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Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
It's the end of the year and exams are about a week away. While our time in class is now spent studying, the two classes before were spent on our mini lessons. We were each assigned a topic or concept to teach to the class. We all spoke in front of the class, and many of us made powerpoint presentations or demonstrated applications on the whiteboard.

For my mini lesson, I had to explain the difference between heat and temperature, demonstrate it through and illustration, and teach how to convert Kelvin into Celsius. My topic was relatively simple, but even simple things require clarity and precision to teach. I made a powerpoint with a stop motion video to demonstrate the difference between heat and temperature, and I had extra slides with the conversion formula and practice problems. I knew in my head what it was I was trying to convey, but it occurred to me that it wasn't enough. For one to understand the difference between heat and temperature, one must obviously first know what head and temperature are. In my head, this was a given, but I realized that these lessons were review of things that we might have forgotten, and there was no harm going over what they were again. So I added slides that explained what they were, and I believe they really benefitted my presentation.

Everyone else did a good job on their mini lessons as well. The concepts we learnt throughout the year were quickly refreshed in my memory. I believe this has to do with the fact that they were communicated with clarity and precision, and that was all I needed to be reminded. I learned that to communicate with clarity and precision, one must think with it first.

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