Thinking+Interdependently

Thinking  Interdependently

 //Some people have underdeveloped social skill and struggle to work in groups. // //They seem unable to contribute fully in group situations and either let someone // //do all the work or they hog all they work. To work in a group, you have to be // //willing and open to feedback, you have to be willing to learn and grow and you // //have to be willing to give up an idea and work with someone else's. Take care // //of each other. Share your energies with the group. // //"No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it." - Willie Unsoeld //

﻿I believe everyone is unique in someway. Everyone possess a skill or talent that no one else has. In order for a group to function to its full potential, every member must help. As learned in Econ, a nation always benefits through trade, no matter what, even if one nation has an absolute advantage in all ways. I like to apply this to thinking interdependently because even if one person is better than the rest, the group can still be come better through teamwork and working interdependently. During my rock candy experiment with Rob and Emily, we had to work together and think interdependently in order to get the most out of our work. We assigned each other jobs in order to have our group work better together. Rob was in charge of video taping, Emily was in charge recording the data, and I was in charge of doing the experiment itself. As we had named these roles for each other, in the end, we all did a little bit of everything. Rob video taped at first while both Emily and I started making the mixtures. Then I started videotaping while Emily and Rob started doing the solutions. After creating our solutions, our rock candy never formed. We didn't start blaming each other, we fell together as a team. We came to realize that there was not enough sugar inside each solution so we started adding more sugar. We each became in charge of pretty much a different solution. After the addition of more sugar, the rock candy still hadn't formed. Not placing the blame on anyone, we went back to come up with new solutions. Mrs. Knowles kindly granted us with the knowledge of boiling each solution until the water had evaporated. We immediately proceeded into boiling the solutions. At first I thought that we should be boiling the whole solution to get be able to form larger rock candy. Emily suggested that if we use a smaller amount of solution the faster it would be to evaporate the water. We started with both large and smaller solutions. It turns out that Emily was right indeed. Our group felt that we should have tried both ideas, not leaving any team member feeling left out. In the end our rock candy finally formed due to our groups teamwork and thinking interdependently.  [] 