Copy - HPQ PRESENTATION

MY HPQ

By Charan Botchu

How technology and video games have affected our society

01 ∣My Topic

07 ∣ What I would do next time

05 ∣Planning

04 ∣Research

06 ∣Setbacks

03 ∣Initial Ideas

02∣The Title

Index

My Topic

The Environment

Space

Medicine

How did I choose my Topic ?

I had many different ideas on what my topic should be about like:

Engineering

Technology

The Title

How did I pick my title ?

I thought of different titles for the different topics I wanted to do it on like:

• (Space) - Is it possible for aliens to exist?
• (Environment) - Evaluating the sustainability of renewable energy
• (Medicine) - Is it worth becoming a doctor?
• (Technology) - How would Video Games affect a human ?
• (Engineering) - Will Artificial Intelligence be responsible for all engineering in the future?

• Doesn't link to closely to my other GCSE subjects unlike the other potential topic ideas.
• I love technology and I am especially interested in its effects because I use a form of technology in one way or another every day.

Why I chose my title

• How have technology and video games have affected our society

• How Technology has affected our scociety

• How Video games have affected our mind and body

My Title Progression

• How Video Games have affected Humans

Initial Ideas

What were my initial ideas ?

• I already knew my project topic and title
• So I then asked my peers and my supervisor about what I needed to do next.
• There were many tasks I needed to complete so I just listed them plainly.
• The most significant tasks I thought to complete first were the Project journal and essay.
• I thought to write an initial draft before my actual final essay.

Objectives of my HPQ

Use my resources effectively and reference them in where appropriate in my project.

Produce a highly detailed essay using my topic title

Record all of my project in a concise and detailed project log

Research

Referencing and scources for research

My main sources include:

• WIRED
• Digital trends
• Tech radar
• Statista.com (For Stats)

For referencing, I used Harvard referencing as suggested by my HPQ supervisor and centre coordinator. To write my essay, I preferred to use word over other writing platforms as it had the referencing style built in.

Planning

How did I plan ?

• To be time efficient, I chose to document all my work directly into my Project Q whilst also writing down key deadlines alongside.
• I used the Eisenhower Matrix method to organise these tasks so that I knew which tasks to do first. This was suggested by a guest speaker, Dr Richard Penny.
• Because I had used time effectively, I was able to stick to my deadlines most of the time and as a result, I was able to to finish the early stages of my project early.
• I procrastinated afterwards elongating the time required for writing my final essay.

Setbacks and Challenges

Setbacks and Challenges

• Procastination
• biggest issue - would sit down to do HPQ but then end up doing something else
• Referencing
• didn't reference sources
• many unreliable ones
• had to go through again to reference
• productivity
• would spend the whole lesson researching 1 source or writing 1 journal entry
• wasted so much time on making my journal look really good

What I would do next time

Lastly I would choose a bit more of a narrower topic instead of a broader one like my current HPQ title.

• Productivity
• utilize smaller sections of time throughout the day
• organize your journal more effectively so that its easier later on
• start research as early as possible
• Not ignoring

• Reference
• Manage sources better at the start
• check for credibility and avoid heavily opinion based sources

What would I do next time?

• Procastination
• Not leave the majority of the HPQ to do in year 10
• Get distracted less whilst doing research or writing
• Stay focused on the precise goal and not on time-wasting exercises that didn't achieve much

Thank you for listening! Any Questions ?