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2026-04-12 19:13:32 jeremy: Add C01 overflow activities for extension and alternatives Feasibility deep dive, comparative brief analysis, mock interview, risk register, hand-drawn Gantt alternative, pitch document format. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>| /dev/null .. SAT/C01-Overflow.md | |
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| + | # C01 Overflow Activities |
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| + | Useful but non-essential activities for C01 (Design Brief and Project Management). These can be used as extension work, early finisher tasks, or alternative approaches. |
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| + | ## Extension: Feasibility Deep Dive (T.E.L.O.S.) |
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| + | For students who finish their design brief early and want to strengthen their feasibility argument. |
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| + | **Activity:** Work through each T.E.L.O.S. dimension for your project: |
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| + | | Dimension | Question to answer | |
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| + | | **Technical** | Do you have the skills and tools to build this? What will you need to learn? | |
| + | | **Economic** | What resources does this need? Is it achievable with school resources? | |
| + | | **Legal** | Any data privacy issues? Licensing concerns for libraries/assets? | |
| + | | **Operational** | Will your target users actually use this? How does it fit into their routine? | |
| + | | **Scheduling** | Can you build this in the available time? What would you cut if you run out of time? | |
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| + | Write 2-3 sentences per dimension. This strengthens the feasibility section of the design brief and prepares students for probing questions in the C1-1 presentation. |
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| + | **Time:** ~20 min |
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| + | ## Extension: Comparative Brief Analysis |
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| + | For students who want to understand what separates a strong brief from a weak one. |
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| + | **Activity:** Read the Adem's Gym example and the NiceQuiz example. Create a comparison table: |
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| + | | Aspect | Brief A | Brief B | Which is stronger and why? | |
| + | |--------|---------|---------|---------------------------| |
| + | | Problem statement | | | | |
| + | | User description | | | | |
| + | | Language justification | | | | |
| + | | Feasibility argument | | | | |
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| + | Discuss with a partner. Could you improve the weaker brief? What would you change? |
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| + | **Time:** ~15 min |
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| + | ## Extension: Mock Interview (Peer) |
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| + | For students who finish Checkpoint C early and want to practice for the C1-3 interview. |
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| + | **Activity:** Pair up. One student is the "teacher," one is the "student." The teacher uses this question progression: |
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| + | 1. "Walk me through your project plan from start to finish." |
| + | 2. "Why does [specific task] come before [other task]?" |
| + | 3. "Show me a dependency. What happens if the first task is delayed by a week?" |
| + | 4. "Where is your critical path? How did you identify it?" |
| + | 5. "How will you know if your project is falling behind? What will you do about it?" |
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| + | Swap roles after 10 minutes. Give each other feedback: what was convincing? Where did you hesitate? |
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| + | **Time:** ~20 min (10 min each way) |
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| + | ## Extension: Risk Register |
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| + | For students who want to push into high-level monitoring and planning. |
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| + | **Activity:** Create a simple risk register for your project: |
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| + | | Risk | Likelihood (H/M/L) | Impact (H/M/L) | Mitigation | |
| + | |------|-------------------|-----------------|------------| |
| + | | e.g., "Can't learn API in time" | M | H | "Start with simpler version, add complexity later" | |
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| + | Identify 3-5 risks. For each, explain how your project plan accounts for it (or doesn't). This is excellent preparation for the C1-3 interview question about monitoring. |
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| + | **Time:** ~15 min |
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| + | ## Alternative: Hand-Drawn Gantt Chart |
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| + | If GitHub Projects is causing technical issues or a student works better on paper. |
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| + | **Activity:** Draw a Gantt chart by hand on A3 paper: |
| + | - X-axis: weeks (Term 2 and Term 3) |
| + | - Y-axis: tasks grouped by PSM stage |
| + | - Use coloured bars for each stage |
| + | - Mark milestones with diamonds |
| + | - Draw dependency arrows between tasks |
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| + | Photograph and commit to GitHub. This satisfies the "using software" requirement if they then transfer it to GitHub Projects, or it can serve as their annotated plan for C1-3. |
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| + | **Time:** ~25 min |
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| + | ## Alternative: Design Brief as a Pitch |
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| + | Instead of a formal written brief, the student creates a 1-page "pitch document" — visual, concise, designed to convince someone to fund/support the project. They still need to cover all the same content (problem, solution, users, language, feasibility) but in a more visual format. |
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| + | This can be done in addition to the formal brief as presentation preparation. The visual format forces students to distil their thinking. |
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| + | **Time:** ~20 min |
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| + | ## Ongoing: AI Disclosure Log Prompts |
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| + | Quick prompts students can use to update their AI disclosure log throughout C01: |
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| + | - "I asked AI to..." — What was the prompt? |
| + | - "AI produced..." — What did it generate? |
| + | - "I kept / changed / rejected..." — What did you do with it? |
| + | - "Because..." — Why? |
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| + | Example entry: |
| + | > I asked Claude to draft a feasibility section for my design brief. It produced a paragraph about technical feasibility using Python and fasthtml. I kept the structure but rewrote the specific details because Claude didn't know about Godot's limitations for my game project. I also added scheduling feasibility which Claude didn't mention. |
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| + | Remind students: the log isn't assessed separately, but it's required evidence and strengthens their interview responses. |
