I think the decision making process was quite chaotic, mainly because of the fact that many people were competing to win, rather than collaborating among group. The leader who stood up in front of the class had to say "guys, just raise your hands and I will get to you" multiple times throughout this process, which it made me feel that the class wasn't acting calmly and the chance of getting a decision made was slim. I personally think all the suggestions listed were good and workable for improving my grade. I didn't have any special preference so I just accommodate with others in the class. I think it was the best thing I could do to help the class to make a 100% agreed decision.
At the end we did come up with a good decision, but we left the final exam to the discretion of Prof K which I think we didn't successfully handle the conflict well. If we broke into groups just like someone suggested in class, we would handle this problem a lot more effectively. Everyone would share his/her insights and come up with a decision as a group. The range of ideas would get filtered, leaving the best ideas on the board. Then everyone could collaborate on those ideas to make a universal decision for the class.
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Haha I love your title conflict in the house of opinions. I agree with you that any one of the choices would help all of us get a better grade. I do not believe that not saying your opinion is a good thing because you may of had a great idea and no one would of heard of it therefore we didn't get to choose it. But I do like your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteI also think if we would have broken into groups the process would have been less chaotic and frustruating.
ReplyDeleteThrough this decision making experiment, we see the final decision looked benefit and fair to everyone. I wanna say, our leader did a very good job for us.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the fact that too many people were competing to get their opinions out instead of collaborating with others. This made the whole decision making process a lot more chaotic and we wasted a lot of time on arguing. However, I also agree that dividing the class into smaller groups would have saved us a lot of unnecessary conflicts and we could have came to a conclusion more efficiently.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of breaking up into groups was a great one. I believe we would of been less chaotic and would of achieved some sort of agreement. Your title to this blog describes exactly what the situation was in the classroom and your idea of groups would have been a great solution to the problem.
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