpful to those learning, since it would display the information in a more clear and
organized way. At the end, my chess guide ended up being displayed in a website, allowing those
seeking guidance and understanding to do so in a much precise and concise manner.
I would easily say that Ive learned many thing while creating my PLT. However, the
aspect that most brought my attention to was the fact that it is hard sometimes to understand the
point of view of others. While creating my website, there were time that I thought the
information I was displaying was unnecessary, since I already knew it. Even though I already

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knew how to process the information displayed, I had to understand that the website was not
meant for me, but instead for those interested in learning chess and getting involved in such a
beautiful game. After understand that aspect, it was possible for me to complete my work and be
satisfied with it, understanding that if someone is interested in learning chess, my website will be
truly helpful. To complement those aspects, I think that the major strength of my website is how
easily and effective it might be to those learning how to play chess.

Work Cited:
"Bobby Fischer Biography." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2013.
"The History of the World Chess Championship." The History of the World Chess
Championship. Chessgames Services LLC, 2008. Web. 02 Dec. 2013.