Why I like the "what's your impact'?" question in final jury critics?
In short: it forces you to think about what type of impact your project has and then prove it with evidence.
One of the questions that gets asked a lot in the jury presentations in the Master Service Design of the HSLU is:
"What's the impact?"
At first I didn't like that question. But I slowly got to like it when you look at it from a wide perspective.
Knowing this question will come pushes learners to reflect on the impact they want to create. That's a good thing. Especially if it pushes the learners to explore what type of impact they are interested in. Do they want:
- personal impact
- social impact
- economical impact
- organizational impact
- etc.
Do they want to have a small but deep impact or a very large surface level impact?
Not every learner, speciality and project defines impact in the same way. And this question of impact pushes the learner to say: "for me, in my context, with my goals and my philosophy here is the type of impact I pursued."
Once you have that answer you can then argument it, show evidence for it, tell the story of it.
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