Today you take one real moment from your collaborative problem-solving task and run it through two reflection frameworks. You are not writing about frameworks in the abstract; you are using them on something that actually happened to you.

Half a page on which method you intend to use later is not the work. Running one awkward, useful moment through STAR and through What/So-What/Now-What is. You leave holding raw material you can lift straight into ALT 3, the written reflection on your collaborative task that you begin drafting next lesson, rather than a plan about how you might write it someday.

Two frameworks, one job: turn a real collaborative-task moment into evidence you can reuse in ALT 3.

You will build one shared sample moment through STAR together as a class first, agreeing the wording line by line until each part could be checked by someone who was not in the room.

Shared sample moment to use if the class needs one: During the developing stage, the group of four could not agree whether to keep a low-cost pop-up or a longer workshop series. Two people dug in while twenty minutes disappeared, until one member wrote both options on the board with cost, who it served, and one risk each, and asked the group to score them silently before talking.

Then you stay with that same sample for two or three minutes and talk it through as What / So-What / Now-What, so you can see both shapes side by side. These are the four openings you finish in your own words:

• What: what specifically happened in that moment
• So what for you: what it meant for your role or learning
• So what for the group or the work: what changed for the plan, trust, or outcome
• Now what: what you will do differently next time

Your own work (the portfolio build): create or open your ALT 3 Framework Choice document in your Strand 2.1 folder (a new blank file is fine if it is not there yet; filename: ALT3 Framework Choice). Today's output is both framework runs plus a one-line choice. Have beside you whatever you kept from the collaborative task itself — your group decision records, task log or meeting notes — and if you have none, work from what you remember of one occasion. Pick one real moment: the day the group could not agree, the person who did not deliver what they promised, or the point the whole idea had to change. If nothing loud went wrong, use a quiet moment instead (who spoke least, what got dropped, when the plan last changed). Still one specific occasion, still what you personally did. Write that moment both ways:

• STAR in five lines (Situation, Task, Action, Result, plus one line on what a reader would still need to know)
• What/So-What/Now-What in five lines (What, So what for you, So what for the group or the work, Now what, plus one line on what a reader would still need to know)

Then choose: which framework got more out of this moment, and write one line on why that one suited it. You may split: STAR is often sharper on a single decisive action; What/So-What/Now-What when something unfolded. Either answer is defensible if the evidence is real.

This document is raw material for your ALT 3 draft, not a method essay.

Talk these through with the person beside you, then keep any notes you want in your ALT 3 Framework Choice document.

• Which framework got more out of your moment, and what does that tell you about the kind of evidence your collaborative task actually produced?
• If you had to open your ALT 3 draft with one paragraph tomorrow, which five lines from today would you lift first, and what would still be missing?

• STAR and What/So-What/Now-What as tools you use on real moments, not methods you only describe
• A shared class pass through STAR so the shape of a checkable line was clear
• Your own collaborative-task moment written both ways in ALT 3 Framework Choice
• A defended choice about which framework got more out of that moment, ready as raw material for the ALT 3 draft