Opportunities and Risks
Through the course of AIF, students will come across many opportunities and chances to take a risk, but do you know what these look like?
Opportunities are those situations where you have all the elements you need to provide you with just what you need or want to know. Risks, on the other hand, involve pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and involve uncertainty about the outcome of the action taken.
Opportunities are those situations where you have all the elements you need to provide you with just what you need or want to know. Risks, on the other hand, involve pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and involve uncertainty about the outcome of the action taken.
Opportunities can look like:-
Risks can look like:-
- Contacts you already have access to such as teachers, experts you might know like mechanics, psychologists, doctors, farmers etc.
- Parents or family contacts
- EBSCO (see the section on How to use the Database)
- Information about someone to contact through one of your original contacts (Mrs Rowe's niece managed Rawlinna Station on the Nullabor)
- The school library or your local library
- Practical experiments
- Feedback from an expert that leads to more information or other experts
Risks can look like:-
- Sending emails to experts/contacts you don't know
- Asking contacts for interviews
- Trialling a practical experiment
- Creating a survey (sometimes you don't know how people will respond)
- Reaching out to people on social media
- Changing your mind about your learning intention if something is not working