Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
How can an optometrist best use technology to improve eye care ?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

My first answer to my essential question is  by using technology to view the internal structure of the eye.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
My second answer to my essential question is by using technology to help those who have refractive errors.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Refractive errors are nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism, which are the most common eye complications.
• Glasses and prescriptions are needed for those with refractive errors, and most people who visit the optometrist go for glasses.
• In order to get glasses, optometrist must first get your prescription using technology tools .

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

• Murphy, John. "New Technology: Good for Patients, Good for Business." Review of Optometry. 15 Aug. 2013. Web. 14 Jan. 2016. <http://www.reviewofoptometry.com/content/d/technology/c/42411/>.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• "What Is A: Phoropter." EyeGlass Guide. EyeGlass Guide. Web. 21 Jan. 2016. <http://www.eyeglassguide.com/my-visit/vision-testing/phoropter.aspx>
• Chapman, Bill. "How We See." Coping with Vision Loss. 1st ed. Vol. 1. Alameda: Hunter House, 2001. 272. Print.(pg.35-42).

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

In conclusion my second answer to my essential question, “How can optometrist best use technology to improve eye care?”, is by using technology to help those with refractive errors, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Many go to the optometrist in order to get glasses so this is relevant answer to my question.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?

The most important thing I learned from this interview is my mentor's view of how technology influences his field of work.  

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
My approch to interviewing has changed over the course of my senior project by the questions I ask my mentor.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2CHyS5HgX9QXzFIRm0wYTFUd3M

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I plan to make a stop motion video. I would spend 1 hour making a script, 1/2 an hour looking up fun facts about the eye, 2 hours to make paper props, and the rest of the time to make the video.
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
I will have the video and script as my evidence.
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
This topic will help me to learn more facts about the eye and to present them in a different way.
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MqB7V8CTqR6zHJc0qLDnzQCti0YKfAh39RQBHz4ppMI/edit#gid=0

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
• (a) Write: “I, Alicia Ramirez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

My mentor, Dr. Wong, helped me complete my independent component.

• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aNNDlcG9CzHrDpRoBfhQ6GMogQoCLR3r3JUnPKto_ak/edit
• (d) Explain what you completed. 

I did an extra 30 hours of mentorship for my independent component separate from my Senior Project hours.   

• INTERPRETIVE
• Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.

Shadowing my mentor and others who work in an optometry clinic is significant to my project because I get a deeper view on the things that happen in an optometry clinic. I have a log of the hours of mentorship I did. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D3TMyUXMnnmlAS8Tt_S9HroMBxlgr4yhMwRB7fsaXL0/edit#gid=0

• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.

My independent component helped me learn more about optometry by spending more time around the optometry office, and at mentorship.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

In my Lesson 2 Presentation, the thing I was most proud of was that I did not stutter or say “Umm” as much as I did in Lesson 1. I think I am proud of this presentation because I improved compared to my Lesson 1 Presentation.

2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

   AE    P       AP    CR    NC

I would give myself a P on the Lesson 2 Presentation.

b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I feel I met all requirements needed for a P in the Lesson 2 component contract.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

I think my pictures worked for me because I had examples and visuals to refer to.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I think I would better arrange my activity, with clearer instructions.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

I think my answer #2 will be about how technology helps us to cure the eye.