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During my time in social 10 we got to see our new prime minister be selected as we got to watch live. This was very fun and insightful for me as I finally understood exactly how the canadian parliament is chosen.  For the prompt I decided to make a symbol with the children ( Us ) watching the canadian elections unfold in front of us. Prompt : Generate a hand-drawn style symbol on a rough, yellowing peice of paper that shows ( angled from the back of the class ) students facing a projected image of the canadian map with different election zones

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10# Watching the Canadian Elections with Conner.

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10# Watching the Canadian Elections with Conner.

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After the american elections at the start of the year, the USA and canada were practically in a trade war for 3 months or so firing tariffs at eachother left and right. This was very interesting to watch from an economic standpoint Prompt : Generatae a group of students and their teacher looking a projector board in a standard classroom with different american canadian economical graphs displayed on the wall, include a maple leaf and a star spangled banner. Classroom is dimly lit and students are illuminated by the screen. Generate as if you are a cameraman standing at the back of the class but as a handdrawn symbol.

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 Silent ball was a fun class game we played one day where people had to catch and throw a ball across a circle of people. I loved how fast pace the was and how competitive everyone was about it. Also liked it because I won haha. Prompt - Generate a hand-drawn style symbol on a rough, yellowing piece of paper that shows high school kids in a classroom standing in a circle in a grid of desks throwing a ball around to each other

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This year I really enjoyed learning about the slave trade and a lot of african history. For the symbol I chose to generate people on a ship to represent the slave ships that made the transantlantic slave trade possible. Prompt - Generate a rusted broken chain shackle. --rusted metal material, --art gallery lighting exhibition style .The chain shackle being broken symbolises that the slave trade is over and since chains were usually used to oppress the slaves by dragging them around in chains I believe that this is a perfect symbol for this 

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The documentary we watched as a class about the couple who only ate discarded food for 3 weeks really changed my perspective on how I view food and using it to its full capacities. The statistic that 1/3 of food that is produced is wasted shocked me and made me much more conscious about my own food waste. For the symbol I generated a bin with a half eaten apple in to symbolise food waste but also a leaf sprouting from the apple to symbolise that there is still hope to fix it. Prompt : Hand drawn circular symbol of a rustic wooden bin with an apple with leaves sprouting out of it and a half eaten, decaying / old looking apple on the side. I feel like this documentary was eye opening but the moments that I put above it definitely had more of an impact on me. 

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One of my favourite activities throughout the year was when we got to draft ecological policies acting as representatives of different countries or regions. I loved the perspective of being a big government and getting to decide and barter over these policies but at the same time it feels as if we are auctioning off peoples - and the planets - well being for our own interest. That's why for the symbol I chose to have groups of people at an auction house auctioning off different parts of the earth. Some of them were made red to symbolise climate change showing that these peoples policies and actions have consequences that affect people on a smaller scale. I decided to put this activity over the food waste documentary because I feel like this made me think more about how much my life is really in the hands of policies and agreements and how important it is to vote and to give your voice on these things.  

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#4 - Drafting Ecological Policies as groups

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#4 - Drafting Ecological Policies as groups

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Learning about the Bangladeshi factories and the inhumane conditions that the people there have to work in and specifically watching the documentaries about things like the Rana Plaza factory disaster was heart-breaking. This was in contention for being #1 or #2 because all 3 of them were very informative and eye opening for me but I chose to put this one in number 3 because I feel that out of the 2 that I put above this I related to this one the least. Bangladesh ( Unlike Africa ) is a very unfamiliar context to me and I'm very grateful I got to learn about it, however, just because this is a context where I cant imagine someone that I know directly being affected - like I can for the next two - I feel as if this deserves a very strong 3rd place. For the symbol I made a rich, evil looking ceo stand over a snow globe where we can see the burning and crumbling Bangladeshi factories. I feel like the symbolism of this man controlling an entire industry really encapsulates how the Bangladeshi factory workers must feel, knowing that there livelihood and safety is 100% in the hands of some rich white man who owns a transnational corporation. Prompt:hand drawn style, a bald evil looking man,  and rectangular glasses stands over a snowglobe in which we can see a bangladeshi factory / sweatshop. this will be a crumbling building with peices of it falling off and peices of it burning and workers being seen trying to escape. make this from the perspective of inside the snow globe so we see this big ominous man, grinning and standing over us

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#3 - Learning about the Bangladeshi sweatshops

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#3 - Learning about the Bangladeshi sweatshops

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During social studies we got to watch a documentary about the Kenyan AI data workers who subject themselves to disturbing content to filter it out and so that other people don't see it. This takes the number two spot for me as it showed me how much a resource that I use so often depends on manual labour that exploited so many people, I feel like people take for granted the fact that we have the privilege to go on social media and not see the material that these Kenyan AI workers have to filter for us. I truly feel as if they are frontline soldiers on a digital battlefront. I chose to make a robot laying down and being charged up to symbolise AI as a whole and to have many Kenyan people sit around at desks and filter what goes into this robot to literally show Kenyan data workers filtering what AI can and cannot generate Prompt : hand drawn style, A massive robot with futuristic blue energy cables running to it and specifically to its brain laying down on something like a big charging mat and being connected to the energy ports like multiplpe ivs. the charging mat then blends into a modern kenyan cityscape and we see hundreds of people sitting behind desks at computers filtering the data that then goes into these energy cables  

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Learning about the Rwandan genocide and how the UN did nothing to stop it is a clear first place for me because I learnt so much about it in the Seychelles but since I was young we didn't learn about the full brutality of the violence which made this the first time in years when learning about a genocide or a war genuinely disturbed me. I feel like this is an event that isn't talked about enough whatsoever in modern history and that people focus too much on the European wars and I'm grateful that we got an opportunity to learn about it. I feel as if I put this above the two below it simply because this is violence that I could imagine happening to people I know and the thought of such atrocities happening in a place so similar to where I grew up is what makes the Rwandan Genocide take first place for me. For the symbol I chose to depict a tree growing from roots of blood to symbolise Rwanda's recovery and comeback to justice and prosperity after its bloodshed, symbolised by the red roots, during the genocide. Prompt : Dark , somber atmosphere, silhouette of a tree growing with thing blood red roots. Single light source directly above the tree.

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We watched a lot of documentaries in social studies and this one particularly was about finding different lost historical artefacts that were associated with slavery. I feel like this documentary was significant enough to make it on the list but I would not say it intrigued me like the ones I put above it. For tthe symbol I chose to make a slaves hand stick out of water to represent the historical artefacts that were uncovered during this documentary that also helped uncover the history of slavery. Prompt : hand drawn style, dark skin hand sticking out of water in a clenched fist with shackle still on hand

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#6 - Watching the "Enslaved" Documentary.

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#6 - Watching the "Enslaved" Documentary.

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Hello Conner and welcome to my digital winter count exhibition. I want to say thank you for letting students use AI models to generate symbols and art for this project and that it means a lot to me as a student when a teacher embraces AI in education. To view the wintercount properly you have to zoom out a lot with your mouse and the individually zoom into each one of the points. I didn't know if it was still a requirement to display the symbols in a spiral like a traditional blackfoot wintercount or if I could do it in a more readable way but I decided to do it in the traditional way, I hope you enjoy my exhibition.